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2007 events

Video ART Postcards on TV 

The Community Channel will be airing several selections of Video ART Postcards as part of their magazine programme 'Charge' from November 16th to 30th. 'Charge' is broadcast 4  times a day at 10am, 1pm, 6pm and 10pm daily.
Community Channel:
Sky 539 • Virgin TV 233 • Freeview 87 (6-9am)

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European anti-Discrimination training 

The seminar is directed at NGOs and trade union representatives. The same training seminar will take place in Glasgow in February-March 2008. This event is funded by the European Commission and aims to develop the capacity of civil society dealing with anti-discrimination. The programme has been developed by an international team, but each seminar will take into account the context of the country in which it is held. In the UK, the seminar will focus on the government's proposals for single equality legislation and what this means for concepts of discrimination, awareness raising, dialogue with the government, and how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and trade unions can work successfully together.
is part of a European Commission funded project: Anti-discrimination and Diversity Training (VT/2006/009). The project is managed b the Human European Consultancy (www.humanconsultancy.com) in partnership with the Migration Policy Group (www.migpolgroup.com)  and is carried out in all EU member states and Turkey.

In the UK, the Runnymede Trust is a partner in this project and responsible for carrying out 2 two-day seminars in the UK. The first seminar will take place on 21 & 22 November in London. The second seminar will take place in early 2008 in Glasgow. This seminar (and others in future) will be carried out by 6 trainers from the UK trained by a team of international experts.

The seminars are for NGOs and trade unions that are active or want to become active in combating discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

Its objective is to develop the capacity of civil society dealing with anti-discrimination. The programme, developed by an international team, will include:

• The key concepts of discrimination as included in UK law, in particular in relation to the recently published Discrimination Law Review, as well as EU law.
• How NGOs and trade unions can develop their role in awareness raising, dialogue with government policy and support to victims, and build networks, both locally and regionally with other stakeholders.

A total of 40 participants, representing NGOs and trade unions, will be selected to attend the seminar, for which not costs will be involved (travel and accommodation for people who have to stay overnight will be paid for by the organisers).

Promoting community cohesion through schools 

Schools are now under a new Duty to Promote Community Cohesion. The Education and Inspections Act 2006 inserted a new section 21(5) in to the Education Act 2002 introducing a duty on the governing bodies of maintained schools to promote community cohesion which came into effect on 1 September 2007.

This one-day national conference, held on 26 November 2007, drew together teachers, practitioners and policymakers from schools, local authorities, voluntary and community based organisations and other related sectors to highlight the central importance of, encourage debate about, and explore good practice on the role of schools in promoting community cohesion.

Speakers at the conference included Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission; Jim Knight MP, Minister for Schools and Learning, Department for Children, Schools and Families and Parmjit Dhanda MP, Minister for Community Cohesion, Department for Communities and Local Government.

Contributions also included those from Sayeeda Warsi, Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion & Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party,;Andrew Stunell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Liberal Democrat Party and Sir Keith Ajegbo, Lead Associate for Education at the Institute for Community Cohesion.

Extracts from many of these speeches and a more detailed report of the conference is included in the December 2007 Bulletin. 

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European Programme on Integration and Migration (EPIM)

UKREN AGM

Since its establishment in 1996 the network has been steadily growing. In 2007 the membership embraces more than 150 organisations, involved in race relations and working to combat racism at local, national and European level. In the last 4 years UKREN has assumed a growing range of responsibilities on complex race relations issues at European level and in the UK context. It is therefore increasingly important to secure active members' engagement. The Constitution of 2002 has been redrafted to correspond to the areas of activities and programmes UKREN is involved in and to allow for a new management structure which is able to oversee and define strategic priorities and directions for UKREN. The UKREN Management Committee is therefore submitting a resolution to that effect and hopes that UKREN will adopt the amended Constitution at its forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2007.

Please click here to read the Resolution on UKREN's Constitution