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Search for Issue: "Racism" returned 89 records. |
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publications/research 14 October 2005 |
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Out of the spotlight: The rights of foreigners and minorities are still a grey area |
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This report outlines the situation in Greece. It documents a consistent pattern of human rights violations across a range of fields that stem from the failure of the state to combat discrimination, in the practices of its representatives as well as of non-state actors. |
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5 Ocotober 2005
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full-text,
website
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Amnesty International |
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publications/research 18 October 2005 |
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AusgeLAGERt. Exterritoriale Lager und der EU-Aufmarsch an den Mittelmeergrenzen [Outsourced. Extraterritorial camps and the EU's deployment of forces in the Mediterranean] |
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This excellent report criticises the externalisation of EU policy on asylum and migration and details research and analysis of the developing 'Lagersystem' in northern Africa. |
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September 2005
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Report extracts and order details,
Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen
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Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen, Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration |
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campaigns/open letters 18 October 2005 |
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International appeal to abolish the EUs extraterritorial refugee camps and to demand a public inspection of the inhumane internment camps of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean region |
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In May this year, the EU initiated its third attempt to probe the foreign policy situation to assess if it can set up extraterritorial refugee camps in northern Africa. Sign this international appeal to protest against the policy of externalisation and stop the plans from going ahead. |
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Full-text
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Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie e.V. |
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campaigns/open letters 18 October 2005 |
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Action tour against Europe's camp system. For freedom of movement! Equal rights for everyone! |
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Everywhere around the globe people are fighting against camps, partly from the inside, partly from the outside. We will pick up this issue on September 24./25. 2005 – with a two-day action tour against Europe's camp system. |
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For more information see campaign website
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no-lager network |
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publications/research 24 October 2005 |
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Working with the media: guide for anti-racist campaigners and refugee rights activists |
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Working with the media is essential to any successful campaigning work or community activism. This
guide aims to assist those in anti-racist and refugee rights campaigns to work with the media in a confident, strategic and effective way. |
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October 2005
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Guide full-text,
IRR website
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Institute of Race Relations (IRR) |
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demonstrations 02 November 2005 |
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European caravan against the fence: no-one is illegal |
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We invite you all, men and women from the different european cities, to join us in ths journey... raising our voices to say "basta" to the fence of death and to everything it symbolizes: not in our name. |
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Europe Departs 4-6 November 2005
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Invitation
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No border network |
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campaigns/open letters 11 November 2005 |
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Refugees in Germany demand right to free movement |
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Cornelius Yufanyi, a refugee from Cameroon and member of the human rights organisation The Voice Refugee Forum is threatened with imprisonment for having violated the travel restriction regulation imposed on asylum seekers in Germany. The refugee and human rights group is demanding an end to the proceedings and asking for support in their fax campaign to demand the right to free movement and an end to exceptional laws for foreigners in Germany. |
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The Voice Refugee Forum
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The Voice Refugee Forum |
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publications/research 11 November 2005 |
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Laika |
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A new German-language bi-monthly journal has been launched covering events in eastern Europe. The aim of the publication is not to merely to counter existing stereotypes of eastern Europeans in Germany but to discuss possibilities of political collaboration to formulate a cross-border left-wing politics that applies to eastern and western Europe whilst the label 'communism' has become either tainted with state authoritarianism or obsolete amongst most activist circles. Laika offers a space to discuss these questions. |
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Germany 2005
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meetings/conferences 11 November 2005 |
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IPPNW meeting "Achten statt verachten - Menschenrechte für Migranten ohne Papiere" in Berlin ["Respect not despise - human rights for migrants without papers" |
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The pictures of African refugees outside the barbed wire fences in Ceuta and Melilla shock us and show that Europe has become a Fortress. But within this Fortress, Germany alone is home to around 500,000 to 1 million migrants without legal residency rights who are in contiunous fear of deportation. This meeting will inform about the situation of these people and discuss how the legal and political 'grey zone' they live in means they are denied basic human rights. |
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Berlin (Germany) 10 December 2005
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IPPNW
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German section of the IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) |
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meetings/conferences 11 November 2005 |
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Sweatshops, workers and international solidarity: A conference for activists. |
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No Sweat’s fifth annual gathering, with high-profile speakers, films, debate, and training sessions. Programme includes film and discussion on the Bolivian Gas and Water Wars and Argentina’s Occupied Factory movement. The conference will also look at Africa’s problems in the aftermath of the G8 summit and discussions on the sweatshop-produced clothes sold by the Arcadia group. Migrant work is discussed with the case of the Canary Wharf organising drive with a TGWU organiser. |
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SOAS, University of London 26 November 2005 (12:00 - 6:00 pm)
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Book conference tickets online
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No Sweat Network |
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) |
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Group campaigning against laws based on a pretext of counter-terrorism |
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UK
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CAMPACC website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EALDH) |
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A democratic confederation of diverse national associations of democratic lawyers |
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Europe
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EALDH website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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European Race Audit |
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Part of the Institute of Race Relations, based in London, founded in 1956 |
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UK
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IRR website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Hellenic League for Human Rights |
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Founded in 1953 |
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Greece
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Humanistische Union |
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Founded in 1961, Germany's oldest civil liberties organisation |
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Germany
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Mugak |
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Covers immigration, racism and xenophobia, based in the Basque country |
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Spain
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Mugak website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Pat Finucane Centre |
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Working for human rights and social change in the North of Ireland |
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Ireland (North)
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PFC website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Radio Nizkor |
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Europe's frst human rights radio station |
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Spain
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Statewatch |
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Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe |
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UK
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Statewatch website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Supporto Legale |
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legal advice and monitoring of the trials arising from the G8 demonstrations in 2001, Genova |
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Italy
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website
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demonstrations 11 November 2005 |
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Campsfield: 12 years too long |
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Demonstration marking 12 years of immigration detention at Campsfield |
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Campsfield, Oxfordshire 26 November 2005
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poster,
Close Campsfield website
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Close Campsfield campaign |
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campaigns/open letters 11 November 2005 |
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NON A L'ÉTAT D'EXCEPTION [Statement opposing the state of emergency in France]
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On 8 November 2005, a number of French associations and NGOs, including the Syndicate de la Magistrature (a left wing judges' union), the lawyers' trade union Syndicate des avocats de France, the Green and French Communist parties and the Ligue des droits de l'homme, issued a statement to criticise the calling of a state of emergency.
