The EHRC have launched their first review, download the seven hundred page report chapter by chapter by clicking here
Some snippets for your delectation:
On health:
It should be remembered that smaller ethnic groups that remain un-enumerated or hidden within larger categories, such as Somalis within the broad Black African group, may experience even worse health than the Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups.
Maternal mortality: In 2008 the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern over ‘The high rate of maternal mortality among all ethnic minorities [as well as high numbers of miscarriages and stillbirths particularly of women from Traveller communities]’. Black African women who are asylum seekers are estimated to have a mortality rate seven times higher than for White women, partly due to problems in accessing maternal healthcare.
Rates of admission and of compulsory detention in mental health institutions are higher among Black Africans, Black Caribbean, mixed White/Black Caribbean, White/Black African and also Black other groups which represents an enduring and worrying inequality – a factor which may be reflected in the higher rates of suicide among young Black Caribbean and Black African men aged 13-24 years set out in Chapter 6: Life.
Some snippets for your delectation:
On health:
It should be remembered that smaller ethnic groups that remain un-enumerated or hidden within larger categories, such as Somalis within the broad Black African group, may experience even worse health than the Bangladeshi and Pakistani groups.
Maternal mortality: In 2008 the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women expressed concern over ‘The high rate of maternal mortality among all ethnic minorities [as well as high numbers of miscarriages and stillbirths particularly of women from Traveller communities]’. Black African women who are asylum seekers are estimated to have a mortality rate seven times higher than for White women, partly due to problems in accessing maternal healthcare.
Rates of admission and of compulsory detention in mental health institutions are higher among Black Africans, Black Caribbean, mixed White/Black Caribbean, White/Black African and also Black other groups which represents an enduring and worrying inequality – a factor which may be reflected in the higher rates of suicide among young Black Caribbean and Black African men aged 13-24 years set out in Chapter 6: Life.
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