As refugees and migrants die in Greece’s ‘hotspots’, military camps and in transit, the EU, the UNHCR and Greek institutions must be held to account. When the European Commission announced, in September 2015, a plan to create hotspots to fingerprint, screen and register refugees arriving in Greece and Italy, many of the larger humanitarian agencies
The Last Rights project, set up in 2016, aims to ‘create a new framework of respect for the rights of missing and dead refugees and migrants and bereaved family members’. The project’s co-convenors, Catriona Jarvis and Syd Bolton, have since the summer of 2015 been frequent visitors to Lesbos, doing volunteer work. They spent winter
An evening with with Winston Trew – activist and author of ‘Black for a cause … not just because … the case of the “Oval 4” and the story of Black Power in 1970s Britain’. Monday 13 February 2017, 6.30pm 3 Jardine House, Harrovian Business Village, Bessborough Road, Harrow London HA1 3EX Related links Book
One Day Without Us – a national day of action to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK, to coincide with UN World Day of Social Justice. Monday 20 February – Tuesday 21 February 2017 Locations across the UK Please check the One Day Without Us website for details for actions across the UK Related
A discussion with artists and community activists examining the role of art and culture at key moments in the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Thursday 16 February 2017, 6.30-8.30pm Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB Speakers include: Chair: Jagdish Patel – Nottingham based artist and member of The Monitoring Group Poulomi Desai Suresh
A discussion on political policing and how we should respond to the Pitchford Inquiry examining police spying. Wednesday 15 February 2017, 7-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, 2nd Floor, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Speakers include: Eveline Lubbers – Undercover Research Group Solomon Hughes – journalist who uncovered secret files on Grunwick Harriet Wistrich – lawyer
On 11 January an unnamed 27-year-old Polish man was found dead in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire, the first death this year and the 29th death in immigration detention since 1989. It was reported by the Unity Centre that the man was found hanged in his room at the centre. He had apparently
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 11 January: An unnamed 27-year-old Polish man dies in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire. (Unity Centre Glasgow, 13 January 2017, Guardian, 13 January 2017) 12 January: Somali asylum seekers and riot police clash in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 22 November: Freedom from Torture publishes a report: Proving Torture, Demanding the impossible: Home Office mistreatment of expert medical evidence. Download the report here (pdf file, 1.6mb) 21 December: Human Rights Watch condemns the Home
The January 2017 issue of Race & Class leads with a very timely article on Europe by IRR director Liz Fekete. She looks, in the light of the Brexit vote, at the apparent rupture between Eurosceptic nationalists and transnational neoliberal elites, examining also the decline in support for Social Democratic and Conservative mainstream political parties.
