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Author of controversial race report invokes Bob Marley’s anti-oppression lyrics to defend slavery remarks Nadine White © Provided by The Independent The author of controversial race report has invoked Bob Marley’s anti-oppression lyrics to deny that he attempted to glorify slavery. Speaking at a panel event, The Sewell Report: Next Steps, hosted by rightwing thinktank Policy Exchange, Tony Sewell dismissed accusations of this as a “vile misrepresentation” . In the 258...

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URL copied to clipboard On a patch of higher ground in Burgess Park, south London, Abdul points at the building he used to work in. Owned by the State of Qatar, the Shard thrusts greedily upward, master of all it surveys. “I was working as a cleaner, in different places,” Abdul says. “In like, government offices. I was [also] working in the Shard, near London Bridge. It was from midnight till seven in the morning. At night, there was no one inside really. Just some cleaners. Most of t...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Female Assistant Manager of Apartment Management Company Was Subjected to Hostile Environment and Retaliatory Discharge, Federal Agency Charged BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sealy Management Company, Inc., a property sale, rental and management company headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Ala., that owns and manages apartments in Alabama and three other states, has agreed to pay $88,785 and take other steps to settle a sexual harassment and retaliatio...

THE Home Office signed up to a legally binding action plan today to address its failures to comply with the law during the Windrush scandal. The initiative follows a ruling by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last November that ministers broke equality law when setting its “hostile environment” policy. The policy, introduced by Theresa May in 2012 when she was home secretary, was intended to deter illegal immigrants from remaining in Britain. It led to hundreds of members o...

PEERS voted today to protect victims of domestic abuse from having their details shared with the Home Office in order to shield them from immigration enforcement. In a report-stage debate on the Domestic Abuse Bill, the Lords voted 321 to 262 in favour of an amendment that would offer more safeguards against deportation to victims of violent and coercive behaviour by limiting information passing from the police to the Home Office. Ahead of the vote, Baroness Crawley (Labour) said that ab...

HOLYROOD must pursue every route possible within its devolved powers to mitigate the impact of no recourse to public funds (NRPF) clauses on migrants in Scotland, public-sector and charity leaders have said. While giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s local government and communities committee today, representatives from across the third sector called on the SNP administration to co-ordinate a cross-government response to redress the harm that NRPF causes to individuals and families.�...

by Bethany Rielly PRITI PATEL is facing allegations of having misled MPs over coronavirus safety at asylum-seeker accommodation after inspectors found squalid conditions at two sites. On Monday, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons and the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration branded Penally camp in Pembrokeshire and Napier Barracks in Kent, where hundreds of asylum-seekers have been held since September, “impoverished,” “run-down” and in some areas “filthy.” ...

On 23 March the UK went into lockdown as Covid-19 rapidly spread throughout the country. Many businesses were told to close-up shop, workers were told to work from home and the economy essentially shut down for the following four months. However, it has recently been reported that in factories supplying clothes for Boohoo in Sheffield, workers were forced to continue going to work, social distancing rules were breached and hygiene measures were never put in place. An investigation into working ...

RISHI SUNAK must scrap migrant welfare curbs in the upcoming Budget or risk driving an unprecedented number of families into destitution, campaigners warned today.  The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) urged the Chancellor today to drop the “no recourse to public funds” (NRPF) rule, which excludes an estimated 1.4 million people from accessing state support.  The call comes as the JCWI published new rese...