The life and work of a dynamic anti racism campaigner was recently celebrated in Dublin. Anti racism and refugee rights campaigners, past and present, gathered on 6 September in Dublin to celebrate the life and work of Josephine Olusola Olapeju Olajumoke Amuwo, whose untimely death occurred in London this August. Although she had been based
A recent publication on policing from rightwing think-tank Civitas extends its attack on anti-racism into a ‘white victimhood’ thesis. Civitas’ latest pamphlet, Mind-Forg’d Manacles by ex-Labour Councillor Jon Gower Davies, is an attempt to bury once and for all Macpherson’s finding of institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police Service. It argues that this finding has
I found myself in a tearful state on my first visit to ‘The Robinson Institute’ exhibition, curated by artist Patrick Keiller in the main hall at Tate Britain – moved to tears, but wearing a big grinning smile on my face. I’ve been back several times now and I’ve had that ‘tears of joy’ moment
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) does not seem to be aware of its own policy on forced marriage. In June the prime minister announced a new initiative to tackle the menace of forced marriage setting out the government’s intention to create specific criminal offences for perpetrators and to devote half a million pounds to an
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, the IRR’s Jon Burnett assesses the recent conviction of soldier for a racially motivated attack that left his young victim, Mo Bourner, with brain damage. We also carry a review of a new report that investigates police indifference to the growth of the far Right in Germany. And staying
A family have thanked Sussex police for tracking down a soldier who nearly killed their teenage son in a vicious unprovoked racist attack. One drunken punch was all it took to put 15-year-old Mohammed ‘Mo’ Bourner in a coma: a punch of such sheer ferocity that his head smashed first into a car bonnet and
A new report from Germany highlights the institutional racism that lies behind official responses to the far Right. In the wake of the scandal surrounding the police’s failure to prevent the eleven murders carried out by the National Socialist Underground (NSU), and the subsequent promise by the federal government to strengthen the pro-democracy fight against
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, in news from across the UK, nearly 3,000 students at the London Metropolitan University are facing an uncertain future after the UK Border Agency revoked the university’s licence to take on non-EU students. It has also been announced that the public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney who was
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, in news from across the UK, the two men convicted of the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 have been denied permission to appeal by a single judge at the court of appeal. However they will be allowed to renew their applications before a panel of judges. And lawyers
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week in news from across the UK, in a highly unusual move, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has commissioned an external review of its investigation into the death of Sean Rigg after its findings were at odds with the recent verdict of a jury at the inquest into his death.
