by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
Black community and church leaders are backing a symposium next week at the House of Commons on the over-representation of African Caribbean people on the national criminal DNA database. The event is scheduled for Monday 21 July at 7pm in Committee Room 5 and is open...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 28, 2008
Two senior black clergy in the United Methodist in the USA, who are also longtime civil-rights advocates, say there are striking parallels between the struggles of blacks in the 1960s and those of gays and lesbians working for full inclusion in the churches today. At...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 26, 2008
United Sikhs, a UN affiliated international advocacy NGO, joined other civil rights organizations over the weekend in asking Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to discuss the Sikh turban issue in France with President Sarkozy. Mr Sarkozy’s high profile...
by Sean Reilly | Nov 18, 2007
US civil rights leader the Rev Jesse Jackson, speaking at the launch in Oxford, England, of a programme aimed at increasing the number of black students in higher education, has challenged universities to reflect the diversity of society – writes Martin Revis....
