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Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke took part in a 'Question Time' style debate on race equality in Norwich.
He was joined on the panel by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, Conservative councillor Antony Little, Green Party councillor Samir Jeraj, community activist Gita Prasad, and panel chair and BBC reporter Clive Lewis.
Up to 60 per cent of black and Asian people have no savings at all, reveals a new research report - Why Do Assets Matter? - from our Financial Inclusion team. The report highlights how tough policy decisions will have to be made to ensure that all people, regardless of ethnicity, have the assets to fulfil their potential.
Practical solutions to the medium-term problems faced by our public services need to be identified, according to the 2020 Public Services Trust (2020 PST), which is placing this task at the centre of its purpose.
Ten recommendations on how to deal with young adults in the criminal justice system have been pulled together in the Young Adult Manifesto, which is published by the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance and incorporates Runnymede’s suggestions.
Laws preventing racial discrimination could be supported and enshrined by the Equality Bill, currently undergoing its second reading in the House of Lords.
A podcast featuring award-winning Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh delivering this year's Runnymede Jim Rose Lecture is now available to download from the LSE website.
You can listen to the celebrated author speaking to an audience of more than 300 on the theme of Belonging, Community and Diaspora.
Also speaking at the event, which is jointly hosted by Runnymede and CRONEM, will be Lord Bhikhu Parekh, who chaired the Runnymede Commission on the Future of a Multi-Ethnic Britain.
Examining the role that religious organisations take in supporting refugees and battling racism is the focus of an upcoming conference, Migration, Racism and Religion, co-organised by Runnymede.
Speaking at the event, which is to be held at the University of East London on Thursday, 4 February, 2010, will be Runnymede director Rob Berkeley, Southall Black Sisters' Pragna Patel and a host of academics and activists.
Young, Muslim, Citizen - Identity, Empowerment and Change is a new web based resource pack by the UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN).
The pack is an online resource for parents, teachers and youth leaders who work professionally with young people of Muslim background. It complements both mosque-based education and citizenship education programmes in mainstream schools.
BME schoolchildren who make up tiny minorities in otherwise white institutions are the focus of one of our latest reports: 'Them and Us: Race Equality Interventions in Predominantly White Schools. While a newly published briefing paper looks at how racial diversity, or lack thereof, in the governance of modern schools affects the UK education system: School Governors and Race Equality in 21st Century Schools.
Today Runnymede published its response to the Green Paper Earning the Right to Stay - A New Points Based Test for Citizenship. In it, we provide concrete evidence that the Government's proposals will have a negative effect on integration and cohesion. An assessment by colleagues at the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) reveals that the proposals would make language and integration conditions for British citizenship one of the most onerous and complicated in Europe.
The final report of the Belonging project is now available to download from the website. Belonging: Message to Policy Makers sets out to offer a policy interpretation of the discussion held by the young people and the key policy messages emerging from their films.
The project has received international recognition and as well as being showcased on the BBC London website, one of the films has been shortlisted at the StrangerFestival in Amsterdam and 2 films were recently shown at a high profile roundtable organised by the UN's Alliance of Civilisations at its headquarters in New York.
Runnymede submitted its response to a consultation on the National DNA Database, where the Government is urged to tailor its response to the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in spirit of the judgement, rather than attempting to comply with the ruling in the narrowest legalistic way possible.
