Action for Race Equality
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Action for Race Equality (ARE) is now recruiting an experienced and passionate Head of Policy to lead on our criminal justice work. ARE works collaboratively to improve outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic and Muslim communities in the …
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Action for Race Equality is delighted to be supporting Why Me? in their brand new Youth Justice Project. Why Me? aims to increase access to Restorative Justice for people affected by crime and conflict in England and Wales. But what is it all …
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EQUAL has joined forces with 11 voluntary, community and equality organisations in an open letter to Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and Deputy Mayor Baroness Beverley Hughes who oversees the city's Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and …
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We are delighted to announce that Maithreyi Rajeshkumar has joined Action for Race Equality as EQUAL's Head of Policy. We extend a warm welcome to Maithreyi, who will now be steering our policy work in criminal justice. Previously at Agenda …
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Today, Action for Race Equality, EQUAL and the Criminal Justice Alliance have written a joint open letter to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, on the recruitment of the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Together, we are urging for a recruitment …
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ARE's CEO, Jeremy Crook reflects on the UK’s history of institutional racism and the legacy of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry report, following Sir William Macpherson's death last year. The collective failure of an organisation to provide an …
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A year after the launch of the Government’s Race Disparity Audit, the Ministry of Justice provided an update on its response to David Lammy’s review into the treatment of and outcomes for Black Asian and minority ethnic groups in the criminal justice …
In March 2020 the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) published ‘Tackling Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: 2020 Update’. This update sets out the work that has taken place since the Lammy Review recommendations published in …
Fighting Knife Crime London was launched on 1st June 2021 to address the causes and effects of knife crime and all forms of violence in Greater London. Alongside its solutions-focussed network, it curates a quarterly magazine as a …
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Bob Marley was the master of lyrics that would stay lodged in the memory for generations. One of his classic lines was “who feels it knows it”. Stop and search, and particularly the dichotomy between the conventional wisdoms that …
National Probation Service London is committed to developing a productive and supportive relationship with a network of London based Black and Asian-led voluntary and community sector organisations as a part of their wider commissioning and EDI …
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How will the enhancement of police powers in light of Covid-19 impact on BAME communities? The worldwide Corona pandemic and the UK government’s response to it has impacted every aspect of our lives, from the way we work (from home), to the way we …
Across March - July 2021, EQUAL, in partnership with Liberty, hosted five free Legal Action workshops for organisations supporting Black, Asian, and minority ethnic people, and Muslim and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the criminal justice …
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In July 2021, seven-time World Formula 1 champion Sir Lewis Hamilton, MBE, delivered on a commitment he made back in 2020, with the publication of the report from The Hamilton Commission. The background 2020 was the year that the murder of …
In May 2021, Criminal Justice Alliance brought forwards a super-complaint on the harms caused by s.60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. The complaint outlines that Section 60 is harmful, ineffective, inadequately scrutinised and …
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