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Statement
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Numerous French associations and NGOs |
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campaigns/open letters 11 November 2005 |
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PAS DE JUSTICE, PAS DE PAIX [No justice, no peace] |
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Statement by the immigrant movement MIB on the situation in France |
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statement
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Mouvement de l'immigration et des banlieues |
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publications/research 21 November 2005 |
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The authoritarian within: Reflections on power, knowldge and resistance |
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Phil Scraton, Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Queen’s University, Belfast, 9 June 2005 |
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July 2005
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full-text
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Phil Scraton |
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meetings/conferences 15 December 2005 |
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Defy Section 9 [S.9 of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act UK allows the withdrawal of all state support and threats to
take children of asylum seekers into care if they do not leave] |
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A working conference for trade unionists, anti-deportation
campaigners and anti-racists. Plenaries and workshops on:
• campaigning against section 9
• local anti-deportation campaigns - how to win
• defending civil liberties
• racism / fascism - defence of asylum seekers
• co-ordinating our campaigns |
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Manchester, UK 28 January 2006
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leaflet
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NUT, CDAS and others |
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meetings/conferences 15 December 2005 |
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Order and Violence: Delimiting Control - CALL FOR PAPERS - British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control - Easter Conference, Hull 2006 |
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The ‘war on terror’ and threats to civil liberties - State and anti-state terror; Privatization and ‘othering’ of state violence -- The politics of mass incarceration: Ideologies of violence and control; ‘Ironies of social control’: evoking ‘evil’; Acculturation to the ‘new realities’: contemporary ‘truth’ telling games; Conscientious objectors and civil disobedience; Ideologies and identities -- Violence and control in everyday life: ‘Gender’, ‘race’ and violence; Cultural criminology: a new approach or an under-theorised melting-pot?; Cultures of behavioural control in the UK: from the cradle to the grave. Please send abstracts to: a.ward@hull.ac.uk and/or abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk
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Hull, UK 19-21 April 2006
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European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control |
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publications/research 18 December 2005 |
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EUMC Annual Report 2005 |
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The report looks at the evidence of discrimination in employment, housing and education, as well as racist crime data, and at measures being taken to combat this. The Roma emerge as the group most vulnerable to racism in the EU. They face discrimination in employment, housing and education - as well as being regular victims of racial violence. Other groups facing high levels of discrimination in many Member States are migrant workers from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Muslim groups face particularly challenging conditions in many Member States. Also recent migrants from Russia or the Ukraine may be subject to discrimination in some Member States. |
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November 2005
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full text
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The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) |
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publications/research 21 December 2005 |
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Mujeres, Integración y Prisión |
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Research project carried out by partner organisations in Spain, Italy, England and Wales, Germany, France and Hungary. Country reports, comparative analysis and policy recommendations concerning the situation of women in prison and integration. Available from marta@surt.org . |
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Barcelona June 2005
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Book presentation event,
SURT Asociació de Dones per a la Reinserció Laboral
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SURT - Marta Cruells & Noelia Igareda |
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campaigns/open letters 29 December 2005 |
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Refugee threatened with imprisonment for resisting travel restrictions in Germany |
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The German self-organised refugee group The Voice and the Göttinger Arbeitskreis zur Unterstützung von Asylsuchenden e.V. is asking support for the campaign to stop the imprisonment of Cornelius Yufanyi for fighting for his right to free movement. |
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FAX Campaign for Cornelius Yufanyi !!!,
Press release,
The Voice e.V.
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The Voice Refugee Forum e.V. |
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campaigns/open letters 23 January 2006 |
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European-wide Action Week Against Racism 2006 |
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21 March was declared International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by the General Assembly of the United Nations as a reaction to the murder of 70 anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, in 1960. During the annual European-wide Action Week, which centres around 21 March, thousands of people actively engage themselves for tolerance, equal rights and celebrate the diversity of Europe. This year once again hundreds of activities will take place all around Europe, organised by a wide variety of organisations.
Activities range from intercultural youth festivals, cleaning off the walls racist slogans, to multicultural football matches. |
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Campaign information,
UNITED
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UNITED |
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publications/research 21 February 2006 |
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Freedom of speech is not an absolute: an interview with A. Sivanandan |
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YS: What is your analysis of the controversy surrounding the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad? ... AS: Europe holds that freedom of speech is the very basis of western democracy and cannot therefore be compromised or watered down. It is an absolute. But that is a fallacy. No freedom is an absolute. Every freedom carries with it its own responsibility... |
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13 February 2006
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Interview
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Yohan Shanmugaratnam, IRRnews |
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demonstrations 10 March 2006 |
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International Demos and Protests Against the Invasion of Iraq |
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On March 20 2003, George Bush, Tony Blair and Jose Marie Aznar launched the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Three years later the occupation is a blight on the conscience of the world.
