Revealed: UK’s ‘racist’ system of stripping citizenship ‘Secretive’ system means citizens are not even informed they have lost their rights, says damning report The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2025
Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status Yvette Cooper wants guidance to change after row over claims police ‘covered up’ status of two men on charges relating to an alleged rape The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2025
‘Illegal’ among words most often linked to migrants in UK politics, report finds Exclusive: Language during debates reinforces view of migration as inherently unlawful, says Runnymede Trust The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2025
Far-right violence caused by UK failure to address institutional racism, campaigners warn ‘People of colour have faced a rowback on their civil and political rights over the past five years,’ UK’s leading racial justice thinktank says The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2024
Black children more than six times more likely to be strip searched by police Nearly half of strip-searches carried out on children in London were on black children, who make up 16.9 per cent of London’s child population Evening Standard · Jun 10, 2024
Police more than six times more likely to strip-search black children Exclusive: New study also shows forces in England and Wales 10 times more likely to search black people The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2024
Less than 3% of artists named in GCSE art exams are Black or south Asian, study finds Analysis across four exam boards in England reveals white artists comprise 91.6% of all mentions The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024
Labour’s proposals unlikely to be enough to end race disparities Voters will welcome announcement of what party’s reforms will look like but structural inequalities run deep The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024
Government urged to back mandatory reporting over ethnicity pay gap The two organisations also recommended legislation to require employers to publish an action plan to combat any disparities. The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2023
Racial justice groups write to Met police chief with concerns on overhaul plan Plans to overhaul the force, a £366 million two-year scheme dubbed A New Met for London, were launched last week. The Independent UK · Jul 28, 2023
Racial justice groups criticise Met’s refusal to accept force is racist Coalition of 26 organisations say overhauls in policing plan launched last week are a missed opportunity The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2023
Britain ‘not close to being a racially just society’, finds two-year research project Exclusive: More than a third of people from ethnic and religious minorities have experienced racially motivated assault, data shows The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023
Police strip-searches of thousands of children were ‘racist and traumatising’, say charities The Children’s Society and the Runnymede Trust have hit out in the wake of a damning report by Dame Rachel de Souza Wales Online · Mar 27, 2023
The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023 Police strip-searches of children are ‘racist and traumatising’, say charities The Children’s Society and the Runnymede Trust have hit out in the wake of a damning report by Dame Rachel de Souza.