The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, yesterday told the home affairs committee that politicians need to be wary of “casual stereotyping” of racial groups. He was referring to recent comments made by former Home Secretary, Jack Straw, on the BBC’s...
The British Transport Police website informs that three EDL supporters have been fined after being found guilty of subjecting rail passengers to “serious racist abuse.” From the BTP website: “Tracey Hurley (33), Stuart Parr (28) and a 17-year old youth, who cannot be named for legal...
The Observer on Sunday reported that religious leaders and theologians called “highly dangerous” the decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to leave Religious Education off the list of GCSEs that will go toward forming the proposed new ‘English baccalaureate’, especially given the...
The BBC yesterday reported that a second person has been arrested on suspicion of burning the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre last week. The Daily Mail reported last week that a 32 year old man was originally arrested on suspicion of using ‘racially aggravated threatening words or...
Israel’s inquiry into the conduct of its commandos who raided the Mavi Marmara in May last year and killed nine Turkish aid activists was released this weekend. No surprise that the report exonerates Israeli soldiers of any culpability in the shooting of members of the aid convoy, one of whom...
Today’s Guardian reports on documents leaked to Al Jazeera and verified by the paper which show: • The scale of confidential concessions offered by Palestinian negotiators, including on the highly sensitive issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees. • How Israeli leaders...
ENGAGE have submitted a contribution to the review of the Press Complaints Commission’s Editors’ Code of Practice. The Code, which forms the basis of media standards overseen by the PCC, is under annual review by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee. Read ENGAGE’s submission here.
Reactions to Lady Warsi’s speech at the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture last Thursday have been widespread, receiving copious amounts of coverage in news reports and commentaries in the national dailies (see Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Independent and the...
Cabinet Minister and Chairman of the Conservative Party, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, delivered the 2011 Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture yesterday at the University of Leicester in which she highlighted that Islamophobia has become widespread and socially acceptable in Britain. She told the...
The Daily Express today reports on a question raised by Clive Efford, MP for Eltham, at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday asking why the PM had not “fulfilled his manifesto commitment” to ban the group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). The Prime Minister, not mentioning HT in his answer,...
