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• Racism in education - The law is on your side!
Race Relations Amendment Act toolkit

• Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade act.
'Breaking the Chains' toolkit and Postcard

NUS Black Students Campaign calls for 3 minute silence for victims of slavery & colonialism

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The Respect Trust is supporting the calls from the NUS Black Students Campaign for Britain to commemorate UNESCO Slavery Memorial Day on 23rd August with a three minute silence. We believe it is essential that the memory is honoured of the millions of Africans forcibly removed from their homeland, shipped in horrific conditions and brutally treated as property of European slave owners. Millions of lives were lost, and generations were born and died in slavery.

Trying to create a fixed sense of 'Britishness' will not achieve social cohesion

Trying to create a fixed sense of 'Britishness' will not achieve social cohesion

Addressing deprivation and how people connect is more important for social cohesion than trying to get everyone to adhere to the same fixed notion of "Britishness". This is according to research published today (21 July) by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report also found that limited opportunities for British people in parts of the UK are undermining attempts to ensure new migrants are well received. It found a stark divide between places that are equipped to adapt to new migrants, and places that are not.

A Framework for Fairness: Proposals for a Single Equality Bill for Great Britain

A Consultation Paper was published in June and is open for consultation until 4 September. Please ensure that you make submissions in order to improve the contents of the forthcoming bill. Below are some briefing papers providing some guidance as to the contents of the green paper and outlining the measures that are needed to progress towards equality. More

• Equality in our lifetime? The Discrimination Law Review Green Paper – what is needed from a Single Equality Act
This briefing paper, published for the 27 June consultation event on the Discrimination Law Review, sets out the Mayor's stance: that a Single Equality Act must level up equality law, rendering it coherent, consistent, comprehensive and easy to access.

• Disability Rights Commission Briefing on the Discrimination Law Review green paper

• The CRE reponds to A Framework for Fairness
1. Introduction, outlining the CRE's general views on the Green Paper
2. Enforcement and remedies
3. Equality duties
4. Procurement
5. Balancing measures/positive action
6. Statutory exceptions