All over the globe plans are being made for protests in March 2006 to mark the anniversary of the start of the war and to call for its rapid end. Demonstrations have been organised in more than 40 European cities. |
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Europe-wide 18-20 March 2006
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www.march-in-march.org - International Anti-War Mobilisation
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Stop the war |
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demonstrations 10 March 2006 |
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Melbourne 2006 - XVIII Stolenwealth Games - Divided by history |
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The 2006 Commonwealth Games is an opportunity for Australia to showcase its success and wealth to the rest of the former British Empire... The Stolenwealth Games Convergence is planned as an organic meeting of autonomous individuals organising amongst themselves. Most protests and events will be planned by consensus of opinion at the camp. |
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Melbourne, Australia 11-26 March 2006
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Stolenwealth Games website
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Stolenwealth Games Convergence |
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demonstrations 10 March 2006 |
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Invitation to join in first annual international action against immigration
detention |
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To all organisations and individuals opposed to the detention of refugees and other migrants. You are invited to participate in a period of actions against immigration detention in countries around the world in April 2006 including the weekend of 15-16 April. The aim is to spread opposition to detention; create contacts between anti-detention groups in different countries; move towards a more prepared and larger second period of international anti detention actions in April 2007. Please send updates and details on events or actions to barbedwirebritain.org.uk |
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Worldwide April 2006
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Barbed-wire Britain website
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UK and Australian anti-detention and refugee rights groups |
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meetings/conferences 10 March 2006 |
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Migrations, liberté de circulation et développement |
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La dramatisation contemporaine du fait migratoire, pourtant historiquement et géographiquement universel, le déferlement de passions, notamment nationalistes et xénophobes, mais aussi les croyances et les phantasmes d’envahissement qui submergent les débats publics à ce sujet tant en Europe qu’au Maghreb rendent plus que jamais nécessaires l’expression et la formation de regards critiques, par les sciences sociales notamment, sur les enjeux très actuels des migrations entre l’Afrique et l’Europe. |
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à l’INSEA, Rabat (Maroc) 27-30 March 2006
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TERRA website, conference details
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TERRA et réseaux interassociatifs Migreurop et Shabaka |
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links to ECLN groups 15 March 2006 |
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Greek Helsinki Monitor |
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Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), founded in 1993, monitors, publishes, lobbies, and litigates on human and minority rights and anti-discrimination issues in Greece and in
the Balkans. It also monitors Greek and, when opportunity arises, Balkan media for stereotypes and hate speech. It issues press releases and prepares (usually jointly with other NGOs) detailedannual reports; parallel reports to UN Treaty Bodies; and specialized reports on ll-treatment and on ethno-national, ethno-linguistic, religious and immigrant communities, in Greece and in other Balkan countries. It operates a website and two web lists covering human rights issues and comprehensive and comparable presentations of minorities in the Balkan region. |
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Greece
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GHM website,
Balkan Human Rights List,
Greek Human Rights List,
CEDIME website
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meetings/conferences 26 March 2006 |
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The Regulation of migration, asylum and movement in the "new Europe" - call for papers |
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The impact of the 2004 Madrid and 2005 London bombings brought a new
and fiercely regulatory extension to the movement of people in the context of
the ‘war on terror’. Other events, such as the assassination of the film director
Van Gogh in the Netherlands or the riots at the suburbs of Paris, brought up
new questions about immigration policies and models of integration in Europe.
Ironically, these policies and models have consolidated at the very time that
the European Union is going through unprecedented expansion to include
member states from the former Eastern bloc. In turn, expansion has revived
theoretical and political debates about ‘old’ and ‘new’ immigration and modes
of social control or conflict. |
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Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece 31 August - 3 September 2006
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Call for papers
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34th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control |
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demonstrations 31 March 2006 |
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Demonstation against racist state violence, cover up and impunity |
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Can a person burn himself to death while tied at his hands and feet? How is it possible that a person in a so-called security area of a jail cell burns alive and the causes as to his death remain unclear for over a year? Why did the responsible police officer turn off the
acoustic surveillance? |
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Central train station, Dessau, Germany 1 April 2006 (13:00)
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Mobilisation update
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The VOICE Refugee Forum |
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meetings/conferences 18 April 2006 |
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OSCE International NGO Conference |
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Workshops: Security Concept OSCE; Human Trafficking; Small Arms; Racism (TBC); Kosovo; Drugs trafficking and use; Kaukasus; Dialogue among religions; Fight against Terrorism and Respect for Human Rights; Future of the OSCE. |
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Palace d’Egmont, Brussels 16-17 May 2006
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Conference website and programme etc.
