Institute of Race Relations newspaper cuttings

Topics include:

- Several reports on the high unemployment in ethnic communities.

- Several cases of discrimination, mostly in pubs and night clubs, and various reports on industrial tribunals for discrimination in the workplace.

- Several reports covering the gynaecological examinations, known as ‘virginity tests’, applied to Asian women by the immigration services. These are thought to be abusive and are widely condemned.

- Several reports on Community Relations Councils regarding funding and internal politics.

- A large amount of reports relating to the National Front: they are banned from meeting in council halls; there is controversy over their annual conference to be hosted in Yarmouth; there are several reports on them handing out propaganda at schools; several reports on violence and the incitement of racial hatred.

- There are some reports on health services for ethnic minorities.

- There is broad coverage of the activities of anti-racist groups, primarily the Anti-Nazi League. There is also coverage of the organisation, Rock Against Racism.

- Several reports and opinion pieces on the case of Robert Relf from Oxford who went on hunger strike in prison after a 15 month sentence for race-hate crimes.

- There are a large amount of reports and debate about police discrimination of ethnic minorities, covering the views of anti-racism organisations, politicians, ethnic minorities and the police.

- There are some reports on the ‘bussing’ controversy, in which Asian schoolchildren are required to travel greater distances to school (and are thus transported by bus). Many Asian groups claim this is discriminatory.