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Community urges investigation into migrant exploitation
The residents of Govanhill have called for a government inquiry into the exploitation of migrants by local gangmasters, as concerns have arisen about workers' living conditions.
26 September 2008 (external article)
bbc news Former defence chief denounces treatment of Iraqi man
A government resettlement scheme has been criticised by a former defence chief for failing to provide decent living conditions for British-employed Iraqis in the UK.
4 July 2008 (external article)
bbc news Dale Farm reprieve
Over 40 Traveller families living at the Dale Farm site in Billericay have won a fight to stop their immediate eviction with a High Court judge ruling that more time is needed to investigate the concerns about the welfare of the families.
13 May 2008 (external article)
manchester evening news ASBOs to be used against Travellers
Moves by Stockport Council to use ASBOs against Traveller families who park on unauthorised areas have been branded racist by a local Traveller group which has accused the council of failing their community.
22 April 2008 (external article)
guardian Threat to refuges for BME women
A new report has found that refuges for women and children from BME communities suffering domestic violence are under threat, following changes to funding arrangements.
13 February 2008 (external article)
guardian Badly housed migrant families win legal case
Six migrant families, who were housed in overcrowded or unsanitary conditions by Birmingham City Council, have won their case giving them the right to decent accommodation.
13 February 2008 (external article)
guardian East Europe migrants only take 1% of social housing
Eastern European migrants, who have moved to Britain in the past two years, have been allocated only 1% of council or housing association accommodation according to research presented at the government's migration impacts forum.
17 January 2008 (external article)
guardian New inquiry into discrimination against White families
The new Commission for Equality and Human Rights is to initiate an inquiry into whether White families are discriminated against when applying for social housing.
5 November 2007 (external article)
black britain BME elders living in poverty
According to Age Concern, elders from BME communities are living in poverty because confusion over the complicated benefits system.
10 October 2007 (external article)
evening post CRE takes action against Traveller petition man
The Commission for Racial Equality in Wales has begun legal action against Carl Lewis, who circulated leaflets and a petition against two Traveller families.
26 September 2007 (external article)
bbc news Traveller family demand planning answers
A Traveller family in Leicestershire has accused the local Hinckley and Bosworth council of 'hiding their heads in the sand' after the council failed to find the family an alternative site or grant them planning permission.
10 September 2007 (external article)
news shopper Offensive leaflets about Swanley Traveller development
Police are appealing for information about offensive leaflets encouraging racial hatred against Travellers that have been distributed in the Swanley area of Kent following a planning application.
4 September 2007 (external article)
guardian Call for selective amnesty for illegal immigrants
The Liberal Democrats are to pressurise the government to grant a 'selective amnesty' to illegal immigrants who are proving to be good potential citizens.
28 August 2007 (external article)
inside housing Community stability threatened by White peoples' perceptions
New research has found that perceptions that White people are being discriminated against by social landlords are threatening community cohesion.
14 August 2007 (external article)
bbc news South Belfast family forced from home after three years of racist harassment
Sadhu Heatley - originally from Nepal's Himalayan region - has been forced to leave the home she shares with her children and 80-year-old mother after being targeted by racists, who have thrown acid bombs at her house and tried to kick in her front door.
4 July 2007 (external article)
comment
Labour's love lost?
By Jenny Bourne
A new book on London's East End blames multiculturalism, and especially the sharing of welfare benefits with 'newcomer' Bengalis, for white working-class racism.
22 February 2006 (3048 words)
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'This policy is ripping apart our family'
By Flores Sukula
Here we reproduce a speech given by 19-year-old Flores Sukula to a meeting in parliament on 17 October. She is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), whose family (mother, brothers and sisters) was one of the first to be made destitute under new asylum laws.
18 October 2005 (614 words)
Racial Justice Sunday supports Dale Farm Travellers
Dale Farm residents, who face the bulldozing of their homes by a Tory council, led a procession through St Paul's Cathedral on 11 September, marking London's 10th Racial Justice Sunday.
14 September 2005 (143 words)
Fate of Sukula family in the hands of Bolton Council after lost appeal
Pressure is mounting on Bolton Council, from national and local organisations, not to force an asylum-seeking family into homelessness and take their children into care under new government measures.
11 August 2005 (997 words)
Fire cover cuts could affect Black communities
Local firefighters and the Fire Brigades Union are concerned that the West Midlands Fire Service's plans to reduce fire cover could endanger the lives of vulnerable communities, especially Black and Minority Ethnic families and businesses, in some of the most deprived areas of the region.
10 February 2005 (373 words)
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