A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6
An evening of spoken word poetry and music to raise money and awareness in aid of the situation of migrants in Calais. SubrosA, 27 Lloyd Street South, Manchester M14 7HS Saturday 18 October 2014, 6pm Musicians: Beau Nafyde Kye Jones Music Navajo Hannah Slater and Keith Lythgoe Joe Yorke Related links No Borders Manchester See more
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting the key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees September: The ECtHR rules that conditions for migrants detained in a number of Greek police stations and immigration detention centres are so bad that they amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in two
A new report by Human Rights First on fascism in Hungary and Greece raises important questions. But its orientation towards US national interests smacks of Cold War thinking. When we think of the leaders of Europe’s far- and extreme-Right parties today, it is easy to ridicule them as fossils, nostalgic for days of Empire and
A public event, including workshops to mark the thirteenth National Miscarriage of Justice Day. Saturday 11 October 2014, 10-5pm John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5UZ Speakers include: Ross Patel – Afentis Forensics CCRC representative Professor Joe Sim – Liverpool John Moores University INQUEST representative RELATED LINKS United Against Injustice
A calendar of stories from the last week. Asylum seekers & refugees 27 August 2014: Medical Justice has published a report: Biased and Unjust: The Immigration Detention Complaints Process, you can download it here (pdf file, 6.4mb). 29 August: 44-year-old Wadih Chourey, who has Down’s syndrome, faces deportation to Lebanon after the Home Office refused
A seminar to examine the ‘radical shifts’ in the voluntary youth sector’s changing relationship with the state and the increasing intrusion of private businesses into its activities. Thursday 18 September 2014, 11-4pm Brunswick Parish Church Centre, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9TQ Outline programme includes: Ian McGimpsey (University of Birmingham) – effects of neo-liberal policies on
London anti-fascists support the international call-out from Greece to commemorate one year since the murder of Pavlos Fyssas (aka Killah P) at the hands of fascists. Thursday 18 September 2014, 7pm Cable Street Mural, 236 Cable Street, London E1 0BL Related links Facebook event listing
A recently-published report by Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children puts the media’s power to influence state action under the spotlight. Last year, while the world’s media was shocked by an apparent case of child abduction by a Roma family in Greece, Ireland’s police took two blonde-haired children from their dark-haired Roma parents, following tip-offs from the
RAPAR’s Annual general meeting. Friday 18 July 2014, 6pm Friend’s Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS RELATED LINKS Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Research (RAPAR)
