Tag Archives: hate crime
National Hate Crime Awareness Week- 14th to 21st October 2023
PRESS RELEASE Local group issues call to scrap the word “victim” to commemorate hate crime awareness week Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), a specialist support agency supporting local people targeted by hate crime has called for agencies dealing with … Continue reading
Homelessness – A Local Equality Issue
Quite rightly over the last few weeks, many of those with a social conscience have been focussed on homelessness and concern about those that find themselves without a home. There are a number of equalities issues that intersect with this … Continue reading
Reporting 1000 hate posts in four weeks
Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC) is asking you to support their sponsored Report Hate Crime event by donating as much as they can at http://www.localgiving.org/appeal/NRECStopHateCRISIS. We are attempting to remove 1000 illegal posts on Facebook in 4 weeks. … Continue reading
An Evening with Peter Tatchell On Tuesday Peter Tatchell hosted a lecture for NREC members to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week. The lecture was held at The University of Northampton. Peter explored various issues surrounding hate crime, discrimination and inequality … Continue reading
Volunteering at Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council
Here’s a blog post from one of newer volunteers Daniel Roberts. I’ve spent the past two weeks volunteering for the NREC (Booth Lane site) and while data analysis is research I’m experienced in, the nature of said data is not. … Continue reading
Hate Crime in a world without specialist officers
Hate crime Over the last forty years, local REC’s have been supporting hate crime victims and working together with other organisations to resolve incident and bring hate crime perpetrators to justice. Over the course of time Northamptonshire Rights and Equality … Continue reading
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