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Runnymede Trust Report on Racism against Women at Work: Broken Ladders

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This report, written in collaboration with the Fawcett Society, found that three-quarters of women of colour experience racism at work. It is the norm that they are forced to endure harmful, pervasive and entrenched racism at every stage of their career journey. As a result, many ‘change themselves’ to fit in: they change their language, their…
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Confronting Injustice: Racism and the Environmental Emergency

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This report from Greenpeace and the Runnymede Trust argues that black, indigenous, and people of colour bear the brunt of an environmental emergency that, for the most part, they did not create, yet their struggles have repeatedly been ignored by those in positions of power. Furthermore, systemic racism operates worldwide to produce inequalities in housing,…
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Good and Bad News around the World – August 2022 Update

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Good News World President Biden took executive action in July to protect access to abortion. It directs agencies to work with medical providers and insurers to protect the privacy of women who seek or utilise abortion services, asks the Federal Trade Commission to protect the privacy of those seeking online information about abortion, and establishes…
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Good and Bad News in Europe – August 2022 Update

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Good News Europe At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the staff at TV Rain in Russia resigned on air and fled the country. They are now relaunching the channel and its immediate priority is to challenge official propaganda on Ukraine. Germany has agreed to return sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.…
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Good and Bad News in Britain – August 2022 Update

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Good News Britain The government has paused deportations to Rwanda until the new leader of the Conservative Party (and hence Prime Minister) is elected. The Divisional Court has granted the application to adjourn the legal review of the legality of deportations to Rwanda until September.  The Home Affairs Committee has said that there is no…
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Worth Registering for

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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, War on Want and Campaign Against Arms Trade are hosting a seminar on Zoom on 9 August at 6.00pm called Barclays: Banking on Apartheid. Research has shown that Barclays Bank provides loans and other financial services to companies supplying Israel with military technology used in the repression of Palestinians. Barclays Bank…
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Human Rights in Egypt

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Authorities in Egypt are actively targeting human rights defenders, opposition politicians and other activists through unlawful arrests and prosecutions. Thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained and enforced disappearances and torture continue. Alaa Abdel Fattah, an icon of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, is now a British citizen (via his mother’s nationality) and has spent most of…
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The US Supreme Court and the Death Penalty

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In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment because it was used in a discriminatory manner against the poor and minorities. However, in 1976, it ruled that the death penalty per se was not unconstitutional because it could serve the social purposes of…
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Lithuania: Forced Out or Locked Up – Refugees and Migrants Abused and Abandoned

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Between November 2021 and May 2022, AI conducted dozens of interviews with refugees and migrants in Lithuania who had attempted to enter from Belarus. In March 2022, a delegation from AI also travelled to Lithuania. They visited two detention centres, conducted interviews with detainees, spoke with relevant authorities and representatives of humanitarian and civil society…
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Report by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

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This report, an Inspection of the Initial Processing of Migrants Arriving via Small Boats between December 2021 and January 2022, published recently after a three-month delay, focused on protecting the border through security checks and the identification and safeguarding of vulnerable people. It said that ‘these migrants crossed the Channel in dire circumstances. Many were…
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