Public figures and the media have a duty to “explicitly reject hate speech”.

The British government could make progress on many of the recent United Nations demands to improve race equality in the UK in just one year, the head of the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said recently.

Anastasia Crickley, who chairs the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (#CERD), said that many of her committee’s recommendations, which were announced in August, could be implemented by Theresa May’s government within the next 12 months.