Petition Hair Colour Discrimination

More details

Great Britain has a strong stance against discrimination on grounds of race, colour, disability and sexuality, yet discrimination on the grounds of hair colour, specifically red hair, is still ignored.

The UK Commission for Racial Equality refuses to recognise "gingerism" as a hate crime. In May 2009 a schoolboy committed suicide after he was bullied due to his red hair.

I ask the government to address this issue, by making hair colour discrimination a criminal offence, in line with racism and other discrimination.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

24 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 24 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 19 March 2014
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.