Unfair treatment faith groups ’persists’, finds study

11 Sep 2013 Ten years after England and Wales' first law against religious discrimination a University of Derby-led project reveals institutions are making progress but that reports of unfair treatment from people of different religions or beliefs continue. Research for the report Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: A Decade of Continuity and Change was led by Paul Weller, Professor of Inter-Religious Relations at Derby, working with Oxford and Manchester universities. It covers the ten years since the 2003 Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations came into law; for the first time making it illegal in England and Wales to discriminate on the grounds of religion or belief. It was followed by the 2006 Incitement to Racial and Racial Hatred Act, and the 2006 and 2010 Equalities Acts.