News: Diversity & multiculturalism

26.03.2004 London Mayor Ken Livingstone has slammed the governments’ proposed single equalities body, saying it would marginalise all equalities subjects and become an “inaccessible monolith”.

16.03.2004 Recent research into disadvantaged neighbourhoods by Warwick and Leeds Universities for the Department for Education and Skills has found that although ethnic minorities had less access to home computing and the internet they tended to use home computers more often than white people for educational rather than leisure purposes.

09.03.2004 Two years after the Metropolitan police were forced to pay almost £250,000 to Sergeant Gurpal Virdi, the Sikh officer wrongly accused of sending racist material to himself and his colleagues, the force has admitted that it can find no other suspects.

08.03.2004 Trevor Phillips, head of Britain’s top race body, has issued a strong warning that he is prepared to abandon the proposed single equalities body unless key demands are met.

03.03.2004 The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has laid down a challenge to Wales to stop talking about racism and act instead. It has opened a public consultation on its work and its vision for the future of a Wales freed from racism and discrimination.

02.03.2004 Stoke on Trent councillors have been consulting officials on whether council rules can be changed in an attempt to stop the two BNP councillors in the city from having group rights on the council.