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OSCE NGO |
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campaigns/open letters 20 May 2006 |
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International Conference THE FRONTIERS OF EUROPE - Absence of Law |
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20-21 October 2006, Barcelona |
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EALDH,
European Democratic lawyers (EDA)
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European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EALDH) |
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meetings/conferences 21 May 2006 |
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Dutch Social Forum |
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Following the World Social Forum and the European Social Forum, the Dutch Social Forum is an open meeting place for the exchange of ideas, the creation and the strengthening of networks and a breeding ground for action. The DSF aims to unite as many people as possible who want to work on a different world, and a different Holland. |
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Nijmegen. 21/05/2006
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DSF website
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publications/research 22 May 2006 |
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Russian Federation: Racism and xenophobia rife in Russian society |
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Racially-motivated killings, beatings and discrimination are on the increase in the Russian Federation, according to a new report. AI's latest report examines cases of assaults, some of them fatal, against foreign students, asylum-seekers and refugees from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America; members of ethnic groups and migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia; as well as members of the Jewish community and Roma. It reveals the failure of the authorities to prevent racially-motivated attacks through adequate policing, and to investigate and prosecute the vast majority of such attacks effectively. |
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04/05/2006
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Press Release,
AI
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Amnesty International |
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publications/research 23 May 2006 |
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Informe Anual sobre el racismo en el Estado español 2006 |
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Annual report by SOS Racismo which includes a review of racist incidents and analysis, divided into sections on EU policies, the Roma, immigration policy and legislation in Spain, the tragedy on the southern borders, the situation of minors, social and employment rights, the media, racism in society, racism by members of police forces and private security firms, and the far right. |
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Spain April 2006
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SOS Racismo Madrid,
SOS Racismo - informe Anual 2006 (buy it here)
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SOS Racismo |
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demonstrations 02 June 2006 |
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Liberiamo le nostre vite. Liberi/e tutti/e, Liberi/e subito |
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Appeal and poster for a demonstration to be held in Milan on 17 June to demand the freeing of 25 people who are in detention as a result of clashes during an anti-fascist march on 11 March 2006. |
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Milan June 2006
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Appello e manifesto corteo 17 giugno
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Social movements from Milan |
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campaigns/open letters 07 June 2006 |
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Manifesto contra a Homofobia |
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For the International Day against homophobia, Opus Gay, an organisation working on LGBT rights issues, calls on the Portuguese government to comply with recommendations issued by the EU and EP. Calls for the introduction in the penal code of the aggravating circumstance of crimes committed for reasons of "sexual hatred" and for the legal recognition of LGBT organisations, so as to allow them to represent victims of crimes committed for reasons of sexuality. |
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Manifesto contra a Homofobia,
Opus Gay - Associação Obra Gay
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Opus Gay |
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meetings/conferences 29 June 2006 |
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IRR lunchtime seminars |
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The final three seminars in the series: Monday 10 July: ASYLUM LAW: CREEPING CRIMINALISATION; Monday 17 July: THE EURABIAN NIGHTMARE; Monday 31 July: THE NEED FOR MEDICAL JUSTICE: OBTAINING EFFECTIVE
HEALTHCARE FOR DETAINED ASYLUM SEEKERS. The seminars will be held on Mondays at the IRR. They will start
promptly at 1pm and end at 2.15pm. Seats are limited so please book your place by phone (020 7837 0041) or email (info@irr.org.uk) if you wish to attend
a seminar or if there are other people that you think should be invited to
participate. |
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London July 2006
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IRR website
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Institute of Race Relations |
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meetings/conferences 29 June 2006 |
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Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror |
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How should we respond to the attacks on our civil rights, refugee rights and our multicultural society - carried out in the name of national security? Join leading campaigners, lawyers and thinkers in debating how we can defend our liberties and our communities... Panel discussions: The impact of anti-terror powers in the UK; The attack on multiculturalism; Detention and incarceration; Combating racial violence; Civil liberties: the racial dimension; Liberty and the global war on terror; Campaigning against deportations; Defending international conventions |
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Conway Hall, Central London 16 September 2006
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Programme and booking information
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Institute of Race Relations |
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demonstrations 18 July 2006 |
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Manif contre le racisme |
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Magatte Mbengue was violently mistreated by police officers when she was in Madrid airport, in transit, on the way from Senegal to France in November 2005. She gave her account of the treatment she received, and of the discriminatory treatment that was reserved to all black paasengers on her flight, in a blog entitled "The right to dignity". On 19 July, demonstrators will march to demonstrate outside the Spanish embassy to support her. |
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Paris (France) 19 July 2006
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Manif contre le racisme,
Droit à la dignité,
Madrid, policiers raciste (account of events from Libération),
Petition (for signing)
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Magatte Mbengue - Droit a la dignité |
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publications/research 12 August 2006 |
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Antifaschistisches Infoblatt |
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In 1986, German historians embarked on a project to rehabilitate the German nation from its fascist past and the singularity of the Holocaust, which the Frankfurt school, based on their analytical approach to explaining the Holocaust and modernity, had earlier identified as specific to the German nation-state, its racial construction of a 'Volk' and tendency towards "The Authoritarian Personality" (Theodor Adorno, 1950) . Habermas first warned about the "apologetic tendencies" that started to characterise German history writing shortly after the conservatives took power in 1982, when chancellor Kohl announced an "intellectual and moral sea change". Historians started to call for the "normalisation" of the way Germans should analyse, interpret and feel about their Nazi past, and specifically the Holocaust. The historian Ernst Nolte vigorously pursued the theory that the fascists drive to eradicate Jews and 'non-Arians' was in fact fuelled, even triggered, by the crimes of the Bolshevists, the Gulag and 'class murder'. This so-called 'historian dispute' (Historikerstreit) has characterised German politics and history writing ever since, taking various revisionist forms; it is linked to right-wing apologetic justifications for the Holocaust, used by Neo-Nazis to gain a veneer of legitimacy, and it is frequently used to vilify Communism. This issue of AIB shows how the seemingly outdated historians dispute is still important today; also includes a CD-Rom featuring various bands and anti-fascist initiatives talking about the fight against Neo-Nazis in Germany and regular news columns on the fascist and anti-fascist scene in Germany. |
