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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Britain ‘not close to being a racially just society’, finds two-year research project

March Against Racism, 2022
‘Sadly, few ethnic minority Britons will be surprised by the findings,’ said Halima Begum from the Runnymede Trust. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

More than a third of people from ethnic and religious minorities have experienced racially motivated physical or verbal abuse, according to the biggest and most comprehensive survey of race inequality in the UK for more than a quarter of a century.

The survey found “strikingly high” levels of exposure to abuse across a wide range of ethnic minority groups, as well as a high prevalence of racial discrimination and inequality of outcomes in education, the workplace, housing and interactions with the police.

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