EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHEN THE LAW ISN’T ENOUGH

Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission

….I want to say thank you to the lawyers; and second, I want to quote from the Guardian newspaper. It’s from an editorial on November 10th 2005 reflecting on the course of race relations forty years on from the passage of the first recognised anti-discrimination law in the UK: “For those who doubt (that we have made progress), a television clip which the Commission for Racial Equality showed during its party this week to celebrate the 1965 Race Relations Act should change their mind. It was made in 1963 and involved a BBC interview with the chairman of the Bristol Omnibus Company, which was refusing to employ ethnic minority staff. His defence of the company’s employment policy could not have been more….

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