Urgent action is needed to prevent a looming crisis in provision for Europe’s minority ethnic elderly, according to the first report of a major Europe-wide research project, covering ten countries, into the problems of ageing and ethnicity. Launched at the European Parliament, Brussels, on 8 May, the report Minority Elderly Care in Europe shows how,
Geography: Other
We the (only) People
Racial superiority is back on the agenda – in the guise, this time, not of a super-race but of a super-nation, a super-people, a chosen people, on a mission to liberate the world. The Iraqi peoples have to be saved from themselves – by force, necessarily, because they know no better. And who better to
From refugee protection to managed migration: the EU’s border control programme
Since the Seville Summit of June 2002, European heads of state are increasingly questioning the continuing relevance of the 1951 Geneva Convention. In this – the first in a series of reports examining various aspects of the EU’s new focus on ‘managed migration’ – we examine the EU Council’s new Border Control Programme in relation
Summary – the EU’s new Border Control Programme
Under plans to be presented tomorrow by the home secretary, David Blunkett, to the European Union summit in Brussels, asylum seekers will be held in ‘temporary processing centres’ outside the EU – possibly in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey or North Africa. A report by the Institute of Race Relations, published today, shows how this proposal is
Globalism’s imperial war
The war on Iraq is the opening salvo in a war to redesign the world to the needs of corporate America. The plans for it were already in place long before 9/11 – in the September 2000 report of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), for instance, which mapped out a strategy for
Analysis: Deaths during forced deportation
Case details of nine deaths during forced deportations in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, France, Austria and the United Kingdom. The right to life, and the right to dignity – not to be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment, are recognised as the most fundamental of all human rights. As such, they are at the heart
EU to make all refugees temporary?
The Council of the European Union is discussing the definition of ‘refugee/subsidiary protection’ and could put the status of all future refugees under permanent review. Secret discussions among ministers and civil servants in the Council of the European Union (the 15 EU governments) about the Directive proposed by the European Commission on the definition of
The IOM and the culture of expulsion
The aftermath of September 11 has been felt in Europe not just in terms of anti-terror legislation, but also in an acceleration of plans to fast-track the expulsion of migrants. And at the centre of any expulsion plans is found the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), a little-known but hugely important international organisation of member
Peoples’ security versus national security
According to representatives of Asian NGOs, the War Against Terrorism is legitimising authoritarian regimes and seriously undermining the democratisation effort. Most disturbingly, the US is using the events of September 11 to remilitarise the region and to secure its own economic and strategic interests. At a recent conference, hosted by the Asian Human Rights Commission,
Terrorism: theirs and ours
We reproduce this address given at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on 12 October 1998 because of its relevance to the current world situation. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Jewish underground in Palestine was described as ‘terrorist’. Then new things happened. By 1942, the Holocaust was occurring, and a certain liberal sympathy with the