Sentences with phrase «ethnic minorities say»

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During his tenure, embassy officials «advanced American values» by meeting with religious leaders and human rights lawyers and visiting Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang, Locke said.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

Cadillac has always appealed to older buyers, but it needs to think about winning buyers from emerging markets, ethnic minorities and young people to stay relevant, Edwards said.

A Christian MP has said the there is «serious problem in the criminal justice system» after a report found ethnic minority defendants are more likely to be jailed for some crimes than white people.

Rakhine is home to the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority who say they have been persecuted by the Myanmar military during its decades of authoritarian rule.

When it comes to asserting publicly the genetic and ethnic assumptions that are usually muted, some say that Jews, because of their past suffering and minority status, should be given an exemption from observing the protocols of assumed equality.

The charity's Sudan officer said: «We've seen that Christians are coming under particular pressure as well as ethnic minorities.

In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been described as «a textbook example of ethnic cleansing» by the United Nations, Aung San Suu Kyi didn't criticise the army and said she did not «fear international scrutiny».

More churches should be led by female priests and those «who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups», the new Bishop of London has said.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

Hudson - Wilkin said, «With my hand on my heart, I do not believe that the Church respects and embraces its minority ethnic membership.»

An ethnic and sexual minority who, though the BIble forbade him from even entering a temple on account of his sexuality, turned to Philip and said, «Look, here is water.

Bright Blue, which counts Theresa May, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts among its members, said the war on drugs had clearly failed and that the Tories could tempt young and ethnic minority voters to the party with a radical proposal on drugs.

In 2010, the Tories won just 16 % per of that ethnic minority vote and critics say recent policies, such as the «go home» vans, will have done little to improve that result in 2015.

«When they cut legal aid,» she says, «a lot of lawyers - particularly black and ethnic minority women lawyers - could no longer survive on the money we were earning because we were getting paid peanuts.

She says this not reflective of the wider membership, but concedes the party has more to do to bolster its ethnic minority and female representation.

«Despite significant progress over the last few years, the volume of business won by ethnic minority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohmminority owned businesses in the UK remains small,» said Sara Todd, chair of Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & DohmMinority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) and executive director at Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD).

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

Tories could capture millions of ethnic minority votes if they soften stance on immigration, says study 13 June 2015

London needs a black or minority ethnic leader, says Margaret Hodge as she bows out of mayoral race

Half of headteachers said the pressure on schools to provide help to ethnic minority pupils has increased in the last year and 65 % stated that current resources were insufficient to meet this need.

When David Cameron says he wants to broaden representation in Parliament, that does not just extend to women and black and minority ethnic (BME) members, it goes right across the spectrum of interests and backgrounds.

Bertha Joseph, Brent's first Afro - Caribbean mayor, said she was joining the Conservatives after Labour failed to address crime in her area or increase the representation of black and ethnic minority Londoners in the council.

Rev Jackson said black and ethnic minority communities need to play a greater role in politics, criticising their lack of representation in the UK.

«While this provides opportunities to help those most disadvantaged, it carries the risk that some ethnic minorities may not receive the help they need to get a job,» NAO chief Sir John Bourn said.

«Certain groups such as young males and ethnic minorities are overrepresented on the database, and the council will be asking whether this potential for bias in law enforcement is acceptable,» said chairman Bob Hepple.

Javid, 48, said he recognised the scandal could cause concern among ethnic minority voters but issued a plea to those who were wavering to look at the government's attempts to «put things right».

Faduma Hassan, who sits on the board of BAME Labour, the advocacy body for ethnic minority Labour members, said:

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said the government was committed to putting things right and he urged ethnic minority voters to look at the bigger picture when it came to Thursday's vote.

And just in case there is anyone out there who still thinks that the work we've done to get more women candidates, more black and minority ethnic candidates... that this is some kind of political correctness that Conservatives should avoid.I would say no.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Far from being consigned to the textbooks of history, racism continues to blight the lives and life chances of black and minority ethnic children and young people, teachers and communities.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

He said there were four overlapping groups to which the Tories have failed to appeal: working class voters, northern urban voters, ethnic minority voters and people outside the Tory heartlands.

11.31 am: Labour's Khalid Mahmood says the Lib Dems have fielded black and ethnic minority candidates in Labour and Tory seats, but not in Lib Dem seats.

11.26 am: Clegg says it's bad at Westminster, where the Lib Dems don't have a single ethnic minority MP, but not at other levels, such as local government.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Government would «put things right» and urged ethnic minority voters to look at the «bigger picture» at the local elections.

The new Shadow Minister for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities says: «Jeremy has shown he's a leader of his time.

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

In a statement, Sheikh said it was important the seat had ethnic minority representation and emphasised her support for Corbyn, saying she backed a Labour party which «sticks to its principles, opposes neoliberalism and utilises the knowledge and experience of its members».

You must watch what you say about ethnic minorities or gay people.

For example, there were no race relations laws: you could say what you liked about ethnic minorities (as they usually weren't called then).

«There was a priority list,» he says, «which associations were supposed to pick from, that had 50 per cent women, 10 per cent ethnic minorities.

Labour said it had the best record of any of the parties in selecting female and ethnic minority candidates.

«As California is a highly populous majority - minority state, we are soon going to learn how diverse racial and ethnic groups respond to legalizing physician - assisted death,» Periyakoil said.

«Since a lack of ethnic diversity is still characteristic of many science and technical fields, it is not as easy for ethnic minorities to find mentors who are demographically similar to them,» she says.

Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

«We saw that prevalence rates for depression and anxiety diagnoses were lower among racial and ethnic minorities compared to non-Hispanic whites,» said Owen - Smith, who worked at the Kaiser Permanente Georgia Center for Clinical and Outcomes Research when the study was conducted.