Tackling Racism and Discrimination in the UK: Inquiry Project

The report aims to create awareness and provide solutions to tackle discrimination and racism in the UK. It identifies various ways to tackle discrimination and racism in the UK, such as awareness campaigns, teaching anti-discrimination from childhood, taking legal actions, and having CSR activities.

Inquiry Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aim and objective............................................................................................................................3
Literature review..............................................................................................................................3
Your right to be safe from hate crime in the UK....................................................................3
Racism is unacceptable , but so are other types of discrimination and hate crime................4
What kind of treatment are you protected against..................................................................6
Where should you go if something happens to you?..............................................................7
Data collection.................................................................................................................................8
Data analysis....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION/ DISCUSSION .....................................................................................................9
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................10
Online-...........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Racism is the belief where people think that they are better than others on the basic of
status, profession, religion, skin colour and many others and due to which they treat bad with
others (Kleinberg and et. al., 2018). Hence, it is a illegal practice of country where people get
punished if they caught to perform such activities. On the other hand, hate crimes are those
incidents which is done to refuse racism activities. People do not accept any inequality type of
behaviour with them by their society and due to which they get demotivated. The following
report covers essay on hate crime, racism and inequalities in society and how to tackle such
issues. It also covers the right place where a individual should go and complain if they feel any
discrimination with themselves.
Aim and objective
This report aims to identify the ways of tackling racism, hostility and discrimination in UK.
Objectives of the report-
 To identify rights to be safe from hate crimes in UK.
 To identify the meaning and impact of racism, discrimination and other kind of hate
crimes faced by UK population.
 To aware people about the treatment against the protection of hate crimes in UK.
 To aware people about the place where they get justice for hate crimes.
Literature review
Your right to be safe from hate crime in the UK
From the perspective of Michelle Rogerson, 2019, Hate crime is also known as bias crime
or bias motivated crime which consist of performing all those illegal and unacceptable activities
within the society which can create bad impacts others. In other words, hate crimes are those acts
which is created by biasses against social groups. Examples of hate crimes are damage to
property, physical assault, bullying and many others. In context of UK, they recorded 105,090
hate crimes in the year 2020 which further interpretative that hate crimes have been increased by

8% as compared to 2019. most of the hate crimes are seen in race inequalities where it covers
72% of total hate crime in UK. On the other hand, records says that religious crimes reduced by
5% from last year. Most of the hate crimes related to religion is victim by Muslims. From last
few years this hate crime against Muslim religion is declines which will provide positive impact
on UK's Muslims.
In UK, according to their law of Public Order Act 1986, Racial and Religious Hatred Act, 2006
and Criminal Justice and immigration ACT, 2008, it is mentioned that any hate speech by any
individual which spread hatred within the society in context of different religion, colour, gender
and m,any others will forbidden. The individual have to pay fines or sent to jail for their
unlawful activities to spread hatred in UK (Devakumar, and et. al., 2020).
In against of any hate speech or hatred activities, people in UK can file a case against it in police
station so that legal authority will take action against it. A individual is free to speak against
these activities but not allowed to take physical actions against it. They are simply allow to file a
case against such activities.
Racism is unacceptable , but so are other types of discrimination and hate crime
According to Rifat Kamasak, 2019, Racism is unacceptable within the UK societies and
other countries. Racism are those unlawful activities like discriminating people against their skin
colour, religion and many other factors. People get demotivated when they get discriminated by
their society. People get mentally and physically weak by facing such issues because they get
pocked everywhere wherever they go like their offices, parts and others places (Calmon and et.
al., 2017). This will make them feel that they are good for nothing and some people with weak
mentality even think of finishing their lives. Hence, it is unacceptable by the people. In context
of UK, where there is diversity among their culture, religion, skin colour and many others. The
people of UK are well educated and trying to reduce their discriminated activities by various
kind of ways. UK schools taught their students about disadvantage of discrimination. In context
of UK, they get strikes and other ways to refuse for racism within the society. There are various
kind of discrimination which are explained below-
Age discrimination- here people get discriminated due to their older age which cause
many crimes within the UK like criminal deaths of senior citizen within the society, refuse to
provide benefits to older age employees within the workplace, forcing them to leave their jobs
and many others. According to Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 1967, any individual

who is founded to treat bad within the company against their senior employees in age will get
punished by the government of UK.
Disability discrimination- Here, those people get discriminated which are having
disabled weaknesses (Akhmedshina, 2020). They are seen as weaker part of society by others
because they are mentally and physically weak and due to this reason they are bullied a lot
within their society.
Sexual orientation- Discriminating any employee on the basis of their gender is called
sexual discrimination. Many of the organisations provide better opportunities to their male
employees as compared to female employees which is considered as wrong. In case any
company or any individual found to perform such activities will get punished by the law of UK.
Religious discrimination- In context of religious discrimination, it is done on the basis
different religious in the society. In context of UK, their Muslim religion get discriminated. After
2012-2013, this ratio of discrimination get declined. According to the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
if any employer found to be discriminating their employees on the basis of religion then they will
get punished. This type of discrimination if found in hiring, training and providing growth
opportunities (Benner and et. al., 2018). Employer do not hire those employees whose religion is
not liked by employer. Here, employer do not provide appropriate opportunities of growth to
their employees. Hence, this is very harmful for the society as it will damage the mental health of
employees within the company.
National origin discrimination- Here, employees get discriminated on the basis of their
birth place. This is done when two nations have bad relations with each other and their employee
is related to that nation.
All these discriminations are unacceptable within the society and organisations because
such kind of practices fall the morale of their employees to work. Secondly, this kind of
discrimination at workplace will also damages the culture of organisation which further impact
bad upon productivity of their employees (Quillian and et. al., 2017). Productivity and
profitability decline due to inequality at workplace. It further damages the brand image of
company. Hence, it should be avoided as much as possible for the betterment of human life and
quality of living standards. Discrimination within the society or nation will also impact bad for
national growth as most of the time employees and employer will conflict with each other and