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Summer 2006
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AIB background Information,
Order details
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Antifaschistisches Infoblatt (AIB) |
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publications/research 31 August 2006 |
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Fenomenologia di una strategia - Il reato di devastazione e saccheggio per i fatti dell'11 marzo a Milano. |
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This dossier analyses the evidence and charges brought against antifascist activists involved in a demonstration to prevent a fascist march in Milan on 11 March 2006 which resulted in violent incidents. It highlights the seriousness of charges of "destruction and looting" that were brought, which are more suited to fully-fledged popular uprisings than to the limited disturbances that took place. Nonetheless, and in spite of a lack of evidence of the involvement of individual defendants in specific criminal acts, the fast-track trial that was held resulted in 18 activists receiving 4-year sentences. Issues of collective criminalisation and the random nature of arrests are examined. |
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Milan 1 August 2006
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Dossier 11 marzo (cover page),
Dossier 18 innocenti,
Supporto Legale (ignore security alert to view)
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Supporto Legale |
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publications/research 01 September 2006 |
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Perfil racial en España: Investigaciones y recomendaciones |
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Groundbreaking report to examine the practice of racial profiling by police forces in Spain. Looks at the situation of ethnic minorities, the organisation of police forces and practices of stop-and-search and the carrying out of arrests. The report notes that "racial profiling contributes to unnecessarily increasing tension in police-community relations which are often already tense, as well as being an ineffective and illegal practice". |
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Madrid August 2006
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Perfil racial en España,
Grupo de Estudios y Alternativas 21,
Open Society Justice Initiative
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Daniel Wagman, GEA 21 / Open Society Justice Initiative |
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publications/research 02 September 2006 |
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Between moral cowardice and illegality: the Government takes another step to consolidate the Spanish model of impunity |
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The report of the "Inter-Ministerial Commission" and the "Draft Law to recognise and broaden rights and to establish measures in favour of those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the dictatorship", the submission of which to the Houses of Parliament was approved by the Council of Ministers on 28th July 2006, are consistent with the contents of the motion of Deputy Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, which was passed by Congress on 1st June 2004, and, specifically, with the report requested in the said motion. This demonstrates that notwithstanding the delays in submitting the report, there existed a pre-existing agreement on the subject. This agreement does not reflect the demands of the victims' and human rights associations. |
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Brussels and Madrid 1 September 2006
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Report in English,
Información Español,
Radio Nizkor
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Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights |
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publications/research 05 September 2006 |
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Archivio aggressioni fasciste 2006 |
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A listing of fascist attacks to date in Italy in 2006. They include attacks against social centres, activists, "others", party branches and vandalism or fascist graffiti. One of the last entries is the murder of Renato Biagietti on 27 August 2006 in Focene/Ostia. Biagietti used to frequent the Acrobax social centre in Rome, and was stabbed by a fascist after attending a reggae party. |
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Italy 5 September 2006
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Archivio aggressioni fasciste 2006,
Antifascismo militante
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Antifascismo militante |
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demonstrations 03 October 2006 |
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70th anniversary of the battle of Cable Street |
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This is a significant anniversary, particularly when fascists are advancing today in places like Barking and Dagenham. NAAR supports this event and calls on everyone to attend it. |
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Cable St., London E1 8 October 2006
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Flyer,
NAAR website
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National Assembly Against Racism |
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links to ECLN groups 03 October 2006 |
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Newham Monitoring Project |
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Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) is a community based organisation in East London that has been fighting racial harassment and civil injustice for 25 years.
Throughout this time NMP has always pursued one simple aim - the right to a life free from harassment, safe from attack. NMP provides a 24-hour Emergency Helpline that offers immediate and specialist support to people facing racial harassment or police misconduct. In addition to this we provide casework support and outreach projects. |
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London, UK
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NMP website
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publications/research 06 October 2006 |
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Le Livre Noir de Ceuta et Melilla |
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On the anniversary of the shootings in Ceuta and Melilla, the Migreurop network has published a “black book” to document the situation in the two Spanish north African enclaves, which features analysis, photographs and extensive testimonies from migrants themselves. Through "The black book of Ceuta and Melilla", the Migreurop network seeks to allow the victims of last year’s events to speak, at the same time as placing this repression within the European context of the externalisation of border control policies and policies to deny the right of free movement to the peoples of the South. The 17 deaths of Ceuta and Melilla are, in fact, the most visible consequence of a policy that is being pursued and whose unnamed victims are limited to silence and anonimity. |
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France October 2006
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Intro: Le Livre Noir de Ceuta et Melilla (in French),
The Black Book of Ceuta and Melilla (pdf, 106 pages, in French),
Migreurop
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Migreurop |
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publications/research 12 October 2006 |
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Informe Frontera Sur. 1995-2005: Diez años de violación de los derechos humanos |
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The report includes a round-up of events involving "an impressive range" of human rights violations, including information about 379 "illegal" deportations of sub-Saharan Africans to Morocco in Ceuta. The report contains a detailed chronology of events in 2005-2006, round-ups of significant events from previous years (1995-2004), direct testimonies from migrants, as well as analysis of European and Spanish policies in this field, with a special focus on Africa. A collection of press statements issued and legal actions undertaken by SOS Racismo is included as an appendix to the report.
