Addressing institutional discrimination and inequalities associated with race and other protected characteristics takes commitment, evidence, leadership, legislative tools, a long term vision, support and time. There is always scope for improvements in the Public Sector Equality Duty’s (PSED) requirements and its practical application. The most important factor in ensuring the most effective implementation of the…
CORE (Coalition of Race Equality Organisations) brings together many of the UK's leading black and minority ethnic voluntary and community organisations for the promotion of race equality. In October 2010, CORE received a request from the Department for Communities and Local Government to produce a position statement to: inform the Government's development of a race equality strategy…
A coalition of the UK's leading black and minority ethnic voluntary and community organisations have produced a call to action for the promotion of race equality in post-election Britain. Designed to tackle continued discrimination and disadvantage in the UK, the call to action highlights 8 key asks which they hope the incoming Government will implement…
This year’s ROTA AGM and Conference held on November 28th was a great success with over 80 participating in a number of lively workshops and plenary sessions with great speakers: Suman Fernando, Yvonne Christie and Patrick Vernon. Transcripts and notes from many of the sessions are now here: Event Delegate Pack Presentation Slides: The whiteness…
On 15th November 2016 ROTA held the first of its series of workshops on the role of exploitation and discrimination within the workplace. The event was attended by 22 participants with presentations from Rosa Crawford of the TUC and Michael Reed of Free Representation Unit. Guest Speakers included: Michael Reed – Principal Legal Officer, Employment…
Context As a social action and research organisation ROTA places high value on the research carried out under its aegis, whether this is produced alone or in collaboration with others. ROTA recognises that the different types of output resulting from this research are key assets and should be managed in a way that brings most…
This video has been realised within the frame of the project 'PRISM: Preventing, Redressing, and Inhibiting Hate Speach in New Media'
We have History! ROTA is looking for a volunteer to research and write up ROTA's history and the impact we have had as a voluntary sector organisation. This project would suit someone who can carry out archival work, make contact with key individuals from ROTA’s past and present, retrieve campaign material and search out press…
Is our challenge your challenge? ROTA is offering a volunteer an exciting opportunity to develop a crowdfunding appeal for our organisation. We are looking for someone with knowledge of using social media and video, who could help us to identify potential funders, design the appeal and put together an attractive video clip to reach a…
David Harewood turns his skin white in order to persuade black and Asian people to vote in the forthcoming general election.