IRR News stories

Remembering Sean Rigg - two years on
On Saturday 21 August 2010, sisters Marcia Rigg-Samuel and Samantha Rigg-David were joined by family, friends and members of the public in marking the second anniversary of the death of their brother Sean Rigg, killed during an altercation with police in Brixton on 21 August 2008.
2 September 2010 (408 words)

Racial violence laid bare
Ongoing research by the Institute of Race Relations exposes the reach of racial violence that continues to spread across the county.
5 August 2010 (3165 words)

Stop and ... spy?
Are the security services in the UK so desperate to recruit spies and informers that they stop random travellers coming to the UK in order to recruit them?
4 August 2010 (582 words)

Court rules against unauthorised police surveillance
Last week, at Inner London Crown Court, three activists were cleared of charges of obstructing the police as they attempted to film and photograph those attending two London NoBorders meetings in south London in June 2008.
29 July 2010 (277 words)

Home Office hits international students - again
New rules, to make it harder for international students to come and study in the UK, will become law unless Parliament intervenes.
29 July 2010 (737 words)

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Forthcoming events

NCADC annual general meeting 2010
The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns AGM, including workshops and discussion groups.
4 September 2010 (65 words)

Demonstration against French Roma evictions
A demonstration in solidarity with Roma people who are being evicted and expelled from France.
4 September 2010 (39 words)

7th memorial of the death of Mikey Powell
Two events in memory of Mikey Powell who died after being restrained by West Midlands police officers from Thornhill Road police station on 7 September 2003.
5 September 2010 (151 words)

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News from other sources

medical news today
Black women are at highest risk of self-harm
Research from the universities of Oxford and Manchester has found that young black women are disproportionately likely to suffer from self-harm and least likely to receive follow up specialist psychiatric care afterwards.
2 September 2010

hemsworth & south elmsall express
Shopkeeper subject to tirade of foul racial abuse
A shopkeeper in Hemsworth was the victim of severe racial abuse in which he was referred to as an 'Asian animal' and his mother was threatened with rape.
2 September 2010

worcester news
Local workers racially harassed in Worcester
A drunk man, Luke Miller, has been convicted of racially abused and intimidating local takeaway workers and a taxi driver, damaging the restaurant and cab in the process.
2 September 2010

guardian
Kurdish government bans deportation flights from UK
The Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq has banned the landing of flights deporting failed asylum seekers to its territory, amidst plans for sixty Iraqis to be deported in the next week.
1 September 2010

northants evening telegraph
Youth arrested for racial assault
A teenager has been arrested for a racist attack on an Eastern European man in Corby on 29 August.
1 September 2010

southport visitor
Takeaway owner knifed in racist attack
The Jordanian owner of a takeaway restaurant in Southport was racially abused and stabbed by two men vandalising his restaurant.
1 September 2010

guardian
Government tightens rules on Travellers' sites
Council requirements for the provision of land for Gypsies have been revoked and a new system put in place that gives councils more powers to evict those on unauthorised encampments and provides incentives for those providing official sites.
31 August 2010

guardian
Investigation uncovers modern-day slavery in Britain
An investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has uncovered appalling working conditions for thousands of migrants that amount to modern-day slavery.
31 August 2010

bbc news
Violence erupts at English Defence League Bradford rally
Missiles were thrown and minor clashes took place between supporters of the EDL, anti-fascists and the police at the demonstration on 28 August.
31 August 2010

plymouth herald
Two convicted for racial assault on asylum seeker
Two men have been convicted for racially abusing and attacking an Eritrean asylum seeker in Plymouth.
31 August 2010

Race & Class

July 2010 issue

Race & Class is the IRR's quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. The July 2010 is a special issue: 'Canada: colonial amnesia and the legacy of empire'.

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European Race Audit

Briefing Paper no. 3

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.
29 April 2010

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IRR News Comment

Poland: Anti-Roma mob attack legitimised
By Joanna Tegnerowicz
In July 2010, an angry crowd launched a terrifying attack on a Roma family in Limanowa, southern Poland. But why were no arrests made? And how come no one has condemned the violence?
2 September 2010 (2571 words)

Who defends whom?
By Jehanzeb Khan
An anti-racist student organiser discusses, in the light of the upcoming English Defence League (EDL) event in Bradford, what anti-fascists can learn about recent state interventions and particularly the policing of anti-fascist demonstrations.
27 August 2010 (1211 words)

Asylum battles: two victories and one setback
By Frances Webber
The rights of asylum seekers were upheld in two recent court judgments - but those facing deportation on national security grounds were denied justice in a third.
12 August 2010 (1548 words)

Nottingham asylum seeker jumps to his death
By Harmit Athwal
Campaigners are desperately trying to raise the necessary funds to send the body of 27-year-old Osman Rasul Mohammed, an Iraqi Kurdish asylum seeker who jumped from the seventh floor of a Nottingham tower block, back home.
5 August 2010 (510 words)

New Travellers, old story
A unique set of free resources about the culture and history of Britain's New Travellers has been created by The Children's Society.
15 July 2010 (390 words)

Duplicity behind immigration cap
By Frances Webber
Electoral politics, rather than economic necessity, are behind the cap on non-EU economic immigration.
8 July 2010 (1679 words)

Fighting ghosts: an interview with Husein Al-Samamara
Below we publish an interview with Husein Al-Samamara, currently subjected to draconian immigration bail conditions in the UK as he fights against his deportation to Jordan, where he was imprisoned and tortured.
1 July 2010 (3812 words)

Child detention review: the challenge for NGOs
By Frances Webber
How should the voluntary sector respond to the government's review of children's detention?
24 June 2010 (1211 words)

Freedom - but not for all
By Frances Webber
The government's much vaunted freedom agenda entrenches a two-tier system of rights, with migrants and other unpopular minorities largely excluded.
17 June 2010 (637 words)

Darfuri asylum seeker failed by the system
By Kirsten Heaven
Kirsten Heaven, barrister at Garden Court Chambers, writes about the deaths of foreign nationals in custody and the critical verdict in the recent inquest into the self-inflicted death of a young Darfuri in HMP Chelmsford.
10 June 2010 (1360 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)