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ACLU NEWS - Law Firm's Fee Donation Creates New Racial Justice Fellowship
expand our legal program but send a strong message to law enforcement agencies affirmativeaction and other efforts in the fight for racial equality are sorely
http://aclunc.org/aclunews/news198/law-firm.html

Extractions: ACLU-NC Executive Director A court-awarded fee of $1.8 million in a civil rights case will enable the ACLU-NC to further expand our effort in the fight for racial justice in the coming years. The award is part of a judgment from the California Court of Appeal in Davis v. California Department of Corrections a case brought by the ACLU on behalf of Bettye Davis, a Richmond mother whose home was unlawfully invaded and searched in 1988 by armed officers of the Richmond Police Department and the state Department of Corrections who claimed they were looking for a parolee who lived at the address. Davis and her children were terrorized during the search, her doors were broken down, and the ashes of her late husband were spilled from the mantle piece. In earlier rulings, the lawsuit also brought about new regulations for conducting such searches and $668,000 in damages for the family. Strong message The fees donated to the ACLU-NC will not only expand our legal program but send a strong message to law enforcement agencies that there can be a very high price to pay for violating constitutional rights. "The commitment and legal acumen of the Pillsbury attorneys contributed greatly to the legal victory in this case," said ACLU-NC staff attorney Chen. "The firm's generosity in donating this significant attorneys' fee award to the ACLU means that our work on behalf of other families whose constitutional rights were violated will also be strengthened."
Democrats Dont Have The Constitution For Racial Equality
Democrats Don't Have the Constitution for racial equality By Ann Coulter. Now everyonetreats constitutional law as if it is an ongoing referendum about various
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/01-27-03/coulter.htm

Extractions: All the blather about the University of Michigan race discrimination case has at least proved one thing: Now everyone treats constitutional law as if it is an ongoing referendum about various public policy issues. Pundits simply assume state colleges are allowed to create a racial stew. Even the wackiest Supreme Court rulings always make a big show of pretending to consult the Constitution before announcing, for example, that Christmas displays must have a particular ratio of reindeer to virgins. The Growing Constitution has grown into a collection of primal urges, devoid of law. People believe their wild irrational appetites should find expression in Supreme Court opinions. Roe v. Wade Like everyone else in the universe, I too have strong opinions about how universities should run their admissions systems. There is, however, an Equal Protection Clause.
Web Sites -- Civil Rights
in the United States. The racial equality page includes Campuses, and backgroundmaterial on racial profiling Civil Rights and Discrimination law Materials and
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/race/lawlinks.htm

Extractions: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the "nation's foremost advocate of individual rights litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States." The Racial Equality page includes ACLU's briefing papers on Racial Justice, Affirmative Action, Hate Speech on College Campuses, and background material on racial profiling. Civil Rights and Discrimination Law Materials and Equal Protection Law Materials Describing itself as the "definitive source for civil rights on the net," this site "aims to serve as a central repository and trusted intermediary for information on a variety of civil and human rights issues." Maintained by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the website includes recent policy issues and legislation, a civil rights library, educational material, an event calendar and newsletter. The Civil Rights Project - Harvard University A policy-oriented institution whose work is focused on "matters directly related to race and ethnicity", more specifically falling under three overlapping headings: discrimination, diversity and opportunity; race in public policy; and leadership in connecting communities. The Civil Rights Project site includes policy reports and documents, "civil rights alerts", notices of conferences, and links to government and non-governmental web sites. Two recent
BBC - The Law Essential Guides - Racial Abuse
rather than violent, and the solution can often lie in civil law rather than claimto court and help is also available from the Commission for racial equality.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/law/racialabuse.shtml

Extractions: The Race Relations Act was created to protect people against this kind of abuse, and get justice. The Race Relations Act was passed in 1976 to protect people against discrimination or abuse on the grounds of race, colour, nationality or ethnic background. It doesn't outlaw racial prejudice as such - only education and contact will achieve that - but it does offer considerable protection against most problems encountered at work, at school, in banks, pubs, clubs or restaurants. The definition of racial harassment in the law does not specifically include religious groups, but some of these, including Jews and Sikhs, are almost certainly covered because of the way the courts have interpreted the act. The House of Lords for example decided that Sikhs did constitute an "ethnic" group because they had a long shared history and a cultural tradition of its own, along with a common geographical origin, a common language and literature or common religion different from neighbouring groups. How does the Act work?
Just Ask! About The CLS Legal Information Leaflets
The website of The law Society The website of The law Society. was written by Consumers'Association in association with the Commission for racial equality.
http://www.justask.org.uk/leaflets/help.jsp?lang=en&leaflet=leaflet021
Historical And Modern Perspectives Of Racial Equality By Jennifer Zahn
Historical and Modern Perspectives of racial equality Res Publica Therefore, by thesetokens, equality lacked any association with the natural law that held
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/respub/v8n2/zahn.html

