Three Latvian men have been injured in a racist attack in Co Armagh.
The three, all migrant workers, were viciously beaten, and one was stabbed, in a park in Lurgan on Tuesday night.
The PSNI said it was the 38th racist incident in the locality since Easter.
The attack has been widely condemned by the political parties. Mr Jonathan Bell, a DUP Craigavon councillor, said he had employed the men and claimed the people of the borough were sickened by the incident.
The attack follows the latest hate crimes in north Belfast, where racist graffiti was sprayed on the homes occupied by members of ethnic minorities.
Last night the Anti-Racism Network organised "a show of solidarity" by local people in the Fortwilliam area of the city to support the Filipino and Chinese victims of racist incidents.
The attacks came as a cross-Border report found that the origins of prejudice were visible in schoolchildren as young as four. Researchers found a "wall of silence" in the North's primary schools when it came to issues of diversity and conflict which divide communities.
They also reported that children aged four to seven in the Republic's primary schools showed "elements that could be read as 'pre-prejudice' - varied levels of knowledge of racist or other exclusionary terminology".
According to the authors, schools see themselves as safe havens and have kept issues of local conflict beyond the school gates, often at the insistence of parents who "would not tolerate relationships with the other community".
The authors recommend that schools and teacher-training colleges adopt a "systemic commitment" to address issues of racism, diversity and tension between communities.
The report - Diversity in Early Years Education North and South: Implications for Teacher Education - consists of complementary studies of teachers' experience in 12 primary schools in the North and the Republic.
A further 23 schools replied to a survey questionnaire. The findings will be released in Armagh today at the Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South.
The researchers, drawn from Stranmillis University College in Belfast and St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, found that the majority of teachers and principals in Northern Ireland and in schools in the Republic's border region "stated that parents did not want the Northern Ireland conflict addressed in schools - this was seen as a major obstacle to addressing issues of religious conflict, or even to maintaining an Education for Mutual Understanding programme."
Some teachers said that issues of diversity in terms of the Northern Ireland conflict were not addressed in the early years of primary school but in later classes.