A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 20 April: The Home Office announces that a new process for resettling unaccompanied asylum seeking children will commence in July. (Guardian, 21 April 2016) 21 April: The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman publishes: Independent investigation into
Demonstration for the right of Travellers, Gypsies and Roma Saturday 21 May 2016, assemble at 1pm Parliament Square, London Related links Facebook event listing
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: A 7-year-old Afghan boy is rescued from the back of a lorry on the M1 with fourteen other migrants after sending an SOS text message saying that he was having difficulty breathing. (BBC
Significantly, but without much fanfare, an expanded definition of anti-Semitism entered the UK’s policy arena this April. An article by Eric Pickles, former secretary of state for communities and local government, chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel and, since September 2015, UK special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, entitled ‘A definition of antisemitism’ introduced the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 March: Caritas Europa publishes: Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection. Download the report here. 15 March: Refugee Rights publishes a report: The Long Wait: Filling the data gaps
The lack of trained interpreters inside immigration detention exacerbates fear, mistrust and depression and has contributed to a number of deaths. The Stephen Shaw Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons in Britain’s immigration detention estate, published in January 2016, is the latest in a long line of reports that make recommendations to
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Home Secretary Theresa May wins the right to deport refused asylum seekers to Afghanistan after the Court of Appeal overturns an injunction imposed following concerns that the country was too dangerous. (Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites individuals and specialist libraries and archives to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday
A day of education, information and discussion leading to action through encouragement of grassroots campaigns. Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30-5.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Related links See event on Facebook here
A new radical, illustrated anthology highlights the links between music, politics and protest during the miners’ strike. Mention the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and most people will remember Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. What they may not say is ‘community’. And yet the most important aspect in terms of British history was the strength of community
