asylum and race equality, it could not be more urgent to shift the dial.
These conclusions were also recently reached by a prominent UN body in its investigation into race and racism in the UK. Gün Kut, a leading member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, expressed concern about ‘the persistence of hate crimes, hate
speech and xenophobic incidents on
various platforms and by politicians and public figures’. The committee emphasised the need to hold politicians accountable for racism in the public sphere.
Calling for change
The UN’s findings follow significant efforts by a coalition of civil society organisations to highlight concerns about issues facing people of colour to the committee. This includes a joint report by Amnesty UK and the Runnymede Trust that demonstrated the realities of institutional racism in the UK and the threats currently facing people of colour.
Our submission, which gained the support of more than 40 other civil society organisations, demonstrated how the recent row-back of the
civil and political rights of people of colour infringed key articles of the UN’s International Convention of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It detailed the extent of the plight facing people of colour in the UK, who are two-and-a-half times more likely to live in poverty during this ‘cost-of-living’ crisis. It also showed the depth of disparities facing people of colour in the criminal justice, health and education systems and in the labour market. The submission contained key
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