Tragic cases like the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter could be repeated because police officers are too embarrassed to ask victims of crim...

The leader of an Amish breakaway group who allegedly forced his victims to sleep in a chicken coop has been convicted of planning hate crimes by cutti...

Hate crimes against disabled people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland went up by 33% in 2011, figures have shown. More than 2,000 crimes took ...

Module One of the judge led Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press following the phone-hacking scandal at News of the World, took evidence in Module One of the relationship between the press and the public.

Three Muslim men have been found guilty of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation after distributing a leaflet that said Islam called...

Police investigating the "horrific" Boxing Day murder of an Indian student have offered a £50,000 reward and apologised to the victim's family after ...

The father of an Indian student shot dead at point blank range in Salford on Boxing Day has told how he learned of his son’s death on Facebook. ...

There has never been a time when a racial utopia has existed and I doubt such a thing could ever exist, but we are losing sight of what makes the UK a racially tolerant and welcoming society. It is time for us to bring the discussion of race relations back to the forefront.

I think it is fair to say that a fair amount of the onus to combat these attitudes towards disabled people lie with disabled people themselves by constantly providing a positive representation of disabled people.

Every few months in the UK (and in the US and elsewhere, for that matter), there's a shocking news story about a sustained, and often fatal, attack on a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable and fundamental truth about how our society treats its most unequal citizens.