Commenting on today’s Public Accounts Committee report on increasing employment rates for ethnic minorities, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Jenny Willott said: "Labour’s welfare policies have been neglecting hard to reach groups for a decade and ethnic minorities are sadly no different. This situation is dramatically worse for ethnic minority women. "The training ...

Green councillor calls for action on report showing regulation authority bias against lawyers from ethnic minorities.

Green councillor calls for action on report showing regulation authority bias against lawyers from ethnic minorities

Mark Isherwood AM highlights concerns over low levels of ethnic minority staff working for Labour-Plaid administration.

The glass ceiling preventing talented black and minority ethnic managers from stepping up into top executive jobs is still rigidly in place despite a range of high-profile government diversity initiatives over the last few years, according to research. Boardrooms across the public and private sectors remain stubbornly white, says a report, Race to the Top, by the charity Business in the Community ...

THE Welsh Assembly Government was attacked yesterday for failing to put people from ethnic minorities in leadership positions.

Obama might have shown than a black man can become president but over here the most basic rungs of local government appear to be out of reach to most minority ethnic candidates. Harriet Harman this week pointed out that only around 150 out of 19,000 councillors across England are minority ethnic women. This is actually a fall on two years ago when the figure stood at 164. It means minority ethnic ...

Ethnic minority groups are at the forefront of digital communications in the UK says Ofcom, with high levels of mobile phone, internet and multichannel television take-up. But, despite this, many people from ethnic minority groups lack confidence finding content online and are concerned about content delivered on digital communications, new research from Ofcom reveals.

Ethnic and religious minorities in Europe continue to suffer from discrimination and prejudice and face disadvantages in a whole host of areas, from employment and education to housing and policing, a report published yesterday (3 December) by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) reveals.

This is the widely-reported inference of statement made by Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, who is of the opinion that ‘because Muslims are a religious minority in Britain and also often from ethnic minorities, their faith should be given different coverage to that of more established groups’. Different? Hindus and Sikhs are also religious minorities also from ethnic minorit...