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Spain 5 October 2006
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Presentation of the report,
Informe Frontera Sur. 1995-2005: Diez años de violación de los derechos humanos,
SOS Racismo Bizkaiko (Bilbao)
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SOS Racismo |
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publications/research 19 October 2006 |
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Migration and public perception |
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European citizens are living through times of strongly felt insecurity. Geopolitical Cold War
structures have been replaced by an uncertain environment. Europe is challenged by security
threats such as terrorism. Global economic competition is growing and results in fears of job
losses. Against this background of felt insecurity, the public presentation of immigrants and
migratory phenomena by the media and by politicians is often biased or negative, linking
them often almost exclusively to security issues. The terminology commonly in use (such as
“bogus asylum seekers” and “welfare scroungers”) has often become pejorative, while in
reality migrants consist of different groups with different expectations and opportunities.
Finally, the lack of reliable and comparable statistics contributes to public confusion. |
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October 2006
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"Migration and public perception"
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Bureau of European Policy Advisers, European Commission |
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meetings/conferences 20 October 2006 |
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Reclaiming Our Rights |
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The government has been attacking our basic democratic rights through unjust principles: a presumption of guilt, punishment without trial, and pre-emptive restraints on liberty. These principles link diverse measures and pretexts. Through ASBOs the definition of ‘anti-social behaviour’ has been broadened to prohibit activities which would not otherwise be illegal, even to criminalise individuals who contravene an ASBO. ‘Anti-stalker’ laws have been used to prohibit and criminalise political protest against companies. Having broadened the definition of terrorism, ‘anti-terror’ laws are used to deter, suppress and criminalise political activities. |
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London Metropolitan University 2 December 2006
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Programme
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CAMPACC, Institute for Human Rights and Social Justice (London Metropolitan University) and others |
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campaigns/open letters 23 October 2006 |
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Open letter opposing Islamophobia |
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There has been a recent increase in racist hysteria directed against Muslims. We deplore Jack Straw’s remarks concerning the veil worn in public by some Muslim women. His intervention, the bullying attacks of John Reid and other Ministers, and stories in some sections of the media, are designed to isolate and demonise British Muslims. The result has been violence against, and intimidation of, Muslim people.
We express our solidarity with all people in Britain of the Muslim faith, affirm their right to dress as they please and live their lives in peace and security.
The current attacks on Muslims are rooted in the disastrous 'war on terror', of which this government has been such a prominent supporter. This war has made Britain more vulnerable, not less, to terrorist attack.
If the government is concerned about improving the cohesion of our communities, let it first abandon its support for the foreign policy of the US administration, including the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Download or sign letter
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Stop the War Coalition |
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meetings/conferences 23 October 2006 |
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Islamophobia and the War on Terror |
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How are the attacks on Muslims linked to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How can the anti-war movement counter those attacks in its continuing campaign to end the Bush/Blair wars? |
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Camden Centre Judd Street London WC1H Saturday 18 November 10.00am - 5.30pm
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Stop the War
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Stop the War Coalition |
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demonstrations 07 November 2006 |
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3rd day of Migration-Related Actions |
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7 October 2006 was the 3rd Day of Migration related action directed against the denial of rights, against the criminalisation of migrants and against all immigration controls. Actions took place in more than 30 cities across Europe, Africa and North America. Activists are demanding equal rights for all migrants, the closure of all detention centers in Europe and everywhere, an end to all deportations. Further, they demand an end to the externalisation process and the uncoupling of the residence permit from the labour contract to fight 'precarity'. |
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International demonstration, 7 October 2006
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Action report and pictures on noborder.org
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publications/research 07 November 2006 |
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Spain and Morocco: Failure to protect the rights of migrants – Ceuta and Melilla one year on |
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One year after 13 migrants were killed and hundreds were wounded while trying to enter the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, investigations into the actions of the Spanish and Moroccan security forces involved have still not been concluded and no preventive measures adopted. In a new report based on victims' testimonies and Amnesty International's contact with the authorities of Spain and Morocco in the last two years, the organization voices concern that there are no guarantees that investigations will be thorough, impartial and effective and no disciplinary action has been taken for the deaths and ill-treatment of migrants. This means effective impunity so far. |
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October 2006
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Report on amnesty.org,
Press Release
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Amnesty International |
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meetings/conferences 12 January 2007 |
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World Social Forum 2007 |
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The 7th World Social Forum (WSF) will be held from 20 until 25 January 2007 at the Moi International Sports Center Kasarani, Nairobi and is expected to host up to 150,000 delegates from all over the world. Over 1,000 activities will take place in the 106 spaces provided at the venue. Rallying around the call of Another World Is Possible, the World Social Forum has placed social justice, international solidarity, gender equality, peace and defence of the environment on the agenda of the world’s peoples. From its modest origins in Porto Alegre in the year 2001, to Mumbai, Bamako, Caracas, Karachi and now Nairobi, the forces and the contingents of the World Social Forum have collectively expanded the democratic spaces of those seeking concrete, sustainable and progressive alternatives to neo-liberalism and imperialist globalisation. |
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Nairobi 20/01/2007
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WSF website
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meetings/conferences 09 February 2007 |
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Human Rights and Human Wrongs |
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Critical Legal Studies and Practice; Palestine and Israel; War on Terror and Civil Liberties; Controlling Damage to the Environment; Personal Injuries and Compensation Culture;
The Human Rights Act; Immigration and Asylum;
Racism and Islamaphobia; Criminal Justice System;
Capitalism-has it a future?; and many others |
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Kent University, Canterbury, UK 24-25 February 2007,
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Conference flyer
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National Critical Lawyers’ Group Conference 2007 |
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demonstrations 13 February 2007 |
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Towards the repeal of Bossi-Fini Law. National demonstration in Bologna. |
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Towards the repeal of Bossi-Fini Law. First step: the closure of all detention centres.
