Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
Action for Race Equality with Sir Stephen Timms MP for East Ham, hosted an important roundtable event in Parliament focused on addressing unemployment disparities faced by young people from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Mixed heritage backgrounds …
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Action for Race Equality today announces that the National Independent Advisory Group (NIAG) will be wrapping up its criminal justice activities under the EQUAL banner/branding. The announcement comes after 5 years of EQUAL’s work influencing …
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In recent years much of our work addressing racial inequality in the criminal justice was through the EQUAL programme which had its roots in the Young Review, 2014. ANNOUNCEMENTAction for Race Equality provided independent Secretariat support for …
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Six years on from the landmark Lammy Review (2017) into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) individuals in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) [1], new research reveals compelling evidence that race and ethnicity …
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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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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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 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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