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Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately falling faster and further below the poverty line amidst the cost of living crisis, according to a new report.

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New research will examine how women’s early experiences of employment shape long-term career paths and reinforce inequalities in the labour market.

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The experiences of seasonal fruit pickers in the UK have inspired a new folk song.

Artwork by Sarah Hannis showing seasonal workers arrive from their accommodation via a dusty farm track to the field. Part of Migrant Workers: Summer on a Strawberry Farm exhibition at Museum of English Rural Life

A new exhibition hosted by the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) explores the everyday lives of seasonal migrant workers in the UK's strawberry fields.

Progress in legalising same sex marriage in British Overseas Territories

Building on his work to advance equality and human rights, Professor Paul Johnson is one step closer to securing a Bill to allow same sex marriages in all British Oversea Territories.