There are grounds for hope for improvement in detainees’ health treatment, but vigilance is still needed. The NHS takeover of immigration detainees’ health care was perhaps the only positive news on 1 April, when the coalition’s ‘great benefits reform’ was inaugurated at the same time that most housing, debt, employment, social security and immigration advice
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Converging against G4S
Stop G4S campaigners will hold a second convergence in London to coordinate activities against the multinational. Human rights campaigners and activists working as a coalition have organised a second day of workshops and discussion ‘dedicated to developing the campaign against G4S and preventing them from putting profit before people.’ Workshops will be held on subjects
State intelligence and the European far Right
Can European security services and law enforcement agencies be entrusted with policing the far Right? Far-right and neo-Nazi violence – on the increase across Europe – is the subject of ongoing research by the Institute of Race Relations which releases today an interim report on the security services’ approach to the far Right in Austria,
Immigration detention: more evidence of contempt for the mentally ill
Another case of unlawful detention demonstrates that UKBA officials intent on detention and removal sometimes don’t even read psychiatric reports suggesting detention might be damaging. Previous cases involved foreign national offenders (FNOs),[1] whose detention was an important political priority for UKBA. But the hard line on detention appears to have spread to refused asylum seekers.
Far Right targets Islamic events
The far Right, using information from an anti-extremist student body, is trying to sabotage Islamic events. Casuals United, under the guise of No Platform for Islamic ‘hate preachers’, has been distributing the addresses and phone numbers of the venues, from Newcastle to Reading, Birmingham to Essex, where Islamic preachers are billed or Muslim educative days
Cuts, crime and racialisation
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice. The young unemployed, often excluded from every institution and avenue, are unwanted. The dragnet of Joint Enterprise,
Gove’s history curriculum condemned
Michael Gove’s reform of the national history curriculum has caused widespread concern. The Department for Education (DfE) is currently hosting a consultation on reforms to the national curriculum that will affect children from primary school-age to Key Stage 3. The consultation is aimed at school teachers, parents, young people, employers and local authorities among others,
IRR News 22-28 March 2013
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, we report on Michael Gove’s latest proposals to change the history curriculum and Frances Webber has also written a post for CagePrisoners on the denial of citizenship. And we still have a few spaces left for the book launch hosted by Race & Class for Barbara Ransby’s book on
IRR News 15-21 March 2013
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week we have articles on a new petition on joint enterprise laws and on new research that has found that black and minority ethnic children are far more likely to be excluded from school. In news from across the UK, Gary Dobson who was convicted of the racist murder of
Calls to sign joint enterprise petition
Campaigners are calling for signatures on a new petition which calls on David Cameron to reform joint enterprise laws. A new petition by the campaigning group, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), calls on the prime minister to ‘Help get rid of the 300-year old law that is imprisoning our children’. According to the