Page 10 - Race Awareness Pocket Book
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Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act was established in 2010, which
covered not only race, but also gender and disability
(which had their own separate laws before too).
The idea was it would be one simple law that clearly
explained the ways in which it was illegal to treat
someone.
A significant number of people are still treated
differently because of the colour of their skin, their
religion, their sexuality or their gender.
Racial discrimination is still very common. You only
have to look at some of the things that people say on
social media to see that it is still a problem.
The UK has good laws to stop racial discrimination, but
it is one thing to make a law or a rule, and another
thing to actually change everyone's attitudes and
behaviour and get rid of discrimination completely.
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