A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-Right politics 16 March: Polish police seize live ammunition and weapons when they arrest thirteen neo-Nazis during coordinated raids across Poland. Connected to Blood & Honour and Combat 18, the neo-Nazis are charged with a variety of offences, such
Deaths of Europe’s ‘unwanted and unnoticed’ migrants exposed
The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals. The deaths over the last five years, in the detention and reception centres, the streets and the squats of Europe, are a product of the rightlessness
Second inquest returns critical verdict on death of Habib Ullah
On 2 March, a second inquest recorded a critical misadventure and narrative verdict into the death of Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah on 3 July 2008, after being stopped and forcefully searched by police in High Wycombe. The verdict marks seven years of campaigning by his family, who have consistently marked the anniversary of his death, every
When anonymous hearsay can get you deported
Operation Nexus allows for deportation on the basis of fundamentally unreliable and untestable material. Foreign nationals convicted of serious crime can reasonably expect to be deported. But what of those acquitted of crime, or never charged? Or victims of crime? Human rights lawyers are becoming increasingly concerned about the extensive use of police intelligence in
Dying for Justice
On Monday 23 March 2015, the Institute of Race Relations published Dying for Justice which gives the background on 509 people (an average of twenty-two per year) from BAME, refugee and migrant communities who have died between 1991-2014 in suspicious circumstances in which the police, prison authorities or immigration detention officers have been implicated. It concludes
IRR News 27 February – 12 March 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, the IRR was among a number of signatories of a letter to the Times in support of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, which had come under regulatory pressure and media attack in recent days. As this News Service has stressed in recent weeks (see in particular Jenny Bourne’s review
Calendar of racism and resistance (27 February – 12 March 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Serco suspends two staff members from Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre after the showing of a Channel 4 film, made undercover, on the treatment of detainees which revealed what the shadow home secretary called
Dismantling welfare myths
‘Good times bad times’ dismantles popular myths about the welfare state, and looks at the implications of them. The more the Conservatives’ ‘moral mission’ to radically transform the welfare state is entrenched, the more it relies on the humiliation of the poor, the suppression of dissent and denial of lived reality. This can be seen
German justice: from Jeremiah Duggan to Halit Yozgat
In the latest twist at the NSU trial, the state premier of Hesse has been asked to take the witness stand. Why is Volker Bouffier’s evidence important for the family of Halit Yozgat, the NSU’s ninth victim, as well as to the family of Jeremiah Duggan? The trial of Beate Zschäpe and four co-defendants in
Documenting casualisation
The TUC is seeking to interview black workers affected by the casualisation of the job market. Austerity measures affect the black community disproportionately and, just this week, figures were released which show that the number of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds, aged 16-24, that have been unemployed longer than a year has risen by