White male culture dominates police, says equality review

Alan Travis, home affairs editor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 5 April 2011 20.40 BST

Neyroud report says greater diversity ‘would transform attitudes’ and urges qualifications to boost quality of recruits

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/05/white-male-culture-dominates-police?CMP=twt_gu

The Neyroud review quotes estimates of 11 years before there is 7% of black and minority ethnic officers in senior ranks of the police.

The [...]

Churchill’s Asian spy princess comes out of the shadows

By Divya Talwar Producer, BBC Asian Network

Britain’s Asian spy Noor Inayat Khan was shot by the Nazis in 1944 after being betrayed

“Liberte!” – That was the last word spoken by the heroine of Churchill’s elite spy network before being executed by her Nazi captors.

On 13 September 1944, the glamorous British agent, [...]

Black Environment Network

BEN is established to promote equality of opportunity with respect to ethnic communities in the preservation protection and development of the environment

BEN proposes there is no such thing as a pure environmental project – a so called pure environmental projects is one which has rejected its social and cultural context. BEN therefore works [...]

Child asylum-seekers targeted in Home Office budget cuts

By Robert Verkaik, Home Affiars Editor, The Independent on Sunday Monday, 11 October 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-asylumseekers-targeted-in-home-office-budget-cuts-2103184.html

Thousands of child asylum-seekers are to be removed from Britain under savage budget cuts being drawn up by the Home Office ahead of this week’s comprehensive spending review.

A briefing document sent to ministers sets out detailed proposals [...]

The asylum seekers who survive on £10 a week

They can’t work, they can’t claim benefits, they have nowhere to live. And their only means of survival is one £10 food voucher a week. Four failed asylum seekers tell their desperate stories.

Since this era of financial austerity began, newspapers and magazines have hurried to publish advice on how to get by on a [...]

Devon & Cornwall Refugee Support

Why We Need Your Help

Although the Asylum Support Agency provides for housing and living expenses for asylum seekers whilst their claims are active, this support is erroneously withdrawn on frequent occasions.   DCRS advocates for the reinstatement of this support, but in the meantime we help with subsistence through these temporary periods of destitution. [...]

Fata He

FATA HE is a West African word which means ‘Inclusion’ and was established in 2001 to redress social and economic inequalities relating to Black and Minority Ethnic (B&ME) individuals, families and groups within the city of Plymouth. Since becoming incorporated as a Limited Company (Social Enterprise) in 2003, Fata He has become an umbrella organisation [...]

Equality Bill to become law

Just in the nick of time, MPs approved the House of Lords’ amendments to the Equality Bill meaning that it has now become law ahead of the election.

The bill is expected to receive Royal Assent from the Queen shortly, with provisions in the Bill beginning to take effect in the autumn.

The new [...]

Stephen Lawrence 10 years after

Black Presence

The Black Presence website was formerly the Black Presence in Britain, history site about the contribution of African descended people in British history.

The Black Presence in Britain website was set up in 1998 due to a lack of information about Black people in Britain to be found on the Internet.

I was studying politics [...]

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