News: Diversity & multiculturalism

26.02.2004 Yasmin Qureshi has triumphed in her bid to become the Labour candidate in a north London seat, just days after she was denied the nomination in what many believed was a “stitch-up’”.

25.02.2004 New Home Office statistics show numbers of African-Caribbean prisoners has leapt a staggering 58% since 1997, with young black men making up over 90% of all black inmates.

23.02.2004 Furious Labour members accused their party of a vote-rigging stitch-up after Robert Evans beat his nearest challenger, Yasmin Qureshi, by two votes after party officials disallowed two postal votes cast in favour of Qureshi

20.02.2004 More than 500 people packed out Plymouth's extensive Guildhall for a conference to launch The Monitoring Group's Rural Racism Project - a new anti-racism initiative in the South West.

19.02.2004 Police statistics showing a 29 per cent rise in racial crimes since the BNP won seats on Burnley council were discussed by the town's community cohesion board but not released to the public.

19.02.2004 The NHS, and especially its mental health services, have been branded institutionally racist by an inquiry team set up to examine the care and treatment that 38-year-old Rocky Bennett received at the Norvic secure psychiatric clinic in Norwich before he died, in October 1998, after being restrained by up to five nurses.

19.02.2004 UK activists have expressed anger that a government taskforce charged with creating a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights has approved a paper that sidelines taking legal action against companies or public bodies that discriminate.

17.02.2004 News figures on the prosecution of racially motivated crime in Scotland show that convictions for racial crimes are harder to achieve.

13.02.2004 She should have been at school, studying for her GCSEs in order to fulfil her ambition of becoming a doctor. Instead the 15-year-old Muslim girl was at home yesterday explaining why her religious beliefs meant she had not set foot in a classroom for the last 18 months.

11.02.2004 Progress in tackling racism on the football pitch and the stands is not being mirrored in the board rooms, a new report is due to say.

10.02.2004 Two men have pleaded guilty to racially aggravated harassment of a pregnant women and her family after shouting racist taunts and destroying their car.