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IRR News stories

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)

Not integration but civil rights
The Institute of Race Relations publishes the alternative European integration report.
19 July 2010 (270 words)

End of Prevent?
The government's controversial preventing violent extremism programme is apparently to be dismantled.
15 July 2010 (282 words)

Basil Davidson 1914-2010
To mark the sad death of Basil Davidson, a long-time member of the IRR and member of Race & Class Editorial Committee, we reproduce below the editorial in the 1994 special issue of the journal.
12 July 2010 (621 words)

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Forthcoming events

An introduction to using story-based strategy with smartMeme
A meeting on how to win 'the battle of the story' in campaigning, movement organising and changing the world.
31 July 2010 (160 words)

Fighting Fascism in London
Discussion on the anti-fascist struggles Londoners have engaged in over the years.
11 August 2010 (84 words)

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Events listing is provided for information only. Inclusion in this listing should not be taken to imply that the Institute of Race Relations supports an event or is involved in organising it.

News from other sources

guardian
Ruling on asylum seekers right to work undermined by Home Office
The Supreme Court ruled this week that asylum seekers making a second claim for refugee status should be allowed to work. However, the Home Office is seeking to restrict asylum seekers to jobs in sectors where there is a shortage of skilled workers.
29 July 2010

south wales echo
UKBA in Cardiff cleared of racism
The UK Border Agency in Cardiff has been cleared of allegations, made by a former employee, of the mistreatment of asylum seekers, although the credibility of the internal investigation has been questioned.
29 July 2010

bbc news
Former terror suspects able to sue over control orders
The government has lost an appeal against an earlier High Court decision to allow two former terror suspects who had been under control orders for three years, known as AE and AF, to claim damages for loss of liberty and violations of human rights.
28 July 2010

south london press
Camberwell club owners take council to court
The owners of a nightclub forced to close when Southwark Council granted planning permission for a large residential development, are taking the council to court to claim compensation. There were allegations of racism in the planning process.
28 July 2010

guardian
EDL members arrested for suspected bomb plot
Seven members of the English Defence League were arrested last week in Dorset for conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque, but were later released without charge.
28 July 2010

independent
Fast-track removals and dawn raids condemned
The high court has ruled that the 'exceptions policy' of deporting people with little or no notice is unlawful, while a new report by the Independent Chief Inspector of the UKBA has condemned early morning raids on asylum seeking families.
27 July 2010

guardian
1,000 people face eviction from Dale Farm
Dale Farm, the largest Romany and Irish Gypsy Traveller site in the UK, is due to be part demolished after five years of court battles with the local council, with around ninety families facing eviction.
27 July 2010

guardian
Fast-track deportations ruled unlawful
The fast-track process for deporting vulnerable failed asylum seekers with little or no notice, a practice that became part of the Home Office's 'exceptions policy' in March 2007, has been ruled unlawful by the high court.
26 July 2010

voice
Lambeth Council job cuts criticised
The trade union Unison has accused Lambeth Council of racial discrimination, claiming that planned staff redundancies in the Children Services Department will unfairly target black workers.
26 July 2010

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Race & Class

July 2010 issue

Race and Class journalRace & 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

European Race BulletinThe 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

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)

New government seeks to bully judges
By Frances Webber
Those expecting a new spirit of fairness and social liberalism to engulf the UK Border Agency (UKBA) following the insertion of the LibDems into government are perhaps beginning to realise the folly of their hopes in the light of recent news.
10 June 2010 (1790 words)

Deportation targets trump children's rights
By Liz Fekete
When the newly-elected government announced it would end the detention of children, IRR News cautioned against early optimism. This week's developments explain why.
9 June 2010 (759 words)

Playing the Gypsy 'race card'
By John Grayson
The Con-Dem coalition has started an offensive against the most marginal and disadvantaged of all Britain's minorities, Gypsies and Travellers.
4 June 2010 (2957 words)

Poland: Reflections on the death of a street vendor
By Joanna Tegnerowicz
A Nigerian street vendor was shot dead following a police identity check in an open-air market in Warsaw. But is anyone asking the right questions?
3 June 2010 (2691 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)

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