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stressing the importance of the role of the police, as well as to all local
authorities, particularly those responsible for education, and to more than
6,000 interested persons and bodies throughout the country. The Group was
reconstituted in 1995 and is to submit a report in 1996.
B.
Other measures
92.
Alongside the legislative measures, other measures are being taken to
ensure equal opportunity, improve the living conditions of members of ethnic
minorities and encourage their integration into British society.
93.
There is, for example, an inner cities rehabilitation programme aimed
primarily at ethnic minorities. The programme’s objectives are as follows:
(a)
To encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and the creation of new
businesses, by helping existing businesses to develop;
(b)
To improve employability through educational and training
activities and other types of initiative;
(c)
To improve living conditions by cleaning up abandoned zones,
encouraging construction and improving the quality of housing;
(d)
To restore security to inner cities and make them into places
where it is enjoyable to live and work.
94.
As optional measures, the Labour Ministry has drawn up a 10-point plan,
launched in 1992, to give employers practical advice on how to provide equal
opportunities to employees who are members of ethnic minorities. Copies of
this plan were sent to 36,500 employers having at least 50 employees. The
plan aims at drawing the attention of employers to the need to make equal
opportunity a basic principle that is fully integrated into their management
practices.
95.
In order to facilitate access by ethnic minorities to high-level jobs,
the Windsor Fellowship concentrates exclusively on management training for
ethnic minority students with excellent university credentials. This training
is supported by private enterprises that sponsor the students and can hire
them after their training.
IV.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
96.
Following his mission, the Special Rapporteur notes that British
universalism is increasingly tending to be reduced to the European Union, and
the original civilizing and humanist mission of the United Kingdom is being
eroded. In order to provide for a fresh look at that mission, the Special
Rapporteur reiterates the recommendations contained in his general report
(E/CN.4/1996/72), to which the British authorities showed themselves to be
responsive at the recapitulatory meeting on 24 November 1995:
(a)
Educate individuals to accept others;