Govt “Red Tape” Opinion Request on Equality Act 2010 & Sign Co-op Equality Petition
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Government Survey seeks Transgender Community Feedback
Government Survey seeks Transgender Community Feedback
The coalition government is to publish its first ‘Transgender Action Plan’ later this year and is asking trans people to help shape the document.
Ministers promised in May 2010 that they would produce an action plan specifically for trans people.
Faiths in Action in Furness: Share Culture & Faiths in Schools
Faiths in Action in Furness - go into schools to share faiths and cultures - loans service for artefacts from different faiths
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Cuts
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Cuts
When EHRC was formed in 2007 its budget was £70 million. This was later reduced to £60 million, then £53 million by the new government last year. The government now wants to cut funding down to £22.5 million by 2015.
Origin Of All Languages: Study
Study finds 'mother of all languages'
All the world's languages may date back to a single 'mother tongue' spoken in pre-historic Africa, according to new research.
The study suggests that between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago humans spoke in a single dialect that proved the catalyst for human civilisation.
Confusion over disability cuts: risks greater social exclusion, poverty & isolation
Confusion over Disability Cuts:
Denying disabled people support
risks greater social exclusion,
Public Sector Equality Duty Commences On 5 April 2011
Public Sector Equality Duty
A new public sector equality duty has been introduced as part of the Equality Act 2010. This measure puts a legal duty on public bodies to actively promote equality.
Government Immigration Cap Legislation introduced on 6 April 2011
Government Annual Immigration Cap
introduced on 6 April 2011:
The Government's Perspective and Critiques
EU Votes to Protect LGBT Asylum Seekers
The European Parliament voted on new EU-wide procedures for handling asylum claims on 6 April 2011. During the session, members backed amendments that will provide particular protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
BNP Membership Research by Oxford University
Research has found British National Party Membership is higher where whites and non-whites live separately in segregated areas.
Oxford University academics, Dr Michael Biggs, a sociologist & graduate student Steve Knauss used the BNP database posted on Wikileaks that contained 12,000 members’ details and matched them with census data on more than 200,000 British neighbourhoods to make the findings.
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