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Black Britain delivers news and information
services to the Black and ethnic minority communities, and addresses
the shortcomings of mainstream media which continued to cover Black and
ethnic minority news interest negatively and/or inadequately.
The
Black Information Link (BLINK) is
interactive community web site which contains an introduction to the vision,
mission, goals and objective of The 1990 Trust. The site has many useful
downloads.
Black Women's Rape Action Project
offers counselling, support and advice to Black women and other women of
colour, immigrant and refugee women, who have suffered rape, sexual assault
or other violence.
The
Blofeld Inquiry into the death of psychiatric patient David "Rocky"
Bennett (published 2004) highlighted what it calls the “festering
abscess” of institutional racism in mental health services. It
brings to mind the earlier Macpherson Report on the racist murder of Stephen
Lawrence, which highlighted institutional racism in the Metropolitan police.
The
Commission for Racial Equality
is a publicly funded, non-governmental body set up under the Race Relations
Act 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote equality.
It works in both the public and
private sectors.
Criminology in the New
Millenium is the site of Ruth Chigwada-Bailey, a criminologist who has
organised conferences addressing issues around race, gender and criminal
justice since 1991.
The
Disability Rights Commission (DRC) is an independent body established in
2000 by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of
opportunity for disabled people. The DRC have the goal of "a society where
all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens".
The
Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) is the leading agency working to
eliminate sex discrimination in the UK. They campaign to change public
opinion and the law, and publish research to show where change is needed.
They use their unique legal powers of enforcement to investigate sex
discrimination.
The
Fawcett
Society campaigns for equality between women and men. Their Commission
on Women and the Criminal Justice System was established to bring a gender
perspective to policy-making around criminal justice issues and to allow
women a voice in the current debates. Some excellent downloads are available
here
The Gay Police
Association has members in all 52 UK police
forces, and supports 16,000 police staff.
This represents the largest minority community employed by the police.
The GPA also work to educate the police service and government on
issues connected with sexual orientation and policing.
The
Institute of Race Relations
analyses institutionalised racism in Britain and Europe. This includes
scrutiny of policing and the criminal justice system.
The
IQRA Trust Prisoners Welfare
works to promote a better understanding of Muslim inmates' needs in UK
prisons.
The Trust also provides Islamic books and educational materials for Muslim
prisoners and deals with inquires from Probation Officers nationwide.
Justice For Women is
a feminist organisation that campaigns and supports women who have fought
back against or killed violent male partners. It
campaigns for changes in the defences to murder so
that they reflect women's experiences of domestic violence.
The LAGIP website is
about providing a network for advice, support, and collegiality among gay
and lesbian bisexual and transgendered probation service and family courts
employees in England and Wales.
Macpherson Inquiry: This website
provides the full Report of Sir William Macpherson's Inquiry into the death
of Stephen Lawrence. It concludes the police investigation was marred by
"professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of
leadership".
The
Metropolitan Police
Diversity Strategy is interesting to explore in light of the issues
raised in the Macpherson Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence.
The
Morris Inquiry is
an independent Inquiry into professional standards and employment matters in
London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The Inquiry conducted a survey
of all 43,000 MPS officers and staff. The full survey report can be
downloaded from the website.
The
National Body of Black Prisoner
Support Groups was established from groups of criminal justice
practitioners working directly with Black and Minority Ethnic Offenders.
They aim to develop a nationwide support network for Black and Minority
Ethnic (BME) Offenders, and act as a voice for BME Offender Organisations.
The
National Civil Rights Movement
(NCRM) aims to provide support for the victims of racial injustice, to
promote family-based campaigns and to challenge the criminal justice system.
As a nationwide network dedicated to the struggle for racial justice and
human rights, they are committed to challenging the discriminatory criminal
justice system and institutional racism in all forms. The NCRM is
independent of Government and government agencies.
The
Race For Justice
Project is an inter-agency team
focused on making the services of all criminal
justice agencies in Hampshire and Isle of Wight
more accessible and relevant.
Racial
Equality Councils (RECs) work in local areas,
among local communties, to promote racial equality and tackle racial
discrimination. There are currently 100+ RECs listed on this
website.
RaceActionNet
offers authoritative, extensive and up-to-date material on racial
harassment and racist attacks for practitioners and policy makers. This
password protected site requires a membership fee; well worth persuading
your agency or organisation to subscribe.
The
Runnymede Trust is a leading
independent, voluntary funded think tank on ethnicity and cultural
diversity. They aim to challenge racial discrimination, influence
legislation and promote a successful multi-ethnic Britain.
The
Race
Equality Scheme for the Scottish Executive, One Scotland - Many Cultures
Working Together for Race Equality is available in full here.
The EOC website for
legal advisers on sex discrimination
and equal pay provides a resource for legal advisers and others
conducting claims on behalf of applicants in sex discrimination and equal
pay cases in England and Wales. It covers employment-related sex
discrimination only.
The
Social Exclusion Unit
aims to reduce social exclusion by producing 'joined-up solutions to
joined-up problems'.
The
Zahid Mubarek
Inquiry was set up by the Home Secretary on 29 April 2004, as a non-statutory public inquiry into the
murder of Zahid Mubarek at Feltham Young Offender Institution on 21 March
2000. Comprehensive documentary evidence and witness statements are posted
on this website.
218 is a
new Scottish project offering women offenders in Glasgow programmes of care.
Their site is for people who are in contact with women offenders; through
the justice system
Diversity: International
The
Antiracist
Center in Norway seeks to promote human rights and equal opportunities,
and provides individual assistance to those who
have become social, political and economic victims of racism and racial
discrimination. This site has a substantial news section
in English.
The
Australasian Police Multicultural
Advisory Bureau aim to promote “harmonious police/multicultural
community relations in Australasia” and to “provide professional responses
to the challenges of Australia's cultural and linguistic diversity”. There
are some useful resources on this site.
CEML is an
anti-racist group which fights against the brutality of ‘control unit’
prisons. Prisoners in these prisons are caged for arbitrary lengths of time,
sometimes years, in total isolation in conditions that violate the United
Nations' Standard Minimum Rules for the treatment of prisoners.
The
Council on Crime and
Justice is an independent, non-profit organization integrating research,
demonstration projects and advocacy "to bring just solutions to the causes
and consequences of crime". The Council has been involved in such areas as
offender services, alternative sanctions, victim's rights, and restorative
justice.
The
European Commission
against Racism and Intolerance aims to combat
racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance at the level of greater
Europe and from the perspective of the protection of human rights.
The
European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is a network of
non-governmental organisations working to combat
racism in EU member states. It acts
against the discrimination and exclusion of people of different racial,
ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The site offers the latest news around the
EU on anti-racism and discrimination legislation.
The
MIRIS
(Minority Rights Information System) site promotes the development of
minority rights standards by providing information for experts, public
officials, minority representatives but also interested researchers and
students. The site is bilingual with texts provided in both English and the
official language of the state concerned.
The
Racial Disparity
Initiative is the Council on Crime and Justice's micro website on racial
disparities in the justice system. It serves as a "one-stop" resource
regarding racial disparity research addressing its causes and consequences,
particularly in Minnesota.
SOS-Racisme is a anti-racist
organisation in France which monitors racial attacks and racially sensitive
legislation.
United for Intercultural Action
is a network of over 560 organisations from 49 European countries
working together
against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and
refugees. |
