A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS AND POLICE RESPONSE 18 June: In response to BLM protests, the head of the Belgian Federal police acknowledges that there have been ‘occasional slip-ups’ but denies that the force is institutionally racist. (Brussels Times,
The Institute of Race Relations – a radical voice against racism for over forty years – draws attention to its varied resources that give context and specificities to the declaration of Black Lives Matter that, ‘It Happens Here Too.’ Resources on policing and deaths in custody In UK and the US The IRR was the
The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked many revelations and discussions of institutional racism in various fields, not only criminal justice but also education, sport, media and culture; we cover a selection of these below. Our regular calendar of racism and resistance can be viewed here. PROTESTS AND POLICE RESPONSE See also anti-fascism and far
Join us and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels for a free webinar launching Hilary Moore’s forthcoming publication on climate change and the racist Right. 12 May, 18:00 BST via Zoom. Register Now> The Institute for Race Relations is co-sponsoring this event with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels, Political Research Associates, Movement Generation, and Ende Gelände. What do climate justice activists and organisers need to know
John Grayson of South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group continues his exposés of conditions in Scotland, Ireland and other countries of Europe for asylum seekers in supposedly safe accommodation. Scotland: the Mears group and its £500m asylum housing contract In Scotland, as in the rest of the UK, the Home Office provision of asylum housing
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. We have incorporated the Covid-19 roundup of racism, health, policing and civil liberties into the calendar of racism and resistance, which we believe makes developments during this period clearer and easier to understand. HEALTH AND POLICY 10 April: As
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe News stories related to coronavirus have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION ASYLUM AND MIGRATION RIGHTS 25 March: In response to a Law Commission report published in January, which recommended the simplification of the ‘overly complex and
A review of differential policies towards different populations draws attention to the ways in which civil society is mobilising to demand protection and an end to the stigmatisation of those with no escape from infection. The growing coronavirus crisis has exposed many faultlines in the UK and in Europe, and in particular, governments’ treatment of
Below we publish a round up of race and civil liberties issues related to coronavirus in the UK and Europe. See our regular calendar of racism and resistance here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION 21 March: A group of migrant justice organisations including the Public Interest Law Centre, Project 17 and Migrants’ Rights Network write an open
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe News stories related to coronavirus have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 10 March: The Guardian reports on a former British army sergeant whose two sons are England rugby internationals, who