Extractions: by: Jennifer Zahn We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. These lines, penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, have established a legacy of equality for the citizens of the United States since its birth in 1776. Throughout history, this legacy has been open to many interpretations. Questions of equality have been continually raised regarding race, sex, and other distinctive factors that separate humanity. Many have speculated about Jefferson's true meaning when he mentioned equality in this excerpt from the declaration , the United States' original proclamation that made its inhabitants "one people." These words created, among Americans, a moral bond of principle, and the factors of time and circumstance have shaped the meaning in a variety of ways. However, Jefferson did have a distinctive meaning implied within his words. What was the intent of the father of these eloquent phrases, the author of these expressions that lay the foundation of equality in America? In dissecting the opening phrase, "We hold these truths to be self-evident," one finds that Jefferson asserted a powerful concept. That is, the mind can perceive what is truly right. Once one reflects on that truth he cannot deny it thus making the truth self-evident. However, it is important to note that these truths are not innate; otherwise every political system would be based on these principles, and that in itself makes the American regime most unique. The first self-evident truth states that all men are created equal. Jefferson, being a student of political theorist John Locke, perceived all men as equals in the sense that they are equally free. This does not imply that all men are equal in their talents and intellectual faculities. All men are free based on the commonality of their humanity. Thus humanity is the only requirement.
Course Details
This course will address various contemporary questions concerning the ways inwhich constitutional and statutory law address issues of racial equality.
http://lawreg.stanford.edu/stanford/prereg/CourseDetails.asp?cClschedid= 21166
Race Equality West Midlands - Our Aims
As the collective voice of racial equality work across the West Midlands, the Raceequality West Midland implementation of race relations law and related
http://www.rewm.org/aims.htm

Extractions: Ethnic minorities constitute 12 per cent of the population of the conurbation. All major urban centres of the West Midland conurbation, apart from Solihull, are served by racial equality councils or partnerships. Of the West Midland shires, Worcestershire and Shropshire each have a county-wide racial equality service, while Staffordshire is provided for by three flourishing racial equality councils in Burton, Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent. Warwickshire has two district racial equality councils at Leamington Spa and Rugby, while Herefordshire has just set up a racial equality partnership. The ethnic minorities make up less than 2 per cent of the population of the West Midland shires but, because individual families live in relative isolation in these areas, they require the most support. Racial equality services, while provided locally, are co-ordinated at a regional level by Race Equality West Midlands, a forum consisting of the fourteen racial equality council and partnership. As the collective voice of racial equality work across the West Midlands, the Race Equality West Midland forum gives strategic direction, and ensures the effective implementation of race relations law and related policy regionally.
Your Thoughts On Achieving National Security Via Racial Equality
remains our strongest argument for achieving full racial equality and eliminatingall become constituents of local, state or federal law enforcement supervision
http://home.pacbell.net/veterans/letstalk.htm

Extractions: American National Security via Racial Equality TOPIC: An Argument for Achieving Full Racial Equality in America Virtually all of humankind's wars and social conflicts are rooted in race, history's color-coded means of identifying economic competitors. The United States of America was created specifically to create a single nation democratically and spiritually open to all of God's self-image, the human race. Those among our Founding Fathers who argued bitterly for an end to slavery on our continent briefly compromised their desire for full equality for all so that the Colony representatives participating in the construction of our Constitutional and national government would first agree to unite... and, hopefully... later agree to abolish human subjection of one race by another. Their principle reason for compromise, amidst a bitter war against a hostile and brutal foreign power, was needed to solidify and guarantee American national security before we as a nation could guarantee full domestic security for each and every American living between our two shining seas. As history has recorded, it was only at that precise moment when our national security was guaranteed from foreign attack, in 1860, that we re-opened our national discussion for achieving domestic security. Unfortunately, uncompromising individuals and organizations in the South refused to end their unfair business practice of developing internationally competitive products produced from cost-free labor... in direct competition with their industrial competitors in the North. War broke out.
How Is Discrimination Law Enforced?
Advice on discrimination can be obtained from the Citizens Advice Bureau , locallaw centres, the Commission for racial equality and the Equal Opportunities
http://g.bcentral.co.uk/0BCUK5/049661014986000005

