big news from the UK parliament today.
https://committees.parliament.uk/commit … committee/parliamentary committee finds that 'human rights of black people not equally protected'.
Chair of the Committee, Ms Harriet Harman QC MP, said:
“The whole point about human rights is that they are supposed to be universal. Yet here in the UK it is clear that Black people are in no doubt that the protection of their rights are inferior to those of white people.
We urge the government to take specific actions which will ensure Black people have equal human rights. Commissioning reports and apologising is not enough.”
summary here:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/j … /55903.htmOver 60% of Black people in the UK do not believe their health is as equally protected by the NHS compared to white people. The death rate for Black women in childbirth is five times higher than for white women. The NHS acknowledge and regret this disparity but have no target to end it. This must be rectified. The impact on the Black community of Covid-19 has been disproportionately severe. Any lessons learned review or public inquiry into the Government’s response to Covid-19 must prioritise consideration of this unequal impact.
85% of black people are not confident that they would be treated the same as a white person by the police. The police should carry out their own polling on this issue and set a target for reducing this startling lack of trust. The Lammy Review was commissioned in 2016 to address the issue of over-representation of Black people in the Criminal Justice System. Four years on, the recommendations of this review must be taken forward as a matter of priority. Likewise, recommendations from the Angiolini review of deaths in custody which reference institutional racism, race or discrimination must be acted upon as a matter of urgency.
The Windrush scandal revealed that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many of whom were Black people from the ‘Windrush’ generation or their children, had been wrongly detained, deported and denied legal rights. We expect the Government to fulfil its promise to implement the recommendations from the Windrush Lessons Learned Review, in full, as a matter of urgency. In particular, the Home Office needs to embed the culture change needed to ensure that people are treated with humanity. We are hugely disappointed by the delays in making payments under the Windrush Compensation Scheme. Those affected must receive the compensation that they are entitled to without further delay.
It is of serious concern to us that 25% of Black voters in Great Britain are not registered to vote compared to a 17% average across the population. We urge the Government to consult on the introduction of automatic voter registration with the aim of reducing this disparity.
to say nothing of the absolute SCANDAL of grenfell tower, in which nearly 100 mostly non-white people lost their lives due to a cost-cutting conservative council, in bed with dodgy cladding/property redevelopers. most of the evidence of that has been lost or destroyed, by the way. no closure.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 … quiry-toldThe Grenfell Tower cladding companies “are little more than crooks and killers”, the public inquiry into the disaster has been told, as internal documents submitted to the inquiry appeared to reveal they knew for years their materials would burn.
Lawyers for the bereaved and survivors revealed emails and slideshows from inside Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan, which they claimed showed “widespread and persistent wrongdoing” as they sold products they knew “were dangerous to life”.
Adrian Williamson QC and Sam Stein QC, representing the bereaved and survivors, said firms and regulators operated in a “toxic and incestuous culture”. A total of 72 people died as a result of the fire on 14 June 2017, and the public inquiry is now starting its examination of the manufacture, marketing and testing of the materials used in the 2014-2016 refurbishment.
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