did not work well. In case companies of a nation did not work well and unable to manage their
conflicts due to discrimination then they are unable to contribute to nation's growth.
What kind of treatment are you protected against
From the perspective of Fernne Brennan, 2016, Every individual need the protection
from discrimination and racism against them. Some of the laws and treatments help UK
employees and individuals in society to live freely against discrimination and few of the
examples are given below-
 The Equality Act 2010, according to this act a person is disabled if their mental and
physical health provides long term harm to their day to day routine. In simple words, a
disabled person is that person which is unable to perform their normal activities like get
out of bed, brushing teeth, taking baths and many other normal activities for longer
period of time due to their mental and physical health (Wu and et. al., 2018). The main
aim of this act is to protect disabled people to get benefited by other normal people
because of their weak health. According to this act a person will get punished if they
found to discriminate disabled person and did not allow them to live their normal life by
not distributing them resources. According to this law a disabled person have rights to get
educated, get medical facilities, buy houses on rents, allowed to use public transports and
many others. No one is allowed to stop these people to use these facilities.
 According to the UK Labour Law, it is essential for every company to provide
appropriate wages and all official benefits to their employees equally without
discriminating them against their skin colour, religion or nay other factors (Cheng and
Foley, 2018). Here, the labours working under manufacturing areas will be given
appropriate safety kits like helmets, leather gloves and many others to protect their life
from accidents and uncertainty. Hence, it is essential for every employer to provide this
safety kit to every one without discriminating them against their religion, skin tone,
language and many others.
 It is suggested to UK government that they can start various kind of campaigns which
aware people about the harm of hate crimes and racism within the society. These
campaigns must be promoted on various kind of social media sites because most of the
people get highly influenced by social media contents nowadays (Chen and et. al., 2017).
Today's youth influenced by social media content and also influence their social group or

family members without checking the reliability of content. Hence, due to this reason,
government is suggested to ban sites which spread hatred contents against people and
promote equality and non-discriminating society to influence the youth.
 The teaching of anti- discrimination against hate crimes will also help to develop the
mind set people to avoid such unlawful activities. If the concept of demerits of
discrimination is taught from childhood then it will create a well aware society which
oppose unlawful activities.
 Taking actions as soon as possible will also help to motivate people that their problems
can be resolved. This will motivate people to complaint openly to police about any
discrimination behaviour with faced by them in their society without any fear. Hence,
government must make sure that all complaints should be resolved as soon as possible to
mitigate such issues.
 Government law for the companies to have CSR activities will help backward society to
aware about their rights so that they can use them to develop their living of standards.
Most of the companies in UK, especially retailing companies perform CSR activities by
distributing their food products to backward people to motivate them that they are also
the part of society and they can use any public facility which is used by other normal
people.
Where should you go if something happens to you?
From the point of view of David Renton, 2018, There are various kind of ways to resolve
discrimination and racism activities by an individual. Some good habits to resolve this activities
are given below-
 In case a individual face racism then he/she must directly complaint to the person or
organisation's senior authority before taking any legal action so that they will be warned
to not repeat it again. This will help to maintain good image of victim and help to
maintain good relation with others.
 In case organisation or the individual who is discriminating continuously did not stopped
then the victim is supposed to take someone's help and make them understand all the
disadvantages for them who conduct racism (Korous, Causadias and Casper, 2017).
 Finally a individual is supposed to take the help of court after filing case in police
stations.

Some of the essential steps which should be followed while complaining about discrimination
and hate crimes are given below-
 always complaint in a written form about the discrimination. It is essential for a victim to
file a complaint in write form so that both parties will have proof of it.
 Highlight the use of discrimination and harassment again and again in report.
 Mentioning the type of discrimination is essential within the report.
 Mentioning the situation or condition where a individual face discrimination is essential
to be written in true and actual manner without adding some thing addition which is
hypothetical.
Data collection
 The following research collects data from UK population especially those who faces the
condition of racism and discrimination.
 A survey is conducted where questionnaire is distributed to analyse what people think
about racism and other hate crimes within their society and to analyse whether they are
ware about the treatment of hate crimes or not.
 Secondary data is also used in this research report where some of the published papers on
the topic of hate crimes in UK are reviewed.
Data analysis
 First of all the problem is identified within the society and researcher also get to know
that whether the problem in society require any valuable solution or not.
 Data is collected on the topic like primary and secondary data is collected on the topic of
racism and discrimination in the economy of UK and its impact upon people life.
 Data which is gathered is now sorted on the basis of its importance and reliability. Those
data takes in consideration which provide a meaningful fact about the topic and those
data get eliminated which are useless for the research.
 Conclusion is made.
 Qualitative and quantitative both data is used in this research report to identify the result.
 Primary as well as secondary data is used in the research report.

CONCLUSION/ DISCUSSION
From the above information it is concluded that discrimination is a unlawful activities and any
person found to act this activity then that person will get punished. There are various kind of bad
impacts upon an individual due to racism or hate crimes. A individual get mentally and
physically unfit by such discriminating activities. There are various kind of laws made for
resolving discrimination at workplaces.

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