IRR News stories

Victory for campaign against daft deportation
A respected academic has won his fight against deportation on the ground that his bank balance fell below £800.
26 January 2012 (592 words)

Two deaths in three weeks in Spain's notorious detention centres
Allegations of institutional neglect surround the deaths of two migrants within weeks of a report calling for the centres' closure.
18 January 2012 (557 words)

96 murders since Stephen Lawrence's
The convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris will be bitter-sweet vindication for the family of Stephen Lawrence who have fought an 18-year campaign for justice.
5 January 2012 (963 words)

Cardiff cabbies to strike over violence
A mass strike is being threatened by Cardiff taxi drivers next week, in protest against the routine racism, abuse and violence that cabbies face and indifference by the police and local council.
15 December 2011 (782 words)

A tale of two cities
Recent outrages in Liège and Florence have received very different media interest.
15 December 2011 (557 words)

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Forthcoming events

Walthamstow Holocaust memorial day
An afternoon of reflection and discussion, remembering the victims of Nazi Germany, as well as those of genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.
29 January 2012 (106 words)

NACCOM conference
The annual conference of NACCOM which works with destitute asylum seekers.
4 February 2012 (74 words)

From reaction to revolution
A meeting to audit human rights violations and victories over the last ten years.
5 February 2012 (81 words)

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News from other sources

independent
Clegg failing to keep promise on detained children
The Refugee Council has criticised Nick Clegg for failing to keep his promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres after the Home Office announced that 17 young people were held last month.
27 January 2012

independent
Police told they must reopen Chhokar case
Strathclyde police have been told that, under double jeapordy legislation, they must reopen the investigation into the racist murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar who was killed 13 years ago.
26 January 2012

northern echo
Sultan Alam wins £480,000 for wrongful imprisonment
Sultan Alam, a former police officer, has won at least £480,000 for wrongful imprisonment in 1996 for handling stolen car parts. An Appeal Court found that in 2007 other officers suppressed evidence that would have cleared his name.
26 January 2012

independent
Ian Duncan Smith criticised for immigration statistics
The UK Statistics Authority has complained that Duncan Smith's statistics on immigrants on benefits were rushed out by ministers, and that weaknesses in the data were ignored.
26 January 2012

bbc news
Nine football fans held over racist chanting
Nine Charlton Athletic fans have been arrested on suspicion of singing racist songs on a train after a match.
26 January 2012

hull daily mail
Grave of Christopher Alder to be exhumed
Permission has been granted to exhume the body buried in Christopher Alder's grave, following the discovery of his body at a morgue 11 years after his death in police custody.
26 January 2012

guardian
MPs find dangerous deportation techniques still in use
The UKBA has denied findings from an inquiry by the Home Affairs Select Committee that suggest dangerous deportation techniques have not changed since the death of Jimmy Mubenga, and criticise a racist culture among staff.
26 January 2012

stv
Soldier appeals his conviction for racist murder
Michael Ross, former soldier, is appealing against his conviction for the murder of Shamsuddin Mahmood in 1994. For twelve years the case remained unsolved, but in 2007 it was reopened and Ross had been jailed for a minimum of twenty-five years.
25 January 2012

bbc news
Terrorism control order regime abolished from midnight
The control order system restricting the freedom of terrorism suspects is being abolished from midnight and replaced by new measures called T-Pims.
25 January 2012

carlisle news and star
Racially motivated vandalism against Indian restaurant
An Indian restaurant in Carlisle has been vandalised again in an attack that is the latest of a two year campaign against the business, which the owner believes is racially motivated.
25 January 2012

Race & Class

January 2012 issue

Race & Class is the IRR's quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. In the January 2012 issue, William Robinson asks if the economic crisis will lead to a 21st century fascism.

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European Race Audit

Briefing Paper no. 5

The IRR's European Race Audit (ERA) is now publishing regular free online briefing papers which are available as part of subscriptions to the IRR News Service. It documents the erosion of human rights as a result of asylum and immigration law and civil liberties and as a result of the war on terror. The European Race Audit was launched in 1991 and its huge archive - of over sixty Bulletins on pan-European race and refugee issues - is an invaluable source of information for students, researchers and campaigners.
1 September 2011

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IRR News Comment

Gill Butler 1942-2012
By Jon Burnett
Remembering a unique campaigner for asylum and human rights.
26 January 2012 (326 words)

Asians in Britain
A new learning resource, Asians in Britain[1] produced by the British Library[2], explores the contribution that South Asians have made to Britain's cultural, social and economic life.
26 January 2012 (528 words)

Abu Qatada decision causes alarm - to rights activists
By Frances Webber
As the prime minister derides the European Court of Human Rights as a 'small claims court', it isn't just the anti-human rights brigade who are worried by the its recent judgment.
26 January 2012 (815 words)

The international language of football
By Jenny Bourne
Reading of the allegations of racism in football, it struck me as the more sad, that, over the years, football has been for me the great leveller, the international language which speaks across countries, class and gender.
18 January 2012 (549 words)

Total disaster
By Jon Burnett
Bernard Hogan-Howe's recent talk on 'total policing' at the LSE didn't go down too well.
18 January 2012 (698 words)

Where detention is the norm
A report on the UK Border Agency's management of foreign national offenders bears little reaction to the press' coverage.
18 January 2012 (838 words)

Unsafe return
A new report on returns to the DRC challenges the government's assertion that refused asylum seekers are not at risk.
12 January 2012 (642 words)

Twit or tweet
By Jenny Bourne
The furore about Diane Abbott's tweet reveals a wilful inability to distinguish between state racism and personal prejudice.
11 January 2012 (378 words)

Germany's Stephen Lawrence
By Eddie Bruce-Jones
How can lessons from the Lawrence case be applied to that of Oury Jalloh, who was burned to death in a German police cell seven years ago?
11 January 2012 (1801 words)

'Veto nationalism': populism, nationalism and the Tories
By John Grayson
An examination of the Euroscepticism, nationalism and patriotism being established by politicians and the media in the UK.
11 January 2012 (2386 words)

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From the archive

Sri Lanka: racism and the politics of underdevelopment
By A. Sivanandan
In 1984, the Institute of Race Relations published this penetrating historical analysis of anti-Tamil racism in Sri Lanka. (pdf file, 2.0Mb)
From: Race & Class, Vol. 26, no.1 (1984)