A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 6 December: The director of Europol promises to ‘look again’ at the circumstances in which 500 refugees drowned in the April 2016 Mediterranean shipwreck after an investigation by Reuters/BBC Newsnight finds that no official body,
In the second part of her examination of EU deals with third countries to stop migration, Frances Webber examines the closure of Africa’s borders against migration, demanded by the EU as the price for development, trade and aid. The June-December 2016 progress report on Niger in the context of the Migration Partnership Framework[1] boasted that
Below we reproduce a statement made by the Rotherham 12 Defence Campaign following guilty verdicts on 15 December. The convictions of four far-right defendants[1] on 15 December at Sheffield Crown Court for violent disorder is a vindication for everything our campaign has stood for, especially the right of self-defence for a victimised community facing real
Are you passionate about racial justice? Do you have good organisational and administrative skills? Would you relish the opportunity of working in a small team to help develop one of the UK’s leading educational charities creating and disseminating analyses and information? If so, we might have just the job for you. The IRR is looking
Dear IRR News subscriber, Earlier this week, Dame Louise Casey published the findings of her 18-month, government-appointed review, into boosting ‘opportunity and integration in our most isolated and deprived communities’. And much media fanfare has ensured debates over integration are at the centre of political discussion. Today, IRR News publishes a series of short responses
Anger is building at the return of refugees from Europe to war zones and the EU’s deals with dictators and torturers to prevent refugees from leaving their own countries. In the first of two articles, Frances Webber looks at the EU’s deals with Afghanistan and Turkey. The second article will examine the deals with African
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 November: The malnourished body of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee who froze to death is found in an abandoned industrial building in northern Bulgaria near the Serbian border, the tenth known death of a refugee
A number of experts comment on the recently published ‘Casey Review: A review into opportunity and integration’. Dr Waqas Tufail: ‘Erroneous, misguided and dangerous’ The Casey Review represents the latest attempt by the state to intervene in the lives of British Muslims. The findings reached by Louise Casey are not new, original or surprising –
In a pioneering study published today, the IRR takes a fresh look at the nature of racial hate crimes since the referendum. Through a detailed examination of cases on the IRR’s unique database it establishes a link between the language and behaviour of perpetrators of such violence, the rhetoric and policy pronouncements of politicians over
Dear IRR News subscriber, The prospect of white nationalists getting hold of the reins of power is a terrifying one. And yet we have just witnessed Donald Trump, who recklessly utilised racism throughout his campaign, being elected as the 45th President in the ‘Land of the Free’ and see him now strengthening his administration with
