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Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illness

22nd October 201918th October 2019 Josie McFarlane 483 Views 0 Comments black community, BME, ethnic minority, health, Health issues, Lifestyle, mental health, Racism

Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade

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NHS ‘treating minority ethnic doctors as outsiders’

28th June 201927th June 2019 Josie McFarlane 344 Views 0 Comments Doctors, employment, equality, ethnic minority, health, NHS, Racism, targeted

Doctors from ethnic minorities are too often treated as outsiders by their NHS bosses and peers and not given the support

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Naomi Campbell “Diversity is not a trend”

25th June 201925th June 2019 Josie McFarlane 341 Views 0 Comments Black model. career, Diversity, ethnic minority, Model, Naomi Campbell, Racism

Supermodel Naomi Campbell has said that while diversity in the fashion industry has improved it is still a “big deal”

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Ethnic minority academics speak out over unfair pay

13th January 201911th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 408 Views 0 Comments #academics, black, community, ethnic minority, Faith, Pay Gaps, Unfair Pay

More than a dozen ethnic minority academics from UK universities have come forward with allegations of unlawfully being paid less

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Ethnic minority academics earn less than white colleagues

14th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 573 Views 0 Comments Black and minority, education, ethnic minority, Pay, Pay gap, Teachers, unfair

When Meenakshi Sarkar landed a job as a teaching fellow at Leeds University after a successful career in business in

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Support for ethnic minority entrepreneurs helps 11,000 businesses get off the ground

8th September 201820th September 2019 Josie McFarlane 497 Views 0 Comments #Business loan, #Finances, #Start-up, Business, entrepreneurs, ethnic minority, help, Money, Support

More than 1 in 5 government loans have gone to black, Asian and ethnic minority entrepreneurs. More than 11,000 black,

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Black applicants ‘face more university fraud claims’

10th August 201810th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 756 Views 0 Comments Asian students, black, Black student, Black students, Clare Marchant, David Lammy, ethnic group, ethnic minority, fraud, fraud detection software, minority ethnic students, representative organisations, UCAS, undergraduate applicants, universities and colleges, Universities UK, University, university applications, verification service

Black students are more likely to have their university applications flagged for potential fraud or errors than any other ethnic

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More action urged on women’s human rights

9th August 20188th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 727 Views 0 Comments #metoo, black, black and minority ethnic, bullying, community, disabled, Discrimination Against Women, ethnic minority, gender pay gap, human rights, inequality in pay, Judith Robertson, lone mothers, misogynistic, Scotland, Scottish government, Scottish Human Rights Commission, security system, sexual harassment., SHRC, social security system, women's rights

A new Scottish security system is an opportunity to protect and enhance women’s rights in Scotland, campaigners have said. The

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Racism in schools ‘putting off’ non-white teachers

8th August 20187th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 792 Views 0 Comments black, black and minority ethnic groups, Black teacher, community, ethnic minority, ethnic minority backgrounds, ethnic minority communities, Faith, Initial Teacher Education, Mrs Iwobi, Race Council Cymru, Racism, schools, teaching assistants, trainee teachers, traumatic experiences, Uzo Iwobi, Welsh government, Welsh Government report

Fewer than 30 non-white people began teacher training in Wales last year. Just 2% of those in Initial Teacher Education

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Over 100 Christians sent to ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang, China

5th February 201810th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 8836 Views 0 Comments anti-terror, authorities, China, Christianity, Christians, church, communist ideology, crackdown, discimination, ethnic minority, God, militant Islamists, mind-transformation centres, monitored, Muslim, Muslims in China, Open Doors, re-education camp, separatist groups, surveillance, surveillance cameras, Three Self Churches, Tibetan Buddhist, Uyghur, Wall Street Journal, Xinjiang province

More than 100 Christians have been sent to ‘re-education’ camps in China’s north-western Xinjiang province over the past few months

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