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Great Britain is celebrating its Black History Month against a backdrop of racial tension.

"I've never known it so tough … It's bad right now" says Simon Woolley, 48, who is a member of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission.

I would like to congratulate Mr Lutfur Rahman on his victory. He has huge task ahead of him. He needs to create a cross party cabinet and bring together experts and advisors who would work to deliver an inclusive, prosperous and vibrant Tower Hamlets.

I would suggest to Mr Rahman, the first directly elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets to make a five point plan to make Tower Hamlets a place that locals would feel proud to work and live.

Here is my suggested five-point plan:  

The chair of the Commons home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz has reported that he has ‘huge concerns’ over the government’s indecision to implement firm policy guidelines to stop private firms using 'forceful' restraint against deportees.

The Home Office had apparently banned private security firms from forcibly putting detainees onto commercial flights and then lifted the ban 10 days later.

A Remembrance march to call the government’s attention to the increasing numbers of deaths in custody will take place this Saturday.

The March organised by the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) will start at Trafalgar Square in a silent procession along Whitehall to Downing Street.

The former children TV presenter and new Liberal Democrat Peer has given a revealing insight into her growing up and the challenges she faced.

Speaking to the Independent newspaper she details the racism she suffered growing up in Beckenham, South East of England, she said:

Uncovering and reporting on death, destruction, and unspeakable atrocities must be about as harrowing as any job gets. We can never imagine the bravery needed in going unarmed into a war zone where some combatants from either side would rather kill you than talk to you.

One man almost stands alone in his endeavour to bring to the world those uncomfortable truths that great powers across the globe seek to hide:  The Independent’s Robert Fisk.

Human rights campaigns group Black Mental Health UK has welcomed the  Care Quality Commission’s  (CQC) first annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act , which has highlighted human rights concerns in the treatment of detained patients.

This new report entitled ‘Monitoring the use of the Mental Health Act 2009/10’ has shed light on practices which are likely to violate human rights law.

200 cameras controversial ‘spy cameras’ put up in Muslim populated areas of Birmingham must be removed, West Midlands chief constable of Police told a Police Authority meeting.

The Police Authority heard from a report which found that there were no justifiable reasons for the decision by police to have put up the cameras.

Anti racist group United Against Fascism (UAF) are holding a march on November 6 in London in which they hope will bring together the widest possible alliance against the English Defence League and their political wing the British National Party.

Two Members of Parliament have added their support to the demo by adding their names to the statement backing the demo, which is called by UAF and backed by the TUC, the Muslim Council of Britain and a range of trade union leaders, faith and community groups.

Community treatment orders (CTO) are being handed out to mental health patients at 10 times the rate intended when they were introduced two years ago, new research shows. Dame Jo Williams wants to know why

Community treatment orders are the most recent incarnation of the structures designed to support 'care in the community', and have remained controversial since their introduction in November 2008.