Struggles against detention centres have started in 1998 and stayed at the top of the movements’ agenda. Many hoped that Prodi’s government would start to change politics in migration flows management, unfortunately it did not. There are no signs of a reform of the Bossi-Fini Law and detention centres will not be abolished, they are even extending to EU borderline countries, where migrants pass through in their journey to Europe. The left wing government continued agreements by Berlusconi with Libya and cooperation with Spain, Senegal and Malta in the military surveillance of Western and Northern Africa. In Bologna, movements have been opposing ethnic jails, invaded and dismantled them. They supported migrants and they attacked businesses involved in detention-deportation chain. This is why we propose to come together for a demonstration on 3 March in Bologna to oppose the exploitation of migrants. In the name of a different Europe, where every woman and man have the right to live freely and independently from nationality, we wish to build a mobilisation that forces governments to close all detention centres, our century’s concentration camp. |
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Bologna, Italy, 3 March 2007
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English call out
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Teatro Polivalente Occupato (TPO), Bologna |
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publications/research 24 May 2007 |
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UK: racism and the state 2007 |
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On 16 September 2006, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) held a unique conference in London on ‘Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror’, attended by over 250 participants, including human rights activists, community workers, lawyers, students, radical academics and solidarity groups. The April 2007 edition of the IRR journal Race & Class features extracts from the pioneering conference, including speeches and talks by Gareth Peirce, A. Sivanandan, Salma Yaqoob, Tony Bunyan, David Rose, Victoria Brittain and Herman Ouseley. Together with a range of other contributors from community organisations around the UK, they dissect the recent media attacks on multiculturalism and document the impact of the ‘war on terror’, both on local communities and internationally. |
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April 2007
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Institute of Race Relations
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Race & Class - conference special |
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publications/research 29 May 2007 |
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Fundamental Rights Report 2007 (German) |
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Since 1997, nine civil liberties and human rights organisations publish an annual human rights report on Germany, in which they test the German government’s conduct against every legally binding human rights and civil liberties provision laid down in the German Constitution. With a plethora of examples of state surveillance, infringements, discrimination and violations of High Court decisions, the year 2006 will also be known as a year in which fundamental rights were systematically violated by the authorities. The legitimate use of ‘torture’ debate, the use of emetics against foreigners, indiscriminate data collection during the world cup, the surveillance and interception of communication of civil rights activists, the electronic health card linking sensitive data between authorities, US-EU data transfers, unlawful detention and deportation to torturing states, police violence, employment bans, eroding the protection of journalists’ sources, unlawful police raids…the list of fundamental civil rights violations seems endless. The Fundamental Rights Report is written and compiled by the following organisations, which have announced the focus of the next year’s report will be the criminalisation and curtailment of G8 protests: Humanistische Union, Gustav Heinemann-Initiative, Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, Bundesarbeitskreis Kritischer Juragruppen, Pro Asyl, Republikanischer Anwaltsverein, Vereinigung demokratischer Juristinnen und Juristen, Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte, Neue Richtervereinigung. |
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May 2007
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Commentary on the report,
Press release Humanistische Union,
List of Contents (German),
Order online
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“Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte” et al. |
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demonstrations 29 May 2007 |
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Antiracist G8 'action and events' calendar |
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Between 2 and 7 June, thousands of refugees, migrants and activist will protest against the G8. In this context , mass actions and information events will take place under the slogans: ‘For Global Freedom of Movement’ and ‘Equal Rights for All’. Below you find links to the 'choreography of resistance', and events calendar. CALL OUT DECEMBER 2005: "We are here, because you are destroying our countries." This central slogan of the ‘Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants’ explicitly links capitalist destruction on the one hand to flight and migration on the other. The G8-governments - as well as the WTO, IMF and World Bank - are not only responsible for neocolonial relations of exploitation; they also increasingly rely on and further the intensification of processes of selection and exclusion in the Northern parts of the globe, the intensification of legal, social and political hierarchies. It is these and other developments - whether in the North or the South - that lead us to speak of a system of global Apartheid. [...] |
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Heiligendamm/Rostock, Germany 2-7 June 2007
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Updated events calendar,
Working Group Migration of the protest networks,
Caravan of Refugees and Migrants tours Germany
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campaigns/open letters 27 June 2007 |
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Call to sign Letter of protest to Spanish authorities on the gagging and killing of a Nigerian citizen Osamuyiwa Aikpitanhi during his forced deportation |
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The ‘Nigeria Village Square’, a virtual meeting spot for Nigerians all over the world, published a Protest Note to Spanish Authorities, which has so far been signed by more then 3.000 people. The protest note will be delivered to Spanish embassies around the globe at 12pm on FRIDAY June 29th. The organisers are calling on people to coordinate the delivery of the note to Spanish embassies in their cities. |
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Sign the protest note here
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'Nigeria Village Square' |
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demonstrations 27 June 2007 |
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An Invitation To The Gatwick No Border Camp 2007 |
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From 19th to 24th September 2007, noborder activists will gather at Gatwick Airport for the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and to gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of migration controls. |
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Gatwick, London, UK 19 - 24 September 2007
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More information
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noborder UK |
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publications/research 27 June 2007 |
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Aspects of contempt for Humanity in Europe. Deportation Centre Motardstraße |
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This brochure informs about the internal and external situation of Fortress Europe, and particularly the detention and racist exclusion of refugees and migrants in Germany. It provides a history of migration policy in Germany, and outlines and analyses the situation of refugees in Brandenburg, 'departure centres' and the detention camp 'Motardstraße' in Berlin. It also points the finger at the profiteers from the camp system and suggests possibilities for political intervention against the detention system within an anti-racist framework. Also includes an interview with a Motardstraße resident and provides a detailed list of existing anti-racist and migrant campaigning and support organisations as well as a helpful glossary. |
