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Independent Race and Refugee News Network (IRR)
IRR News is an independent news service on race and refugee issues, produced by the Institute of Race Relations, London.
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Gill Butler 1942-2012
Remembering a unique campaigner for asylum and human rights.
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NACCOM conference
The annual conference of NACCOM which works with destitute asylum seekers.
Categories: The Art of Reportage
From reaction to revolution
A meeting to audit human rights violations and victories over the last ten years.
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Abu Qatada decision causes alarm - to rights activists
As the prime minister derides the European Court of Human Rights as a 'small claims court', it isn't just the anti-human rights brigade who are worried by the its recent judgment.
Categories: The Art of Reportage
The international language of football
Reading of the allegations of racism in football, it struck me as the more sad, that, over the years, football has been for me the great leveller, the international language which speaks across countries, class and gender.
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Total disaster
Bernard Hogan-Howe's recent talk on 'total policing' at the LSE didn't go down too well.
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Where detention is the norm
A report on the UK Border Agency's management of foreign national offenders bears little reaction to the press' coverage.
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Holocaust memorial day reception
A Holocaust memorial day reception.
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Climate violence, history and resistance
A workshop examining climate change and how ideas around race and displacement inform understanding and action.
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Walthamstow Holocaust memorial day
An afternoon of reflection and discussion, remembering the victims of Nazi Germany, as well as those of genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.
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Unsafe return
A new report on returns to the DRC challenges the government's assertion that refused asylum seekers are not at risk.
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Extradition and human rights
A talk on experiences of extradition (including under the European Arrest Warrant) and discussion of recent cases.
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Fractured childhoods
A meeting on families separated by immigration detention followed by the Bail for Immigration Detainees AGM.
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Race, power and the media
An examination of the projected image of black history and culture in the media.
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Twit or tweet
The furore about Diane Abbott's tweet reveals a wilful inability to distinguish between state racism and personal prejudice.
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Germany's Stephen Lawrence
How can lessons from the Lawrence case be applied to that of Oury Jalloh, who was burned to death in a German police cell seven years ago?
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'Veto nationalism': Populism, nationalism and the Tories
An examination of the Euroscepticism, nationalism and patriotism being established by politicians and the media in the UK.
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96 murders since Stephen Lawrence's
The convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris will be bitter-sweet vindication for the family of Stephen Lawrence who have fought an 18-year campaign for justice.
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