Last week, campaigners from numerous organisations brought their grievances about the human rights abuses of G4S directly to their annual general meeting. A lively protest took place outside Salter’s Hall in the city. As shareholders arrived, they were met with a mock barricade and prison cell and over seventy activists shouting anti-G4S slogans. Inside the
A series of hunger strikes, following allegations of abuse, force and the use of forged documents, are showing up the fault lines in the Dutch detention system. For the first time in more than a decade, hundreds of people in Dutch immigration detention centres have gone on hunger strikes in protest at their hopeless situation.
Launch of new and updated self-help guide for asylum seekers and their supporters. Thursday 27 June 2013, 6pm Crossroads Women’s Centre, 25 Wolsey Mews, London NW5 2DX
IRR News reports on a recent deportation, which resulted in a Kurdish man allegedly having his nose broken by a guard from the private company Tascor (which is contracted to carry out deportations). Omer Kader was being deported to Northern Iraq on a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight on Friday 7 June 2013. He has reported
An art exhibition celebrating the courage of refugees and asylum seekers and the work of legal caseworkers. Thursday 6 June 2013 – Saturday 29 June 2013, 5-9pm weekdays, 10-4pm Saturdays, closed Sundays Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester M15 5ZA Related links Virtual Migrants Asylum Support Housing Advice Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit Z-arts
A tour of a play about a young refugee, alone in London, who is threatened with deportation to Afghanistan. Newcastle Tuesday 25 June 2013, 8pm Star & Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 2NP Canterbury Wednesday 26 June 2013, 7pm Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB Leicester Friday 28 June
Attacks in Germany linked to the NSU trial demonstrate that the far Right does not need a stimulus for violence. Following the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich and attacks on several mosques, the government-funded Tell MAMA project warned of the dangers of cumulative extremism, tit-for-tat violence between Islamists and counter-jihadists and a
A week of action and events across the UK. Saturday 8 June – Saturday 15 June 2013 Locations across London Related links StopG8 Network StopG8 Network on Facebook StopG8 Network on Twitter Calendar of events
In the blizzard of coalition measures wreaking destruction on living standards, the justice ministry’s proposals on legal aid will once again bear down hardest on poor BME, Muslim and migrant communities. From the introduction of a residence test for civil legal aid, to the withdrawal of public funding for challenges to mistreatment in prison and
A protest organised by Stop G4S outside the annual general meeting of G4S. Thursday 6 June 2013, 1pm Salters’ Hall, 4 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5DE Related links Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook Facebook event listing Download a flyer here
