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 23 February: A Palestinian refugee takes legal action against the Home
On Monday 19 February, Ibrahima Bah, a young person from Senegal, was found guilty by a jury of ‘facilitating a breach of immigration law’, and four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence. This is the second time he was hauled before a jury to relive the traumatic events of that night, as the first
6 – 20 February 2024 We share the outrage of migrant and refugee advocacy groups such as JCWI, SOAS Detainee Support, Care for Calais and Captain Support UK, at the cruel prosecution of Ibrahima Bah, from Senegal, that has led to his unjust conviction for facilitating illegal immigration and manslaughter. Bah, as we document in
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 8 February: After judges in Catania rule unlawful new provisions for
Palestinian journalists in Gaza, travelling on foot, living in tents and with little access to food and water, have shown monumental courage and commitment to their profession. They have carried on working even as family members are killed, and they have risked their lives to expose Israeli atrocities. According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate,
25 January – 6 February 2024 Our intention, in publishing every two weeks a thematic and cross-cutting calendar on racism and resistance, is to provide our readers with a useful summary of campaigning strategies, new research and legal interventions launched by advocacy organisations, individuals and families impacted by racism. Reading across the various sections we
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 23 January: The high court finds that the Home Office operated a
9 – 24 January 2024 This week, as reported in the Guardian, we have published a ground-breaking research article in Race & Class, co-authored by APPEAL’s Nisha Waller and Naima Sakande, on Majority Jury Verdicts in England & Wales: A Vestige of White Supremacy? The article lays bare for the first time how anxieties around a potential detrimental impact
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 11 January: Nadia El-Nakla, the wife of Scotland’s first minister and
19th December 2023 – 9th January 2024 Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott
