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Jun 22 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
This #RightsRemovalBill is as bad as we feared. It is a power grab from a Government who want to avoid scrutiny for cruel and racist policies 🧵
This must be seen alongside the Borders Bill, Policing Bill and Elections Bill.

Combined, ethnic minority people in the UK are facing the most significant threat to their civil rights in recent memory. ft.com/content/a63e82…
This #RightsRemovalBill would limit our ability to challenge things like Voter ID, revoking citizenship for those with ties elsewhere, or deporting refugees to Rwanda against the public will.
Telling that on #WindrushDay2022, the Government continue to peddle legislation which will actively hurt minority ethnic communities, and create barriers denying them effective means to challenge this and access their rights.

It leaves us in good company.
Our policy team put together our response to the #RightsRemovalBill a couple of months back.

We will now analyse this Bill in detail, and do all we can to fight against it. runnymedetrust.org/publications/p…
Over 75,000 people have already signed @libertyhq's petition to bin the #RightsRemovalBill and protect rights and freedoms for everyone.

🖊️Add your name and #SaveYourRights action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/100020/pe…

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May 10
The plan to scrap the Human Rights Act in the #QueensSpeech & introduce a new Bill of Rights will undermine the rights of Black and ethnic minority groups. Here’s why 🧵
Proposals include the introduction of a ‘permission stage’ in bringing a human rights case to court👇

If an ethnic minority person has been discriminated against by a local authority, they would first have to show they have faced a ‘significant disadvantage’ to bring a case
A permission stage has been explicitly articulated as an attempt to weed out “frivolous” claims.

The notion that any claim that sets out to assert human rights is ‘frivolous’ is something we should contest, and the permission stage will only serve to undermine rights.
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Mar 16
In the last 24 hours, 3 horrendous cases of institutional racism have come to light 🧵
A young Black schoolgirl, #ChildQ, was taken out of an exam to be strip searched - without any adult supervision from her guardians - on suspicion of possessing cannabis, which she did not.

She was then sent back into her exam, traumatised and shaken. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
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Jan 14
While we are embroiled in Downing Street parties, ethnic minority people across the UK are facing one of the most significant threats to their civil rights in recent memory.

An onslaught of legislation is in parliament this month, here's what you need to know 🧵
Today, MPs are debating the Elections Bill, which would make it mandatory to show photo ID when casting a vote at local and national elections.

This would disenfranchise millions of voters, in attempt to solve an electoral fraud problem which doesn't exist.
The Policing Bill is a bill of enormous and alarming proportions.

A crack down on everything from the right to protest to expanding the use of stop and search powers, it constitutes draconian measures which will entrench racial discrimination and curtail civil liberties.
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Dec 7, 2021
As the #BordersBill is scrutinised in parliament today, here's what you need to know about its potential impact on ethnic minority Britons 🧵👇
Between 2006 and 2014, powers to strip citizenship were used 27 times. In 2017 alone, its use rose dramatically to 104 times

Last month, a new clause was snuck into the #BordersBill, which would grant the power to deprive a person’s citizenship without them even being told
This new clause is an indefensible proposal which adds further weight to already discriminatory citizenship stripping laws

It reinforces the idea that ministerial discretion can decide whether or not you belong in the UK
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Oct 22, 2020
1. On Monday we published new research with @IPPR on ethnic disparities in Covid which found that 58,000 additional people would have died if white communities faced the same level of risk as Black communities

Here's a quick thread on how and why we made that calculation
2. In the House of Commons today Minister for Equalities @KemiBadenoch said that she does “not recognise those figures. Its methodology was not transparent, and our statisticians in the Cabinet Office could not understand where it got the numbers from”

We reject this conclusion
3.Our methodology is widely accepted in the academic community. To get to this statistic we applied the black population’s age and sex specific death rates from Covid-19 to the white population

The full methodology is explained in an addendum to the blog runnymedetrust.org/blog/ethnic-in…
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Oct 22, 2020
The new government report released today on #Covid19UK and #ethnicity does little to to *actually* help vulnerable BME communities and stem race still being a social determinant of health. In our report with @IPPR we found that:
- Underlying health conditions NOT important /1
- 58,000 extra deaths if white population faced same risk factors as black population i.e occupational and socio-economic
- Main factors unequal social conditions (i.e occupation and housing), unequal access to healthcare, and structural/ institutional racism that underpins them
The new government measures including the new Community Champions scheme to improve public health messaging, does not plug the gap in local authority funding faced by BME communities in this country and the tiny amount of money allocated to it is no where near enough /3
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