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Racism in the United Kingdom has a long history and includes structural discrimination and hostile attitudes against various ethnic minorities. The extent and the targets have varied over time. It has resulted in cases of discrimination, riots and racially motivated murders.
On 5 June, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced to launch a statutory inquiry into racial inequalities, which have been exposed amidst a surge of COVID-19 cases in the UK. The human rights watchdog's investigation was to provide evidence-based information, compelled from government departments and organizations.
On 14 April 2021, the US Senate voted 92–6 to advance the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19, with a section of the bill (titled the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act, originally drafted by Senator Richard Blumenthal) dedicated to providing federal grants for ...
The COVID-19 restrictions that impacted basic liberties in the UK were outlined in section 52 of the Coronavirus Act 2020, where the government had the ‘power to restrict or prohibit gatherings or events.’ [187] This act posed significant challenges to ‘the right to protest’ protected by ‘the right to free assembly and association ...
For instance, the official name 'COVID-19' or the colloquial term 'coronavirus' is preferred instead of 'Chinese virus', 'Wuhan virus' or 'Asian virus', which attach ethnicities or locations to the disease. UNICEF and the WHO also recommend the usage of 'people who have COVID-19' instead of 'COVID-19 cases' or 'COVID-19 victims'.
The UK's first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on 31 January 2020. [9] As the number of cases and deaths increased in the subsequent few months, the government enacted emergency powers on 19 March to introduce public health measures in an effort to control the spread of the virus.
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's highly contested plan to make it easier to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is set to become law after the government defeated attempts by ...
Statistics published by Sky News showed that black people in the UK as a whole were over-represented in homicide compared to the population. The figures showed that 13% of murder suspects were black compared to 3% of the population of the United Kingdom (as of the 2010s), and in London 48% of murder suspects compared to 13% of the population. [80]