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A Facebook campaign was set up denouncing the prosecution of a French couple motivated by anti-Arab racism.
The victim of a vicious Islamophobic attack awaits the verdict of a Versailles appeal court after his alleged attackers, one a known violent racist, were acquitted.
Graham Murray reports on the ‘normalisation’ of extreme Right politics in France.
A statement on the murders in Toulouse and Montauban from the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF).
As Belgium and France move to ban the burqa, the IRR European Race Audit (ERA) publishes today a briefing paper on 'The background to the French parliamentary commission on the burqa and niqab'.
The IRR European Race Audit (ERA) publishes today two briefing papers on the Swiss referendum against minarets and the ways in which direct democracy can be hijacked by the extreme Right.
An interview with Boualem Azahoum, an activist with DiverCités and El Ghorba in Lyon.
An interview with Abdul Zahiri, an activist with ACJ REV in Avignon.
An interview with Zahra Ali, president of Al Houda, a Muslim women's organisation.
An interview with Pierre Didier, president of the Social Forum of the Banlieues.
A death in police custody in south-east France is causing community concern.
In debates surrounding the complex social, political and economic situation that France is facing, the far Right has continued to exercise its political voice. Yet young people from the banlieues (suburbs), many of whom are affected by racism and discrimination as part of their everyday lives, suffer from a dearth of political representation and are depicted as anomic, apolitical 'casseurs' - thugs intent on destroying the very fabric of French society rather than developing their own political voice.
Excerpts from 'France: the riots and the Republic' an article which will be published in Race & Class, April, 2006.
In a new book, an undercover journalist exposes the shocking treatment of detainees at France's ZAPI 3 holding centre.
May 1 2003
After Sangatte – assistance criminalised
Calais residents who dare to help asylum seekers in northern France are being criminalised by the French authorities, according to the Kent Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers.
According to the National Coordination of Sans Papiers, the movement of undocumented workers, 'This struggle is becoming a central issue in French politics and life.'
Dec 6 2012
Which way forward on racial profiling?
A review of the major development in initiatives against racial profiling in European policing.
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