Twentieth Anniversary Of The 1976 Race Relations Act

EDM number 1213 in 1995-96, proposed by Dafydd Wigley on 23/07/1996.

That this House welcomes the 20th Anniversary of the Race Relations Act 1976 and its aims of promoting a society free from racial discrimination on the grounds of a person's colour, ethnic origin, race or nationality; congratulates the Commission for Racial Equality and its Commissioners established under the Act for the work undertaken in the last 20 years in attempting to achieve this laudable aim; and calls on all political parties to campaign for a just society which gives everyone an equal change to learn, work and live free from discrimination and prejudice, and from the fear of racial harrassment and violence.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.