A day of action for the free movement of peoples and the demilitarisation of borders. Saturday 6 February 2016 Actions taking place: Rabat in Morocco – organised by sub-Saharan and Moroccan associations as well as activists and Human Rights initiatives in different Moroccan cities, such as the Conseil des Migrants, Africa Light, Alecma and AMDH Ceuta – activists and organisations like Podemos
Geography: France
Policing with accountability or policing with impunity?
Media stigmatisation of poor multicultural neighbourhoods of Europe as strongholds of Islamist terrorism and organised crime is lending legitimacy to a more coercive, more militarised style of policing. The Home Office is currently reviewing legal protection for police officers who shoot to kill as well as considering whether to transfer the lead role in fighting
Migrants Welcome
A demonstration in Calais in support of migrants as simultaneous demonstrations take place in Greece against the construction of a wall in Evros at the Greek-Turkish border. Saturday 23 January 2016 Calais Related links Further information in French
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-17 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing & criminal justice 3 December: Babacar Guèye, a 27-year-old Senegalese man, dies after being shot five times by a police officer in Rennes in north-west France. Guèye attempted to self-harm with a bread knife before his friend
Calendar of racism and resistance 2015
A reference tool for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe in 2015. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 11 January: Campaign groups Justice 4 Leon and the Faruk Ali Justice Campaign march together through Luton to show a ‘united front’, demanding justice for Leon Briggs and Faruk Ali. (Luton on Sunday, 11 January
After Paris
An overview of anti-Muslim violence and abuse in the UK since the Paris attacks. The terrorist attacks in Paris last month, killing 130 people and injuring 368 more, have been followed by anti-Muslim violence across Europe. In the UK, sixty-four religious or racially motivated hate crimes were reported to the police in Scotland in the week
Calendar of racism and resistance (20 November – 3 December 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 20 November: The House of Commons Justice Committee recommends the scrapping of the criminal courts charge in its report: Criminal courts charge. Second Report of Session 2015–16. Download it here. 23 November: The Centre for
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 November 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 5 November: Ropinder Singh calls for an inquiry into a protest outside the Indian High Commission after he was arrested and allegedly had his turban grabbed and thrown to the ground; fifteen others were
Calendar of racism and resistance (23 October – 5 November 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 October: The Home Office announces the closure of Dover immigration removal centre, Free Movement, 23 October 2015) 19 October: The Hope Project publishes: Destitute and asylum-seeking women in the West Midlands: Immigration issues and
Europe must act now on refugee deaths
As borders become militarised zones, and internal policing of refugees and migrants intensifies, the IRR continues to monitor asylum- and migration- related deaths. Across Europe the humanitarian crisis continues as refugees continue to flee war-torn countries such as Syria. Front-line volunteers, who have witnessed the suffering first-hand over the summer and autumn, have now sent an