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Proportion of remand prisoners who are minority ethnic rises 17% in six years
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The likelihood that a prisoner held on remand is from a Black or minority ethnic background has increased by 17% over six years, new figures have disclosed. Data from the Ministry of Justice for England and Wales also...
After years of debate, California high schools will teach ethnic studies. But whose stories get told?
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Two years ago, California set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for its high schools. The state’s department of education had no idea how heated the debate would get. More than two years, multiple versio...
Ecuador abortion laws discriminate against minority ethnic women – report
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Gladys, an indigenous woman from rural Ecuador, went to hospital after injecting poison into her stomach to end her pregnancy. Doctors went straight to the police, and she was sentenced to two months in jail for havin...
IFS: England’s student loan change to hit poor and minority ethnic people harder
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Young people from low-income or minority ethnic families are the most likely to miss out on a university education if the government goes ahead with plans to restrict student loans in England, secondo la ricerca. UN...
Businesses may be forced to reveal pay gap between ethnic minority and white staff
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Companies could be ordered to disclose any pay gap between white employees and their minority ethnic colleagues under reforms supported by Boris Johnson’s race equality advisers. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Dis...
Ufficio a casa: new deportation law may discriminate against ethnic minorities
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Internal report reveals risk to migrant rough sleepers in crackdownThe Home Office has admitted that a new immigration rule to criminalise and deport migrant rough sleepers may discriminate against ethnic minorities, ...
Birmania: ethnic armed group seizes military base near Thai border
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A prominent ethnic armed group in Myanmar says it has captured a military base near the Thai border, as clashes escalated days after the junta chief committed to immediately end violence in the country. The junta has ...
New heights: the minority ethnic hiking clubs opening up rural Britain
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“It felt like we were the first black people ever to be up there. There must have been at least 200 people at that cafe on the top of Mount Snowdon and everyone was white. I was very proud of myself. I was like: ‘Yeah...
Report shows fourfold rise in minority ethnic characters in UK children’s books
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The proportion of children’s books featuring a minority ethnic character has almost quadrupled in the last four years, according to a new survey – but researchers say “we are not yet at the point where children of col...
Ethnic minorities ‘doing better than white majority’ in many areas, says race commission chair – live
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Tony Sewell, who chaired commission, brushes aside suggestions he was hired because he previously said there was no institutional racism
UK doubles number of people from minority ethnic backgrounds in prominent roles
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The number of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in prominent public positions has more than doubled in the past four years, according to analysis from an influential campaign group. C'erano 73 nero, Asian, un...
Facebook ‘lets vigilantes in Ethiopia incite ethnic killing’
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Facebook is under renewed scrutiny this weekend, accused of continuing to allow activists to incite ethnic massacres in Ethiopia’s escalating war. Analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Obse...
Twenty-five ethnic Pamiris killed by security forces in Tajikistan protests
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Almeno 25 people were killed on Wednesday by security forces in Tajikistan during a protest in the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO), where the Tajik regime has targeted the Pamiri ethnic minority. The de...
Nice guidance to induce minority ethnic pregnancies earlier condemned as racist
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Proposed guidance that recommends inducing labour at 39 weeks in pregnant women from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds has raised concerns from doctors and midwives and been branded “racist” by activists. Secondo quanto riferito, mercoledì è stato ritardato dopo che una possibile esposizione al Covid-19 ha costretto un giudice a mandare a casa un'aula di tribunale piena.
How China went from celebrating ethnic diversity to suppressing it
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China’s mass detention of Uyghur Muslims – the largest of a religio-ethnic group since the second world war – is not the inevitable or predictable outcome of Chinese communist policies towards ethnic minorities. I’ve ...
Birmania: US orders diplomats to leave as coup spurs ethnic tensions
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The United States has ordered the departure of non-essential diplomats from Myanmar, amid growing violence following the military coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Daily protests demanding the restoration...