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Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda is to offer restorative practices facilitator training to members of the public in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission. There will be two, one-day workshops titled: Introduction to Restorative Practices...

The island’s tourism quango yesterday distanced itself from a letter from chief executive Kevin Dallas to warn senators that a vote to end gay marriage would adversely affect visitor numbers. Tourism minister Jamahl Simmons also criticised Mr Dallas ...

The man whose court victory paved the way for same-sex marriage in Bermuda said it would be a “monumental symbol” if the Governor refused to give assent to an Act designed to replace same-sex marriage with watered-down domestic partnerships. Winston...

The Bermuda National Gallery has teamed up with the Human Rights Commission to commemorate United Nations Human Rights Day. The public are invited to attended a free celebration and support students who will be giving presentations on art and activis...

Immigration legislation to “protect Bermuda for Bermudians” was passed in the House of Assembly last night despite vocal opposition. The new laws give the Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act priority over the Human Rights Act. Walton Brown, the Mi...

The Human Rights Commission has been invited to make submissions over controversial amendments to immigration legislation. The HRC and home affairs minister Walton Brown released a joint statement yesterday, in which they said they had held “candid a...

Bermuda’s civil liberties watchdog called on the Government to ditch “reckless” plans to undermine human rights laws yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Human Rights Commission warned that watering down the supremacy of human rights legislation over imm...

If you are truly content in your own skin then no one on this earth can make you feel inferior. Author and activist Florenz Maxwell learnt this valuable lesson as an adolescent in face of a society that treated black people as second-class citizens. ...

The Human Rights Commission has announced its backing of the same-sex ruling handed down by Justice Charles-Etta Simmons earlier this week. The judgment reinforces the Commission’s position that “the primacy of the Human Rights Act, 1981 should be u...

“On this continent, it has not taken us long to discover that the struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence. Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct ou...

Members of a small Muslim movement in Bermuda have launched a campaign to raise awareness about the real meaning of Islam after terror attacks around the world. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community says the aim of its True Islam campaign is to clarify misc...