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SECTION 17.2<br />
Islamophobia<br />
Unfounded hostility towards Islam,which may result in unfair discrimination against Muslim<br />
individuals or communities and the exclusion of Muslims from mainstream political and social affairs.<br />
Lesbian<br />
A woman who is emotionally,physically and/or sexually attracted to women.Not all women are<br />
comfortable with the term lesbian and some choose to identify as either gay or a gay woman.<br />
Mainstreaming<br />
The integration of equalities into policy development,implementation,evaluation and review.Each<br />
part of the organisation accepts its own responsibility for promoting equality of opportunity and<br />
challenging discrimination.<br />
Minority ethnic people<br />
This term is widely used as a general term to refer to people who belong to an ethnic group numerically<br />
smaller than the predominant white group in the UK.This includes groups distinguished by their skin<br />
colour,as well as others,such as Irish,Turkish,Cypriot,Jewish,Sikh,Hindu and travelling people.<br />
Monitoring<br />
A process that involves collecting,storing,analysing and evaluating information,to measure<br />
performance,progress or change.Monitoring race equality involves collecting,storing,analysing and<br />
evaluating information about the racial groups to which people say they belong.Monitoring is also<br />
applied to collecting and analysing information about people’s gender,disability status,sexual<br />
orientation,religion or belief or age to see whether all groups are fairly represented.<br />
National origins<br />
National origins are not limited to‘nationality’in the legal sense of citizenship of a nation state,which<br />
an individual acquires at birth or through naturalisation.The Scottish Court of Session defined<br />
‘national origins’as‘identifiable elements,both historically and geographically,which at least at some<br />
point in time reveals the existence of a nation’.National origins may include origins in a nation that no<br />
longer exists e.g.Czechoslovakia or in a‘nation’that was never a nation state in the modern sense,such<br />
as‘the Basque nation’.<br />
Nationality<br />
An aspect of a person’s identity,conveying rights and duties and defined by a specific legal relationship<br />
between an individual and a state,through birth or naturalisation,which is recognised by that state.<br />
Nationality does not indicate a person’s ethnic origin.<br />
Policies<br />
The formal and informal decisions about how a public authority carries out its role or functions,meets<br />
its duties and uses it powers.It also covers unwritten rules of‘custom and practice’,provisions(activity<br />
which serves to provide for or meet the requirements or particular needs of people)criteria(the basis<br />
by which comparisons or judgements are made,often against particular reference points e.g.criteria<br />
for redundancy).