The Black Community and Human Rights
Client: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
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We were commissioned by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights to support the Committee with its aim to better understand the views, attitudes and perceptions of people from black community in the UK, in relation to their human rights. Given that there is no real evidence base to answer the questions that the Committee were interested to ask, this research was the first of its kind in the UK.
As part of our research we did some polling with a representative sample size of 515 black adults 16+ from across the UK. In addition to this, we also provided people in the black community with the opportunity to donate the amount they would have earned for taking part in our research to The Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation. This is the first time that polling has ever been used to support a charitable cause. Over 65% of participants donated and we were able to raise £1585 for The Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation. We 100% match-funded this donation and then made a donation of £3170 to the charity.
Our research also involved a number of interviews and exploration labs with people from the black community. Some of our key findings were that:
The majority (over 75%) of black people in the UK do not believe their human rights are equally protected compared to white people;
The vast majority (85%) of black people in the UK are not confident that they would be treated the same as a white person by the police; and
The majority of black people (over 60%) in the UK do not believe their health is as equally protected by the NHS compared to white people.
Our team presented our findings to the Committee members in September 2020. When our report launched it was referenced in over 6 national papers and across various TV and radio stations. (see here)
