IRR News is an independent news service on race and refugee issues, produced by the Institute of Race Relations, London. en-gb http://www.irr.org.uk Copyright, Institute of Race Relations news@irr.org.uk Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:14:36 GMT http://www.irr.org.uk/std/irr_logo_rss.gif http://www.irr.org.uk 144 23 http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ha000008.html The Race Equality Partnership of Kensington and Chelsea is holding its quarterly meeting which marks the 50th Anniversary of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ha000007.html Below is an edited version of an article that appears in the current issue of Race & Class. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ha000006.html Anyone who wants to know why attitudes towards refugee children are changing should consult Shared Futures. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ha000005.html In the latest issue of the IRR's journal Race & Class, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose ask why and how a small Middle Eastern country has successfully positioned itself as 'European', even though it is in breach of Europe's humanitarian conventions and condemned by many UN resolutions. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ha000004.html Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) are holding an event to launch Am I safe yet?, a book of stories of women seeking asylum in Britain. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ak000001.html A conference, organised by the Black and Asian Studies Association, to promote inclusive education drawing upon Black history research and resources, involving parents and community groups as well as teachers and pupils. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000026.html Do you teach citizenship, history or PSHE at key stages 3 or 4? http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000025.html Below, we reproduce the speech made by Cerie Bullivant* on living under control orders at the launch of 'Captivated: Art of the Interned'. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000024.html A number of London unions have severed all links with the London Mayor's Rise Festival. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000023.html Demonstration organised by International Congolese Rights. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/july/ak000003.html The July 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Hilary and Steven Rose's extended argument for an academic boycott of Israel, features Matt Carr's study of the US assault on Fallujah and Jerry Harris' analysis of US imperialism after the defeat in Iraq. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000022.html Asylum Dialogues - drawn from real conversations between British people and asylum seekers, this new iceandfire/Actors for Human Rights production highlights the difficulties asylum seekers face here. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000021.html The organisation Cageprisoners is calling for urgent action for a stateless Palestinian refugee, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, who is in a critical condition in a London hospital after being on hunger strike for over thirty days. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000020.html An astonishing exhibition was launched this week in central London of poetry, pottery, paintings, crafts, pictures, photographs, cartoons - all created by men detained under anti-terror laws in the UK. http://www.irr.org.uk/2008/june/ha000019.html Cageprisoners and Together present a unique art exhibition, comprising the works of those men detained without trial in the UK to highlight mental health concerns.