On 10 June, Tony Booth, Environment Officer with Jewish Voice for Labour, talked to Miroslav Klempar, a Rom based in Ostrava who works with Awen Amenca which is involved in supporting Roma arriving from Ukraine. Miroslav is particularly concerned about the treatment of Roma arriving from Ukraine in the Czech Republic. It is no
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Pearl Prescod: A Black life lived large
A new Black history project on the life of the Caribbean-British actor, singer and civil rights campaigner Pearl Prescod tells the largely overlooked story of a generation of anti-colonial artists and activists who questioned Britain’s role in the decades following World War Two. This biographical pamphlet produced by the Institute
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (25 May – 8 June 2022)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 26 May: Home Office data shows that 75
When racism has lethal consequences
IRR News 27 May – 9 June 2022 Later this month, a ground-breaking documentary film sharing the stories of nurses, midwives and healthcare workers and their experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic, will premiere in London and Sheffield. Part of a research project from Nursing Narratives, Sheffield Hallam University and Migrant Media,
Nursing Narratives: racism in the pandemic
Ahead of the London Premiere of EXPOSED – a ground-breaking documentary film that shares the stories of nurses, midwives and healthcare workers collected during a research project about the experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic – Anandi Ramamurthy writes on the key findings of Nursing Narratives. ‘We are not a
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (11 – 25 May 2022)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 15 May: It is revealed that people whose British spouses have died are facing destitution and deportation because the Home Office is charging a £2,404 administrative fee
Why can’t police acknowledge institutional racism?
IRR News 13 – 26 May 2022 How can an organisation become ‘actively anti-racist’ without acknowledging the existence of institutional racism? The National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing this week launched its Police Race Action Plan, tasked with ‘Improving policing for Black people’. Like so many plans and strategies before it, it is
From offshoring to policing: How governments learn from each other
IRR News 28 April – 12 May 2022 Our regular calendar of racism and resistance, which covers not only events in the UK but also across Europe, is not just an information-gathering exercise. We aim to provide our readers with opportunities to see how governments learn from one another. For instance, earlier this month, we
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (27 April – 11 May 2022)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 26 April: African students who fled Ukraine for France and are living in the city of Orléans, say they have only been granted one-month residence permits and told
Fighting regressive legislation: No defeat is ever complete
IRR News 14 – 28 April 2022 The fact that within the last 72 hours opposition in the House of Lords to four bills, including the Nationality and Borders Bill and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, has crumbled, is, to say the least, a setback for the struggle for racial and social justice.