Cloisters column: ‘Race Discrimination and Housing in post-Brexit Britain’
18 August 2016
Leading equality and human rights barristers from Cloisters chambers give a monthly practical insight into key legal developments.
Leading equality and human rights barristers from Cloisters chambers give a monthly practical insight into key legal developments.
In January 2016, the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities launched an inquiry into Employment opportunities for Muslims in the UK. The deadline for written submissions was 28 February 2016.
The House of Lords European Union Committee published a report, ‘Children in crisis: unaccompanied migrant children in the EU’, in July 2016.
The APPG on Refugees launched an inquiry ‘Refugees Welcome?’ in July 2016. The inquiry will consider the experiences of refugees who have claimed asylum in the UK, as well as those of refugees who have arrived in the UK through other paths, such as resettlement. The deadline for submitting evidence was 1 October 2016.
The Home Office produced factsheets on the Immigration Act 2016 in July 2016.
The Equality and Diversity Forum launched their strategy for 2016-2020, ‘Key to all our futures’, in July 2016. The strategy sets out what the EDF intends to do to help bring about positive change.
The Trades Union Congress produced guidance, ‘Combatting racist abuse in the workplace: A TUC guide to protecting migrant and Black and Minority Ethnic workers from violence, harassment and abuse’, in August 2016.
The Trades Union Congress published in August 2016 their guidance, ‘Challenging racism after the EU referendum: An action plan for challenging racism and xenophobia’.
The Trades Union Congress published a report in August 2016, ‘Managing migration better for Britain: What the government should be doing now’.
In August 2016 the Community Security Trust published their report, ‘Antisemitic incidents: January – June 2016’. The report recorded 557 anti-Semitic incidents in the first six months of this year, in contrast with 500 last year.