An overview of racial violence and harassment in the first six months of 2012. The Institute of Race Relations (IRR), which documents racist attacks, is now collating regular short briefings on emerging trends in racial violence throughout the UK. And the first six months of 2012 reveals a reality of routine abuse and harassment –
Fair’s Fair, a new free educational resource by Playfair 2012, aims to raise awareness of the human rights abuses of workers who make sporting goods for the Olympics and other major sporting events. The Olympics aim to build a better world through sport.[1] However, what is often forgotten is how workers making sportswear and related
An analysis of how, from April to July, both Tory and Labour politicians have with media help been carrying the torch for populist, nationalist ideas and repressive racist immigration policies. On BBC Newsnight on 22 June, Paul Mason, the programme’s economics editor, fresh from the barricades of Spain and Greece, and Gillian Tett, Washington editor
The family of Jimmy Mubenga has been left devastated by the recent decision not to prosecute the three G4S officers involved in his death. Jimmy, a father of five, died after being restrained on a plane at Heathrow airport in October 2010. His family have been waiting since that time for the police to complete
Below we reproduce Frances Webber’s letter to the Guardian about the CPS’ failure to prosecute the G4S officers involved in Jimmy Mubenga’s death. The Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute G4S or its guards for the death of Jimmy Mubenga (No prosecution of G4S guards for deportee’s death on plane, 18 July) seems perverse,
A campaign has been launched to provide people with vital information if they are subject to or witness a raid by the UK Border Agency (UKBA). IRR News spoke to Indira Kartallozi and Phil Miller, activists in the fast-growing campaign to ensure that undocumented migrants know their rights. IRR: How did the campaign start and
On 5 July, Fully Focused Productions’ one-hour documentary Riot from Wrong premiered as part of the East End Film Festival at the Rio Cinema, Dalston, just a few miles down the road from Tottenham police station, where the riots began nearly one year ago. At least four hundred, mainly young, people from the Fully Focused
A bill currently going through parliament threatens to close off justice from those at the sharp end of policing by extending secret evidence to civil proceedings. On the face of it, the provisions of the Justice and Security Bill appear eminently reasonable. In civil proceedings (such as claims for damages), judges must withhold evidence from
A joint action against proposed changes to the immigration rules. Monday 9 July 2012, 4.30pm Home Office, Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF Related Links Action for ESOL JCWI Migrants Rights Network
The Black, Irish, Muslim, Gypsy and Traveller experience of policing was discussed at a two-day symposium. Earlier this month, campaigning lawyers, scholar activists and community campaigners, from some of the most marginalised communities in England and the North of Ireland, came together at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham to analyse the ‘joined-up state’
