August 2004
Some stories
Help a grieving Iraqi family to bring their son home
The impoverished parents of an Iraqi man, who died trying to enter Britain in 2001, have appealed to the British public to help raise £3,100 - the cost of sending the body from a Kent mortuary, where it has been left for the last three years, to Iraq for burial.
26 August 2004 (706 words)
Funding available for anti-racism week
Kick It Out, the national campaign against racism in football, is offering grants for community organisations which want to participate in October's Anti-Racism Week of Action.
19 August 2004 (156 words)
Hundreds demonstrate outside Home Office against 'war on terror'
The campaign against the criminalisation of Muslim communities under anti-terror laws stepped up a gear this week as over 300 people protested outside the Home Office.
18 August 2004 (555 words)
A matter of fear or death
David Blunkett has blamed campaigners for encouraging an Iraqi asylum seeker to sew up his lips.
18 August 2004 (537 words)
Father speaks out against son's arrest
At a public meeting held by the 'Stop Police Terror' group this week in Tooting, south London, Ashfaq Ahmad called on the government not to extradite his son, Babar, to the US, where he faces terrorism charges.
10 August 2004 (947 words)
'Deadly detention' protests
Over the weekend, 31 July/ 1August, campaigners held demonstrations against 'deadly detention' outside detention centres and prisons across UK. These were organised after two asylum seekers were found hanged, one in Harmondsworth and another in Dungavel.
5 August 2004 (184 words)
Plans to close CRE library
Librarians and race relations workers in London are shocked at proposals to close the library at the Commission for Racial Equality to members of the public.
4 August 2004 (349 words)