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
Geography: South-West England
Calendar of racism & resistance (27 August – 4 September 2014)
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
Deaths in immigration detention: 1989-2017
Below we list all deaths that have taken place in immigration removal and short-term holding centres since 1989; we also list those who have died shortly after release from immigration detention. There have been thirty-four deaths in immigration removal centres since 1989; three women and the rest men. Harmondsworth detention centre accounts for nine deaths; five
Plymouth workshops for asylum seekers and refugees
A series of creative writing workshops for asylum seekers and refugees in transition. Wednesday 19 March 2014, 1-3pm Wednesday 26 March 2014, 1-3pm Plymouth City Library, North Hill, Plymouth PL4 8JY Organised by the Red Cross and delivered by StoryJug. Related links Storyjug website
Public meeting: indefinite detention in Dorset
A public meeting about a new immigration removal centre set to open on the site of HMP The Verne. Thursday 27 February 2014, 6.45pm St. John’s Church, Greenhill, Weymouth DT4 7SS Speakers include: Ali McGinley – Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees Andrew Wilson – Morton Hall Visitors Group Tamsin Alger – Detention Action A former detainee will
CPS Crisis
Demonstration against Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inaction. This year there have been two damning unlawful killing verdicts into deaths in custody and still the CPS is procrastinating about whether to charge those involved. Friday 6 December 2013, 11-1pm Crown Prosecution Service, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS Related links Download a flyer (pdf
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,
Roma Voices
An important meeting hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma will be held on 28 October – Czech National Day. The meeting will show a short film documenting the impact of nationalism on Romani communities in ther Czech Republic as the neo-Nazis march every week into the neighbourhoods where Roma live,
From pillar to post: pan-European racism and the Roma
This week, we publish a briefing paper which documents a growing tide of hostility against Europe’s Romani communities. Europe’s Roma face a double victimisation both as Roma and as migrants and are fast becoming the number one scapegoat for the economic crisis, argues IRR’s Director Liz Fekete in this hard-hitting review of anti-Roma hate campaigns
Dignity for asylum seekers march in Bristol
A march through Bristol to demand dignity for asylum seekers and an end to destitution. Saturday 29 June 2013, 11am Malcolm X Community Centre, St Paul’s, Bristol BS2 8YH Related links Bristol Refugee Rights Bristol Hospitality Network Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign on Facebook Bristol City of Sanctuary