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Why should every workplace confront discrimination head on?

World Zero Discrimination Day recently passed on March 1st, and the questions it raises for workplaces stay with us: Do people here actually feel safe, respected, and able to be themselves? Many LGBTQ+ and gender‑diverse employees still experience something very different in their day‑to‑day reality.

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Nadiya Hussain: BBC saw me as difficult because I’m a woman of colour

The 2015 Great British Bake Off winner said she could still be employed in television if she “did as I was told” or “if I was a man”.

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UK firms make progress on diversity targets but ‘significant improvement’ needed

The proportion of ethnic minority leaders at the UK’s largest companies has increased over the past year, but “significant further improvement” is needed to meet targets by next year, according to a Government-backed review.

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'Hate and racism makes me afraid but I have an amazing neighbourhood'

A migrant woman who has made Northern Ireland her home, has said she can "feel afraid to go out" because of fear of hate and racism. Speaking to the first minister the East Timorese woman also stated “I am lucky, and my neighbourhood is amazing."

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Mocking people for their class is discrimination – so why don’t we treat it as such?

Class-based discrimination might be dismissed as harmless banter or attributed to personality clashes, but research on social interactions shows that what is labelled banter can quickly cross into harmful or exclusionary behaviour.

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Areas in London where Black people are '48 times more likely to be stopped by police'

“Data-driven insights provide a robust evidence base to support fairer, more effective policing in London, and aim to help rebuild trust between communities and law enforcement.”

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The impact of the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling as its one-year anniversary looms.

On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Sadly, headlines and attempts to divide us through fear are often in the forefront–  the reality of that ruling, as told through 13 lives.

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New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’

The TUC said approximately 4.7 million women are to benefit from stronger sick pay from April, including more than 830,000 who will receive statutory sick pay for the first time.

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Mothers who lost their children because of their sexual orientation

"As far as the family courts of the 1980s were concerned, being a lesbian and a mother was simply incompatible. Vast numbers of those who dared to test that proposition came up against the institutionalised removal of their children from their custody and care.”

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Peers have voted to axe non-crime hate incidents

These incidents are broadly defined as acts appearing motivated by hostility towards individuals based on specific protected characteristics – such as race, religion, disability, or gender – but which ultimately do not constitute a criminal offence.

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