A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 12 November: Local council leaders criticise the government for failing to place young refugee children with them despite a national transfer scheme being in place. (Guardian, 12 November 2016) 14 November: Three 16-year-old Afghan asylum
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 25 October: The Court of Appeal rules against the Home Office in a test case brought by a foreign student facing deportation on the basis of hearsay evidence on English language testing. (Migrants’ Rights Network,
Below we interview members of a new campaign, Schools ABC, set up to resist the encroachment of border controls in schools. What is the Schools ABC campaign? What were the concerns that led you to set it up? The Against Borders for Children campaign started with two aims – to stop the Department for Education
Legal translator Aisha Maniar looks at the impact of privatised court interpreting services in England and Wales over the past five years and the new justice sector contract which came into force on 31 October. ‘It is easy to take for granted the right to a fair trial. It does happen, people of good character coming before
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 20 September: The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee publishes: EU Asylum Reform, download the report here. 12 October: The FN-backed mayor of the southern French town of Béziers launches a referendum on whether the town
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 24 August: Self-defence classes for Muslims and others from BAME communities in Swansea are launched, following concerns about racist violence in the locality. (BBC News, 24 August 2016) 1 September: A man who racially abuses
As the police investigate the murder of a Polish factory worker in Harlow, the Institute of Race Relations publishes today its evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Hate Crime and its Violent Consequences. ‘There has’, according to the IRR, ‘been a return to old school racism, the racism of the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence & harassment 22 August: Freedom of Information requests reveal that British Transport Police recorded 119 ‘race hate offences’ in the two weeks following the EU referendum, an increase in incidents of 78 per cent over the same
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence & harassment 30 July: A black man is beaten by up to twelve men in a racially motivated attack in Newquay. (Cornish Guardian, 8 August 2016) 5 August: Following the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, French mosques
