Sentences with phrase «on ethnic minorities»

When we decided to do a feature on ethnic minorities in science, it was a given that we would take an international approach.

Statistics on ethnic minorities in European science are scarce and difficult to parse due to the diversity of the colonization and migration histories of cultures across Europe.

It seems like open season on ethnic minorities.»

But trapped between that sentiment and its inability to tackle EU migration, the Tories have allowed a militarisation of immigration enforcement to take place which has a deep emotional impact on ethnic minorities.

She has previously written for South China Morning Post on ethnic minority youths.

«While it is good that no Christians died for their faith in Vietnam, the authorities continue to crack down on ethnic minority Christians and will start implementing a new law on religion in 2018 for all Christians.»

One is a teacher in the school (responsible for leading on Ethnic Minority Achievement); the other is the LEA Parental Involvement co-ordinator who co-ordinates SHARE throughout the LEA.

Positive impact on ethnic minority athletic training education and service: A Houston native, John Harvey has influenced many athletic trainers through his long - time career and service to the profession.

The John Harvey Humanitarian Award was established in direct response and in the spirit of the above statement to recognize an athletic trainer who, throughout their career, has had a significant positive impact on ethnic minority athletic trainers or on physically active ethnic minority individuals.

These included alleged breaches of EU environmental and habitat directives, indirect discrimination on an ethnic minority community due to the impact of redevelopment of London's Euston station, and a challenge to the way the project was steered through Parliament.

It then describes the central research questions framing studies on ethnic minority fathers and discusses issues related to measurement and methodology.

Not exact matches

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

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.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

A company - sponsored analysis released in December overlaid maps of Airbnb listings and traditional hotels on maps of neighborhoods where a majority of residents were ethnic minorities.

The National Household Survey findings on «immigration, place of birth, citizenship, ethnic origin, visible minorities, language and religion,» for instance, are here.

Initially, much will depend on the speed of developments in the deliberations and actions of three major constituencies within the church: the liberal institutionalists, the racial and ethnic minorities, and the conservatives.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

He added: «He himself wanted to introduce the work of the meeting, thanking the participants gathered to pray and reflect together on what to do to meet the dramatic situation of Christians living in the Middle East and other religious and ethnic minorities who are suffering because of the violence raging throughout the region.»

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».

The Council on American - Islamic Relations in Kansas is asking for Purinton to be charged with a hate crime both federally and at the state level «in order to send a strong message that violence targeting religious or ethnic minorities will not be tolerated.»

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.

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.»

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

The charity thinks the fresh charges are part of a crackdown on religious and ethnic minorities in Iran.

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.

Jesus used his platform to create space for the bleeding woman to share her story, for the little children to come swap stories with him, and for alienated ethnic minorities to talk about their experiences and perspectives on faith.

Although football in Europe's largest country is on the up, it is not without it's problems, particularly with racism, where a number of ethnic minority players have found themselves the subject of taunting from the stands.

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.

His influence even stretches beyond White Hart Lane: London's Mayor Boris Johnson has named King one of his own youth ambassadors for the capital, while Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has deployed the former Tottenham skipper on a scheme to encourage young black and ethnic minority men back into employment.

«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 ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

Young people and those from black and minority ethnic communities could miss out on voting for the next government because they are not on the electoral register, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

Nigel Farage stands on stage with an assortment of black and ethnic minority Ukip candidates, as he attempts to dispel perceptions his party is racist

The independent watchdog has published a report which found more than half (56 per cent) of young people aged 17 - 24 are unregistered and 31 per cent of people with black or minority ethnic backgrounds are not on the register.

[3] Amnesty International, Ethnic Cleansing on a Historical Scale: Islamic State's Systematic Targeting of Minorities in Northern Iraq (London: Amnesty International, 2014).

First, Russia bowed to EU and US pressure to tolerate the systemic discrimination against Russophones (mostly ethnic Russians) in Estonia and Latvia, leading to those two countries being included in the enlargement process of the EU and NATO, despite their flagrant infringements of Western norms on minority protections.

Conservative students at Oxford university have started a campaign for the same rights as gay people and ethnic minorities after claims they are being persecuted on campus.

They are now lobbying for the creation of a new position on the college's equal opportunities committee entitling them to the same protections as disabled people, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community.

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.»

The pressure on local authorities to save money has already led to a reduction of women - only and black and minority ethnic specialist services.

While not theoretically an easy needle to thread, Neil O'Brien's Policy Exchange, with its simultaneous focus on improving life in the North and appealing to ethnic minority voters, did just that.

Likewise, the Conservatives only became re-electable once they had embraced under Cameron a Blairite sense of comfort with modern values (e.g. on gay rights, ethnic minorities, the environment).

Of course this impacts many white Brits, but it has an even harsher impact on many ethnic minorities.

The Conservatives struggle to attract ethnic minorities supporters because they have «questions to answer» on race, one of David Cameron's advisers has admitted.

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.

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

In terms of proving progressive credentials to the Left my guess is that the Conservative leadership would also point to the party's acceptance of homosexual rights, efforts to promote women and ethnic minority candidates and the significant emphasis that the party has placed on civil libertarianism and combating climate change.