Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority members»

The Johnella Martin / TEA Statewide Minority Affairs Conference is designed to provide an opportunity for ethnic minority members of the Tennessee Education Association to receive pertinent information and training to assist them in their profession and community outreach.

«In a recent Runnymede Trust report commissioned by the NUT, called Visible and Invisible Barriers, Black, Asian and ethnic minority members reported structural barriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the profession.

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

The number of black and ethnic minority members in the new - look shadow cabinet is hugely impressive, while the appointment of former chief prosecutor Sir Keir Starmer — yes, another North London MP — give Labour some much - needed clout in the vital shadow Brexit brief.

The team has 16 women and 14 men - a boost for gender equality - with two women in the four «great offices of state» and six ethnic minority members, the most ever.

There are two women in the four «great offices of state» and six ethnic minority members, the most ever.

Whilst the first ethnic minority Members of Parliament were elected at General Elections as early as the 1890s, it would be almost 100 years before one was returned at a by - election.

CCHQ are reportedly delighted that four women and two ethnic minority members were selected!

But Watford councillor, Rabi Martins, countered that the debate was «not about money - it's about representation - what we as ethnic minority members are calling for is an equal playing field to get selected into target seats».

The report instead favoured a long - term strategy at the grass - roots, encouraging first more ethnic minority members to remove prejudiced attitudes from parties» base, so more candidates will be willing to put themselves forward.

Not exact matches

And of 11 board members, Verizon has three who are ethnic minorities, including two African Americans.

Authorities in Thailand were trying Tuesday to deal with a new group of 67 members of an ethnic Muslim minority that arrived in a boat claiming that they were the victims of persecution.

And would the churches nominate women, members of ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities to this ministry?

Tim: I think there is always of course the danger that if you are challenging too much of non-Christian faiths, particularly faiths that are held mostly by members of ethnic minorities, that you might conflate criticisms of their faith with criticism of them as individuals and therefore be seen as racist, so people are nervous of that.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has urged the Church of England to «get on» with plans to increase the number of black and ethnic minority clergy members.

Perhaps members who feel about ethnic minorities the way Jonah felt about the Ninevites will leave the church or will withhold their funds.

Exclusion of young fathers in some ethnic minority families may be reinforced by cultural practices when female family members play a particularly substantial role in providing support to the mother during pregnancy and birth (Pollock et al, 2005)

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.

During the many sit - ins, cultural events and discussions at the Park, people of very different backgrounds, who would otherwise not come into contact — Turkish secularists and nationalists, Kurdish activists, members of the creative professions and white collar workers, Socialists, religious and ethnic minorities, Islamists as well as LGBT and gender campaigners — found a way to manage coexistence and respect for pluralism.

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

The inclusion of social supply in the bill also has the potential to result in discriminatory impact on members of black and minority ethnic groups, given what is known about the over-representation of members of these groups at each stage of the criminal justice response to drug offences.»

Ethnic minorities make up less than ten percent of the work force and fewer than one in ten board members are female.

The 2000 Arusha Accord, which ended Burundi's ethnic civil war, stipulates that 60 percent of members of parliament be from the majority Hutu ethnic group and 40 percent from the minority Tutsis.

Contrast this with new regime coverage including a comment piece supporting the «impressive» new home secretary, Sajid Javid, trumpeting the «first member of an ethnic minority to hold a great office of state».

Members rejected the idea of ethnic minority and female quotas at last year's conference, causing embarrassment to then leader Charles Kennedy.

We already know, for example, that members of Black and Minority Ethnic communities have a higher risk of illnesses such as high blood pressure that may lead to the need for an organ transplant.

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.

The EHRC has claimed that the changes to the constitution could continue to discourage mixed marriages and integration of ethnic minorities with «indigenous British» people and still require new members to undergo a vetting process by party officials.

Jack: Ethnic minorities overwhelmingly back Labour throughout the country, despite the often negative statements about the Labour party made by members of the ethnic minorEthnic minorities overwhelmingly back Labour throughout the country, despite the often negative statements about the Labour party made by members of the ethnic minorethnic minorities.

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

Cuomo has also appointed members of racial and ethnic minorities to important positions, including Assemblyman Darryl Towns (a former chairman of the caucus) as commissioner of Homes and Community Renewal; Mylan Denerstein serves as counsel to the governor and Alphonso David serves as Cuomo's deputy secretary for civil rights.

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».

There are record numbers of women and ethnic minority MPs and Conservative MP Alan Mak becomes the first British Chinese Member of the Commons.

It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu voters as it does with Muslim or black voters.

«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.»

NASW does not collect statistics on the ethnic backgrounds of its members, but one longtime NASW member tells Science Careers, in an e-mail, «We have extremely few minority members, so few that I can probably name a good proportion of them just off the top of my head.»

But a survey commissioned in 2002 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research found that the country's four largest ethnic minority groups are hardly represented at all among Dutch university staff members.

There are distinctions within the LGBT community that are even more granular — individuals who are both LGBT and members of a racial or ethnic minority group.

Women and members of ethnic minorities were largely excluded.

The overall most common ideological issue for both lone wolves and wolf - pack members was hatred and hostility toward racial and ethnic minorities.

Other big questions remain, particularly for the long - term outcomes of newer procedures, in people with lower (less than 35 kg / m2) BMIs and among members of racial and ethnic minorities.

At the new millennium, more than a quarter of the U.S. population is composed of members of ethnic minorities, including African - Americans, Latinos, and Asians.

Students in the latter group are more likely than their peers to have lower family incomes and education levels, be members of ethnic minorities, or come from immigrant families.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

In addition to the Trump administration's direct policy actions, Trump's bigoted and offensive rhetoric has assaulted our racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, implying that millions of American families and children are less than full members of our society.

Since its inception in 1995, Center X has attracted racially and ethnically diverse candidates, and two - thirds of its current students are members of an ethnic minority.

In Hartford, 97 percent of students are members of racial or ethnic minority groups — in a state with a total minority student population of about 27 percent, said Thomas W. Murphy, a spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Education.

Seventy percent of all non-graduates were members of minority racial and ethnic groups, indicating that minority students are disproportionately affected by this graduation crisis.

«Members of CEA's Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee have recommended that we need to reach out to potential teachers of color before college,» O'Neill said.

The NUT uses the term «Black» in a political context to encompass all members who self - identify as Black or Asian and all other minority ethnic groups who do not identify themselves as white.