While we're thinking about human rights
While we're thinking about human rights, a British official is promoting conversations in the UK about race and immigration (see the excerpt below).To keep up with the topic or to find resources later when you're teaching about the UK, you can look at The Guardian's "Special Report on Race in the UK."
Kelly calls for 'honest debate' on multiculturalism
"The communities secretary, Ruth Kelly, today called for a 'new, honest debate" about rooting out extremism and argued it was 'not racist" to discuss immigration and asylum.
"She said Britain had moved away from a 'near-uniform consensus on the value of multiculturalism' and was facing challenges that threatened its record on uniting ethnic groups..."
posted by Ken Wedding @ 9:26 AM
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