11 November 2020
A Joint Committee on Human Rights report, ‘Black people, racism and human rights’, published this week, has drawn stark conclusions on inequalities in healthcare, criminal justice, immigration and democracy
In particular, the committee urged the NHS to set a target to end the maternal mortality gap where Black women are more than five times as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth, and for the Windrush Lessons Learned Review and Lammy Review recommendations on criminal justice to be implemented.
Committee chair, Harriet Harman QC urged the government to ‘take specific actions which will ensure Black people have equal human rights’.
