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Hunting community take legal action to become a Protected minority group.
They have good chance of obtaining the same status as Gypsies and LGBT people, campaigners say writes Hayley Dixon in the Telegraph.
Pro foxhunting group says UK hunters should be protected ethnic minority. Chair of Hunting Kind says he has built legal case to obtain same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people writes Matthew Weaver in the Guardian.
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Fox Hunting campaigners say they deserve the same protection as minority groups because of the discrimination they encounter.
Fox hunters in the UK want protected status under discrimination law. A lobbying group is preparing a bid to define hunting with animals as a protected belief. Many experts have questions writes Amelia Nierenberg in the New York Times
Rural Britons are victims of the tyranny of the urban majority. The Hunting Act infringes on the human rights of a sizeable minority – and has demonstrably failed the fox writes Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph
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Some animal rights groups belong on MI5’s watch list -fox hunters must be a protected minority.
Former Army captain Ed Swales says it should be illegal to discriminate against those who are pro-hunt – and he’s prepared to go to court, writes Abigail Buchanan in the Telegraph.
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Fox hunters 'should be protected under equality laws' like Roma and LGBTQ+ people, campaign group claims as it seeks legal protection for those who have pro-hunting views writes Colin Fernandez for the Daily Mail.
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In a bid to gain protected status under the Equality Act 2010, fox hunters are mounting a legal challenge.
Trisha Goddard speaks to Rupert Bell and Lyn Sawyer.
Stephen Nolan talks to Ed Swales and a representative from PETA.
I believe natural hunting could be legalised but we need to reject the failed strategies of the past and adopt Hunting Kind's fresh approach writes Jamie Blackett in Scribehound.
The chair of Hunting Kind says those who hunt foxes should be afforded the same protection as Roma and LGBTQ+ people. writes TLE in The London Economic
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Hunting Kind says that fox hunters should count as an ethnic group under the Equality Act, but it wouldn’t give them the right to hunt foxes
