National Civil Rights Movement - Campaigns for racial justice and equal human rights for ethnic minorities. Details of current events, membership and campaigns.
Dover - Informational site campaigning against resistance to Roma immigrants.
Rural Diversity - Articles and links regarding the treatment of ethnic minorities in rural areas of the UK.
Tolerance: A Strange Reversal - Tolerance once meant accepting people whose beliefs and lifestyles were different. Today it has come to mean something altogether different.
Spectator: An axe to the root of our culture - Discusses how the government is forcing libraries to sell, and sometimes pulp, great works of literature in the name of vibrancy and multiculturalism.
Spectator: What Enoch was really saying - Simon Heffer argues that angry demonstrations by British Muslims against the war on terror suggest that the Rivers of Blood speech should have been heeded, and that Powell's chief concern was culture, not race.
Movement for Justice - Campaigns against racist injustices against Black people and ethnic minorities, particularly at the hands of the police.
AnSer House of Marlow UK - A diversity/equal opportunity development centre promoting good management and practice through magazines, books, the annual British Diversity Awards, training and consultancy.
Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR) - Organisation working against Islamophobic discrimination and harrassment. Information about their activities, campaigns, and their media monitoring service.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Race In Britain - Ongoing coverage including archives of news, analysis, commentary and backgrounders. Links to organisations and government texts and commission reports.
Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Religion in the UK - Continuing coverage with news, commentary, analysis and links to web resources. Includes issues involving the faiths in Britain, faith schools and religious hatred.
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry - Online version of Final Report and Action Plan progress associated with Sir William Macpherson's Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence on 22 April 1993 to identify the lessons to be learned for the investigation and prosecution of racially motivated crimes. Final report February 1999, action plans ongoing.
One Scotland Many Cultures - Scottish Executive campaign to raise awareness of racist attitudes. Includes a history of Scottish migration and reports on asylum seekers.
reFLAG - Campaign for a new UK flag - Advocates adding black to the Union Jack in order to make it more representative of modern UK society. Details of the campaign including contact information.
Institute of Race Relations - The award winning site of this London-based organisation. Topics, features and news.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
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My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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