Extractions: Visit an eSecurity Seminar You're in: Home Administration People management Legal requirements ... Discrimination FAQ The Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal... The Stationery Office How is discrimination law enforced? The Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission both work to tackle discrimination, and both issue codes of practice to promote equality between races and sexes in the workplace. These codes are not law, but companies are expected to take effective measures against the possibility of discrimination. If a company is judged not to have tackled discrimination properly, employees could take company officials to an industrial tribunal and they could be held responsible for acts of discrimination. Advice on discrimination can be obtained from the Citizens Advice Bureau , local law centres, the
What Is The Law On Discrimination At Work?
Related articles. How is discrimination law enforced? The Commissionfor racial equality and the Equal ..more The Commission
http://g.bcentral.co.uk/0BCUK5/049661014983000005

Extractions: Visit an eSecurity Seminar You're in: Home Administration People management Legal requirements ... Discrimination FAQ It is illegal to discriminate against someone on... The Stationery Office What is the law on discrimination at work? It is illegal to discriminate against someone on the grounds of their sex, race, disability, or trade union membership or non-membership; this applies not only when recruiting or dismissing staff, but also during the course of their contract. So, for example, wages, promotion chances, training, fringe benefits and the allocation of work are all areas where a company must ensure that discrimination does not take place. The key Acts of Parliament that outlaw such discrimination are: In line with EC Employment and Race Directives, the UK government is obliged and is planning to introduce new laws covering discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and religion in employment and training by 2003, and on grounds of age by 2006.
Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council
how the County Council's and departmental equality policies support the backgroundand to raise awareness of racial discrimination. Nationality law and Practice.
http://www.wellingboroughrec.org.uk/Training Brochure 2002.htm

Extractions: Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council Training Brochure For the past six years Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council has been offering a programme of courses to statutory and voluntary agencies as well as to commercial organisations. The courses are tailored to the individual requirements of each agency with course material reflecting the working environment of the commissioning body. The demand for these courses has increased significantly and the courses have now been refined to suit the needs that are being requested. The courses adopt of a holistic approach of giving some information amount the legislative framework of the issue together with practical learning opportunities of dealing with situation relevant to the environment where the course is being commissioned Past Courses have included: Training courses can be arranged "in-house" (for up to 15 participants) or by arrangement.Training is undertaken by proven practitioners with extensive experience
Wellingborough Race Equality Council
District racial equality Council can offer training courses and consultancy/equalityaudits on the following Introduction to discrimination law(s
http://www.wellingboroughrec.org.uk/training.htm

Extractions: tel (01933) 278000; fax (01933) 272409; email racialeq@aol.com TRAINING and CONSULTANCY Wellingborough District Racial Equality Council can offer training courses and consultancy/equality audits on the following: Training courses can be arranged "in-house" (for up to 15 participants) or by arrangement. For a more detailed copy of our training brochure - click here Over the recent period we have undertaken training and consultancy with the following companies and organisations. Some training has been undertaken jointly and in a partnership between Wellingborough REC and other organisations (these are indicated in brackets): Telfer Foods Limited - Northampton (with Wellingborough Black Consortium) Northamptonshire County Council - various departments Wellingborough Primary Care Group and doctors surgeries (with Wellingborough Black Consortium) Leicestershire Education Department (with Peterborough REC) Northamptonshire Citizens Advice Bureaux User Support Service - Northamptonshire Northampton Healthcare Trust (with Northamptonshire Police) Training and consultancy is undertaken by proven practitioners with extensive local and national experience.
The Saturday School Program At Harvard Law School
Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a professor at Harvard law School, will address the UN ofthe UN into question, especially on issues of racial equality, is absurd.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/saturday_school/article_082901.shtml

Extractions: The United Nations conference against racism will be the most significant forum for the discussion of racial issues on the world stage in a generation, yet even at this late datethe conference begins Friday in South Africait remains uncertain whether the U.S. will boycott it. Why? Slavery reparations and other issues. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said he would not attend the conference, noted earlier this summer that a boycott would be justified because "getting into slavery and compensation and things of that nature ... would detract from the purpose of the conference" and would leave it mired in "past political issues and past events." This is a regrettable position for Powell to take, for he is in fact the ideal representative for America to send to a discussion about race. In his bestselling autobiography, "My American Journey," Powell eloquently addressed the complex issue of national and international racial problems, and could provide the conference with his indispensable and timely perspective. There may be no figure in American public life today who is more respected by black and white, Republican and Democrat, rich and poor alike.
Equity Initiatives
This report contains the law Society's response to the recently released CanadianBar Association's report on racial equality in the Canadian legal profession.
http://www.lsuc.on.ca/equity/publications.jsp
Racial Equality
Highlights. 0604-02 ACLU, ADC and Relman law Firm Sue Four Major AirlinesOver Discrimination Against Passengers. fight for racial equality.
http://archive.aclu.org/issues/racial/hmre.html

