An overview of racist attacks and convictions in Northern Ireland: January – March 2014. On the eve of the new year, the British mainstream media was awash with headlines anticipating the end of the seven-year long transitional restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian migrant workers on 1 January 2014. Press reporters and photographers lined airport baggage
Geography: Northern Ireland
Statement of solidarity from Relatives for Justice
Below, we reproduce a statement from Relatives for Justice, a support group for those bereaved and injured in the conflict in the North of Ireland, in solidarity with Mark Duggan’s family and their fight for justice after the recent inquest verdict. As the verdict from the inquest into the killing of Mark Duggan began to
An assessment of racial violence in Northern Ireland
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last six months in Northern Ireland. According to the most recent statistics produced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), there are two racist incidents reported, and more than one incident recorded as a racist hate crime in the north of Ireland every day. In
Anti-extremism or anti-fascism?
Anti-extremism frameworks, popular in policy and academic circles, are masking the multi-dimensional and pan-European nature of contemporary fascism and the role of the state. Not since the early 1990s, and the pogroms at Hoyerswerda and Rostock have Europe’s far-right movements posed such a tangible threat to the safety of racial and religious minorities. In truth,
Miscarriages of justice in Ireland
The first annual human rights conference of Justice Watch Ireland. Saturday 22 June 2013, 11-2pm Holiday Inn Hotel, 22 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HS Speakers include: Paddy Hill – Birmingham Six Gareth Peirce – Human rights solicitor Moazzam Begg – Guantanamo Bay detainee Phil Scraton – Hillsborough Independent Panel John Finucane – Human rights lawyer
G8: week of action
A week of action and events across the UK. Saturday 8 June – Saturday 15 June 2013 Locations across London Related links StopG8 Network StopG8 Network on Facebook StopG8 Network on Twitter Calendar of events
‘How much further?’ film screening
A screening of ‘How much further?’ a film about asylum seekers in Europe, to mark International Human Rights Day 2012. Monday 10 December 2012, 7.30pm Falls Community Council, 275-277 Falls Road, Belfast BT12 6FD RELATED LINKS West Against Racism Network
Why Ireland needs anti-racism
The Dublin-based Anti-Racism Network (ARN)[1] co-founded by Luke Bukha Kasuanga is taking on new challenges. The ARN was launched in August 2010, but recently, in the light of yet another asylum death (in direct provision) and an increase in brutal deportations, it has expanded its remit, launching a sister organisation Anti Deportation Ireland. A new
Community of solidarity
The Black, Irish, Muslim, Gypsy and Traveller experience of policing was discussed at a two-day symposium. Earlier this month, campaigning lawyers, scholar activists and community campaigners, from some of the most marginalised communities in England and the North of Ireland, came together at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham to analyse the ‘joined-up state’
Plastic bullets: fuel for racial tensions?
Prompted by fears that during last summer’s riots, British police forces were preparing to use plastic bullets, activists from Tottenham joined members of parliament and a delegation from the North of Ireland at a recent Westminster press conference to denounce their deployment. Last month, the Metropolitan police confirmed that since the August 2011 riots its