Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

 

Welcome to the IRR’s Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR). Here you will find archived calendar entries dating back to 2014. Use the filtered search functions in the right sidebar or simply type a keyword, place or name into the search box below.

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Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London, report shows
1 October 24
A review conducted by the UCL Institute of Health Equity, led by Sir Michael Marmot, finds that structural racism is exacerbating health inequalities in London, with inequalities in housing, employment and poverty resulting in poor health outcomes.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Majority of black people think racism played role in failure to test for prostate cancer
26 September 24
A survey finds that though Black men are twice as likely than the overall population to develop prostate cancer, 62 percent believe that racial discrimination prevented them or a loved one from accessing testing.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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NORDIC REGION: Doctors in Finland Warn Against Healthcare Restrictions for Undocumented People
17 September 24
The Finnish Medical Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility condemn as ‘problematic and damaging’ government proposals to ban undocumented migrants from entitlement to non-emergency health care.
Source: ECRE
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: Finland, Denmark, Sweden
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Germany blocks asylum applications from Palestinians, sharply criticised by leftists, human rights activists, doctors
23 July 24
It is revealed that an aid operation to evacuate 32 injured children from Gaza to Germany for medical treatment, supported by 40 organisations across the country, was vetoed by the Foreign and Interior ministries for security reasons. Seven of the children have reportedly since died.
Source: digit.so.36
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: Germany
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‘National disgrace’: black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated
23 July 24
A Guardian investigation shows that births of babies to Black mothers are almost twice as likely to be investigated for potential NHS safety failings. For every 1000 deliveries by Black women, there were 2.3 investigations, compared to 1.3 for white women.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Migration Fund
26 June 24
The mother of a 16-year-old autistic girl, who claims that a security guard at Kingston Hospital in London knelt on her daughter’s neck before a senior nurse dragged her across the floor, expresses concerns at the long delays in investigating her complaint that amounts she says to an ‘attempted cover-up’.
Source: London News
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Minority ethnic heart failure patients ‘36% more likely to die’ in UK
3 June 24
A University of Birmingham study finds that ethnic minority patients with heart failure are 36 percent more likely to die than their white counterparts. Ethnic minorities who also had atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm irregularity, were over twice as likely to die.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Black Mental Health & Wellbeing Alliance | Black Mental Health in the UK
29 April 24
The Black Mental Health and Wellbeing Alliance launches a Black Mental Health Manifesto, seeking to alter a system which fails black people when they are at their most vulnerable.
Source: BMHWA
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Disability benefits system to be reviewed as PM outlines “moral mission” to reform welfare
19 April 24
As the prime minister outlines his ‘moral mission’ to reform the disability benefits system, including reviewing Personal Independence Payments for mental health conditions and exploring alternatives to cash payments, charities say that the government has launched ‘a full-on assault on disabled people’.
Source: Gov.UK
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Black people who spot cancer symptoms are taking twice as long to be diagnosed as white people
9 April 24
 A new study shows that ethnic minorities face an average of one year’s delay between first noticing symptoms and receiving a cancer diagnosis, twice as long as white people.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Black women in England suffer more serious birth complications, analysis finds
8 April 24
 According to a  Guardian  analysis, Black women are up to six times more likely than their white counterparts to experience pre-eclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication that causes high blood pressure and protein in the urine.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Maternal mortality: One woman dies every four days in France
3 April 24
 A new report shows that 33% of the 272 maternal deaths recorded in  France  from 2016 –2018 were migrants, with those born in sub-Saharan Africa 3.1 times more likely to die than those born in France.
Source: Le Monde
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: France
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People seeking asylum in London face malnutrition, but there is scope for local action
12 March 24
A new report, Food experiences of people seeking asylum in London: areas for local action, finds that the food provided to asylum seekers by Home Office contractors is of such poor quality that some are ending up in hospital suffering from malnutrition, food poisoning and diabetes, with reports of children crying of hunger and losing significant amounts of weight.
Source: Sustain
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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Prepayment technology is socially and financially isolating UK asylum seekers: Study
11 March 24
Research by a team from Glasgow and Oxford universities finds that ASPEN prepayment cards issued to asylum seekers adversely impact mental health by isolating and stigmatising them and controlling their behaviour by not permitting them to buy culturally appropriate foodstuffs.
Source: phys.org
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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UK report reveals bias within medical tools and devices
11 March 24
The Equity in Medical Devices review raises concerns over the impact on ethnic minorities, women and people from deprived communities of biases in tools and devices using AI and those that measure blood oxygen levels.
Source: Guardian
Category: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Country: UK
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