Launch of the second report of the Bail Observation Project. Tuesday 14 May 2013, 7pm Grand Committee Room, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 2TT Speakers: Gill Baden Bridget Walker Toomaj Karimi-Ayoubloo Caroline White Alison Harvey Bill Mackeith RELATED LINKS Campaign to Close Campsfield
Theme: Education
Children and justice
Lectures on children, armed and psychological conflicts. Tuesday 7 May 2013, 7pm Kaplan Law School, Palace House, 3 Cathedral Street, London SE1 9DE Speakers: Dr Jenny Cooper – LSE Dr Aidrian Sutton – Gulu Medical School, Uganda and Manchester Medical School, UK RELATED LINKS Baobab Centre for Young Survivors in Exile Kaplan Law School
To Walk in Your Shoes
A unique collaboration of verbatim theatre and digital photography which challenges the myths and untruths perpetuated by the media about what it means to seek asylum. Friday 10 May 2013, 19:00 – 22:00 Severn Arts Leeds, 31a Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD To Walk in Your Shoes explores the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
NCIA inquiry into voluntary services
The launch of the National Coalition for Independent Action’s inquiry into voluntary services, asking whether they can survive and in what form. Friday 10 May 2013, 11-3pm Institute for Family Therapy, 24-32 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HX The NCIA is especially interested in attracting people who are running services and are facing dilemmas about contracting
Racial violence since the death of Stephen Lawrence
As the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence approaches, the IRR examines racial violence since his death in 1993. In the twenty years since the death of Stephen Lawrence, we can report that 106 people have lost their lives in (known or suspected) racist attacks – five per year on average, that black
A future without immigration detention?
A conference on immigration detention in the UK. Friday 26 April 2013, 5-9pm – Saturday 27 April 2013, 9.30-5pm Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H Speakers include: Dr Parvathi Raman – SOAS Dr Liza Schuster – City University Jerome Phelps – Detention Action Alison Pickup – Doughty Street Chambers Dr Frank Arnold
Medical Justice training session
A training session for health professionals around the needs of asylum seekers in detention centres. Saturday 27 April 2013, 10.30-5pm Athlone Street Community Centre, Athlone Street, London NW5 4LR Related links Medical Justice
Concert in aid of Freedom from Torture
The voicebox choir will be performing in aid of Freedom from Torture. Saturday 20 April 2013, 7.30pm St Barnabus Church, Hart Street, Oxford OX2 6BN Related links Freedom from Torture
Fighting Europe’s racisms
A collection of essays on varieties of European racism contains valuable insights and useful lessons. A minister cuts a cake. The cake is in the shape of a black woman, and the cut exposes her pink genitals, as a performance artist screams. The event, an ill-conceived critique of female genital mutilation, backfires, as the white,
NHS takes over immigration detention health care
There are grounds for hope for improvement in detainees’ health treatment, but vigilance is still needed. The NHS takeover of immigration detainees’ health care was perhaps the only positive news on 1 April, when the coalition’s ‘great benefits reform’ was inaugurated at the same time that most housing, debt, employment, social security and immigration advice