Part V - Equality

The main problems of religious discrimination, which gave rise to the conflict, are not being dealt with. The equality agenda has been allowed by the British government to be politicized by unionist politicians and made virtually a dead end.

In 1999, it was revealed by a British government agency that Catholic males are now three times as likely to be unemployed as Protestant males and the proportion of Catholics in the long-term unemployment category has risen to 70%.

(Click for further info: INA Action Alerts on Equality and UUP)