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Asylum in Switzerland – out of sight, out of mind

Swiss asylum policy is characterised by institutional neglect within hostile systems designed to segregate and exclude. Feras Farees Abedal Motaleeb was a Palestinian refugee who, having fled from Iraq to Switzerland to save his life, found death in a remote Swiss valley, in an 8m² space in a metal container which he shared with two

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IRR News 6-12 June 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, we republish an article by Daniel Holder from the Belfast-based human rights NGO Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) on incitement to racial hatred in Northern Ireland. We also run an article on the recent death of Anowar Tagabo, a Darfuri student in Sheffield. Racially motivated violence has been

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Murder of Darfuri student in Sheffield

Police in Sheffield are investigating the death of 25-year-old Anowar Tagabo, a Darfuri refugee, who died following an attack. In the early hours of Sunday 25 May 2014, Anowar Tagabo, a peace and development student at Bradford University, was savagely attacked by a group of men and women near the Viper Rooms, Carver Street, Sheffield.

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‘Shopping for Peter’ and the question of incitement to racial hatred

Below we reproduce an article from RightsNI, by Daniel Holder, that analyses the controversy surrounding recent  comments made by Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Peter Robinson and evangelical Pastor James McConnell. On Saturday hundreds of people lined up outside Tesco in Belfast city centre clutching ‘I am shopping for Peter’ posters, in a creative anti-racist protest

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IRR News 30 May – 5 June 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, In a week when twenty leading educationalists and Muslim leaders have questioned Ofsted’s impartiality in the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, education consultant Robin Richardson analyses the factors behind its controversial recent inspections. We also publish a reflection by John Grayson on the ‘UKIP surge’ in South Yorkshire. In news from across

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Funeral of Christine Case to take place

Christine Case died while being held at Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre on Sunday 30 March 2014. Her family is asking concerned individuals to attend the funeral to show their support. Christine Case, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre near Bedford. Emergency services were called to the centre at around 8am but she

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Naming the Narratives: the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham

In a week when twenty leading educationalists and Muslim leaders have questioned Ofsted’s impartiality in the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, education consultant Robin Richardson reflects on the factors behind its controversial recent inspections. The Trojan Horse story in Birmingham is one in which carelessness, incompetence, coincidence, opportunism, self-interest and sheer wickedness all play significant parts.

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IRR News 23 May – 29 May 2014

Dear IRR News subscriber, In a week where extreme-right and anti-immigration parties have consolidated their presence in the European Parliament, we review two important reports on racial violence across Europe. The case studies provided by Amnesty International, Médecins du Monde and the Greek Council for Refugees are not only harrowing in themselves, but the way

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When the state is complicit in hate

Racist violence in Europe is sustained by cultures of impunity, as reports by Amnesty International, and Médecins du Monde and the Greek Council for Refugees make clear. Two reports published last month document in harrowing detail the reality and impact of racist violence across Europe, as well as its intensification against a backdrop of economic

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