February 2004
Some stories
Lobbying for change
23 February 2003 saw over 100 asylum rights campaigners and supporters lobbying parliament as the Asylum and Immigration bill was being debated in parliament.
26 February 2004 (269 words)
New study critical of funding for black voluntary groups
A research project on the BME voluntary sector by the 1990 Trust, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has revealed that a significant gulf exists between funders and recipients.
25 February 2004 (313 words)
Conference heralds new anti-racism initiative in South West
Over 500 people packed out Plymouth's extensive Guildhall for a conference to launch The Monitoring Group's Rural Racism Project.
19 February 2004 (317 words)
Rocky Bennett - killed by institutional racism?
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.
18 February 2004 (3107 words)
Anger grows over Daily Express reporting of Roma
The Labour MP Kevin McNamara has tabled a motion in the House of Commons complaining about recent articles in the Daily Express on Roma coming to Britain.
11 February 2004 (602 words)
Express newspaper faces criticism from its own journalists for anti-Roma stance
Journalists at the Daily Express say that editors are pressurising them 'to write anti-Gypsy' articles. Last week, the newspaper ran a campaign to prevent Roma (Gypsies) from new EU countries coming to Britain - which led to the government announcing new restrictions.
4 February 2004 (677 words)