Extractions: The Declaration of Independence ACLU, ADC and Relman Law Firm Sue Four Major Airlines Over Discrimination Against Passengers Three Students Charge Illinois State Police with Racial Profiling in Vehicle Stop Doctors, Educators, Civil Rights Leaders Across CA Vow to Defeat Dangerous "Race Information Ban" ACLU Calls Voinovich-DeWine Racial Profiling Bill A Small Gesture, Not Legislative Solution Death Penalty Position Paper The Case Against the Death Penalty , by Hugo A. Bedeau
Racial Equality In Justice System
The Criminal Justice System and racial equality. Based upon increasing racial conflictsover the fair American experts, including Harvard law Professor Charles
http://www.nccd-crc.org/policy/crimjust.htm

Extractions: There is a growing sentiment in America that the justice system is not an impartial purveyor of justice, but rather a vehicle by which racism continues to adversely affect the development of our society. There is little question that the justice system is facing a crisis of legitimacy that is especially acute in communities of color. Based upon increasing racial conflicts over the fair enforcement and administration of laws, this crisis is one that has continued to escalate in recent years, resulting in greater rates of minority victimization, incarceration, and death. A 1995 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of blacks and 45 percent of whites think the criminal justice system treats blacks more harshly than whites. Supporting this contention, the U.S. Department of Justice found in that same year, only 31 percent of blacks nationwide "expressed a great deal or quite a lot" of confidence in the police, as compared with 65 percent of whites.
Wiltshire County Council Commitment To Anti-Racist Practices Statement
Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, 6 Commission for racial equalitys Standard forLocal Government. 7 Recommends producing one antidiscriminatory law and a
http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/policy/equality.php3

Extractions: Statement of County Councils Commitment to Anti-Racist Practices We in Wiltshire believe and assert that all persons have the inalienable right to be treated with equal dignity, respect, consideration and without prejudice and to be given equal access to all our services without regard to race, colour, nation-ality, culture, languages spoken, religious beliefs, creed, ethnicity. We judge each person by his and her ideas, values, actions and character and not by his and her racial origins, religion, community or culture. Each of us is equal and different. We in Wiltshire County Council will not tolerate any form of discriminatory behaviour by our employees or by those using our services. We will take all external as well as internal complaints seriously and we will ensure that our procedures allow open, constructive and healthy challenge both from within as well as from outside the organisation. We in Wiltshire celebrate, encourage and enjoy the benefits that come from our peoples ethnic, cultural, language, religious and other diversities. We believe that our cultural diversity as well as our individual and communal differences enrich all our diverse communities within the community of Wiltshire. In order to ensure that we succeed in fulfiling our commitment to the inalienable right to equal access we, in Wiltshire, will:
NARA | Prologue | Prologue: Special Issue On Federal Records And African America
The passage of Public law 102526 in 1992 requiring government-wide of both Presidentswith civil rights leaders and opponents of racial equality provide an
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/summer_1997_equality_in_the_sixtie

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Refugee Women And The Law Conference 2003
Aliya Elagib, Refugee Womens Network, UK. · Minoo Jalali, Avon and BristolLaw Centre, UK. · Beverley Bernard, Commission for racial equality, UK (TBC).
http://www.ucc.ie/law/rlc/RLCInfo.html

Extractions: REFUGEE WOMEN AND LAW: GENDER, INTERCULTURALISM AND ASYLUM IN IRELAND One Day Conference: Saturday 8th March 2003 The conference aims to promote greater recognition of gender-related persecution as a basis for refugee protection. It will bring together refugee women, human rights groups, academics, refugee determination bodies, UNHCR, public officials and others interested in ensuring that women fleeing gender related persecution receive protection. The conference will highlight the gendered forms of racism that refugee women face and the need to integrate a gender perspective into intercultural and anti-racism policies. PROGRAMME Registration and Tea / Coffee Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:45 am 1:00 pm Session One Pia Prütz Phiri, UNHCR Representative in Ireland Deborah Anker, Harvard Human Rights Program and Refugee Law Attorney, USA Berenice ONeill, Refugee Applications Commissioner, Ireland Colin Harvey, Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law, University of Leeds, UK Lunch Session Two Aliya Elagib, Refugee Womens Network, UK

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