Colour Bias 'Must Be Made a Crime'; Race Report Risks a Row
Byline: STEVE DOUGHTY
LAWS making racial discrimination a criminal offence were demanded yesterday in an official survey analysing where Britain's ethnic minorities live.
The call came in a report from the Office for National Statistics, which also urged the creation of all-embracing race codes for schools and the jobs and housing market.
Its demands, which would mean the police and courts enforcing the new laws, risk plunging the officially non-political ONS into controversy.
The ONS - formerly the Central Statistical Office - attached the suggestions to an analysis of race questions asked for the first time in the national census five years ago. …
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Article title: Colour Bias 'Must Be Made a Crime'; Race Report Risks a Row.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Mail (London).
Publication date: September 6, 1996.
Page number: 12.
© 2007 Daily Mail.
COPYRIGHT 1996 Gale Group.
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