Race For Human Rights Blog Updates
Here you can find our latest news, updates or thoughts we’d like to share with those involved in our programme.
The UK Government Human Rights Act Reform Consultation, published by the Ministry of Justice, was open to public consultation from December 2021 to March 2022. The public consultation paper was over one hundred pages long and included the UK Government’s views on the history of human rights, the laws (both internationally and domestically) and then it outlined their reasons for reform.
We have seen the term ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ more frequently in the Scottish policy landscape than in previous years. The tragic and unfortunate murder of George Floyd, which sparked a global BLM movement has shone a torch to the systemic inequalities faced by people of colour in the 21st Century. This evidence from COVID-19 statistics cemented what minority ethnics have complained about for so long – there is institutional and systemic racism in Scotland.
We have seen the term ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ more frequently in the Scottish policy landscape than in previous years. The tragic and unfortunate murder of George Floyd, which sparked a global BLM movement has shone a torch to the systemic inequalities faced by people of colour in the 21st Century. This evidence from COVID-19 statistics cemented what minority ethnics have complained about for so long – there is institutional and systemic racism in Scotland.