Government breaching human rights commitments under UN racism treaty, report warns Joe Middleton © PA
The new report from the Runnymede Trust comes as a number of England players, including Marcus Rashford, suffered racial abuse after the Euro 2020 final against Italy - PA
The government is in breach of a UN treaty designed to eradicate racial discrimination, a new report has warned.
Research by the Runnymede Trust said that minority ethnic groups face sustained disparities across health, the criminal justice system, education, employment and immigration in England.
The authors write that they believe the government’s new approach to equalities will fail to improve these outcomes “and may in fact worsen them”.
England is systematically racist , think tank tells the UN
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