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| | IRR: Victims of racist harassment need independent support groups, research finds |
 | | A study, published this week by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has found that independent, community-based support groups offer victims of racism a sense of empowerment and a validation of their experience that they are not finding from other agencies, such as the police, housing departments or racial equality councils. |
 | | Kusminder Chahal, who led the research, said that interviews with victims of racist harassment revealed that they felt disempowered, lacked knowledge of what could be done and were fatalistic about the chances of change. |
 | | Racist harassment support projects: their role, impact and potential by Kusminder Chahal is published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, July 2003. |
| www.irr.org.uk /2003/july/ak000009.html (971 words) |
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