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February 2007
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Download brochure,
French version,
German version,
More information
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Bündnis gegen Lager (Network Against Camps) - Berlin/Brandenburg |
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demonstrations 11 July 2007 |
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Basta pagare per restare! |
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Report on a demonstration in Bologna on 7 July 2007 to protest against the Bossi-Fini immigration law and the practice of renewal of residence permits in the post office, at a cost of €74. Includes a letter of the migrants' claims, reminding interior minister Amato of the promise to abrogate the law, calling for an end to the practice of expensive residence permit renewals in post offices, the breaking of the link between employment and residence permits, the closing of detention centres and the possibility to withdraw their social security contributions if they choose or are forced to leave. |
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Bologna 7 July 2007
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Basta pagare per restare!,
Letter of the demonstrators' claims
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Coordinamento Migranti Bologna |
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publications/research 24 August 2007 |
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Processing data on racial or ethnic origin for antidiscrimination policies: how to reconcile the promotion of equality with the right to privacy? |
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This paper aims to explore to what extent and under which conditions the data needed to combat racial and ethnic discrimination can be collected, while fully respecting the rights of individuals. Considering first the issue of personal data protection, the paper shows that although data revealing racial or ethnic origin are subject to a special protection regime under European personal data protection norms, their processing is not prohibited in an absolute way. Second, the paper examines the problem of constructing racial or ethnic categories and classifying individuals into them. It observes the emergence in international human rights law of a norm according to which classification of individuals into racial or ethnic categories should in principle be based on self-identification. It then considers the practices of four states in this relation: the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands all have developed different classification systems for the purposes of their antidiscrimination policies. The paper concludes that human rights standards, and in particular the right to privacy, do not preclude the collection of data on racial or ethnic origin for antidiscrimination purposes, but rather define fundamental safeguards that must be respected when gathering this type of information. |
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2006
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PDF download
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Julie Ringelheim, Jean Monnet Working Paper No 8/06 |
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publications/research 24 August 2007 |
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Racism in European elections |
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Focusing on the French presidential election and the general and provincial elections in the Netherlands, the special issue of the European Race Bulletin also covers twenty-one other countries and the European Parliament. It discusses the results of the extreme Right, the impact of anti-immigration parties, debates on citizenship, asylum and integration. Disturbing instances of debates over national values descending into McCarthyite-style witch hunts and hysteria against Muslim communities - the hijab and the building of minarets in particular - being whipped up by extreme-Right groups are also revealed. |
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July 2007
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More information on the IRR website
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Institute of Race Relations |
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campaigns/open letters 29 September 2007 |
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Liberty and justice for the parents of the Roma children burnt to death in the fire of Livorno on August 10th, 2007 |
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On 10 August, four Roma children burnt to death in Livorno. A few days later a racist organization, GAPE (Armed Group for Ethnic Cleansing) claimed responsibility for the crime in a letter to local newspapers. The parents, however, were arrested. Despite this letter claiming responsibility and the fact that a forensic team of the fire department found evidence pointing to arson, charges against the parents continue being brought and they are not released from prison. |
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Campaign website,
Sign the Petition
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EveryOne Group and “Amici degli Angeli” |
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publications/research 12 November 2007 |
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Escape from Tripoli Report on the Conditions of Migrants in Transit in Libya |
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"The deaths in the desert and in the Channel of Sicily, the tortures and rapes in
detention centres funded by Italy, deportations to the Sahara, collective
refoulements, the repatriation of refugees on flights paid by Rome, deportations
from Lampedusa, murders in police stations, the abuses perpetrated by passeurs and
racist attacks in Tripoli. Everything that must not be known about the country to
which Italy and the EU entrust the control of the southern border, on the eve of Frontex patrol operations in Libya in 2008, when refoulements at sea will become the norm." |
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October 2007
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Fortress Europe,
Report (PDF)
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Fortress Europe. The observatory on victims of migrations |
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publications/research 12 November 2007 |
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FRONTEX-led EU Illegal Immigration Technical Mission to Libya. 28 May - 5 June 2007 |
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Frontex, the "European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union", reports on its second EU technical mission on illegal immigration to Libya between 28 May and 5 June 2007. |
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2007
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Report (PDF)
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Frontex |
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publications/research 12 November 2007 |
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»The truth may be bitter, but it must be told« The Situation of Refugees in the Aegean and the Practices of the Greek Coast Guard. |
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Asylum seekers are being sent back to Greece from Germany and other European countries without their applications for asylum having been thoroughly examined. The legal basis for this is the European Dublin II
Regulation under which the state through which the asylum seeker entered European territory is responsible for processing the asylum claim. For a large number of people, particularly those from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran
and Somalia, the escape route leads them across the Aegean into Greece. This report forms part of a series of fact-finding missions (to Spain/Morocco, Italy, Slovakia/Ukraine)
about human rights violations committed at the external borders of Europe, conducted by PRO ASYL. This report finds systematic refoulement of refugees at sea, illegal deportations and detention and inhumane detention conditions and makes a series of demands. |
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October 2007
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Report (PDF),
Pro Asyl: Information on reactions to the report
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Pro Asyl, Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants |
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campaigns/open letters 12 November 2007 |
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Campaign against the “11th European Police Congress“, 29th-30th of January 2008 in Berlin. Against a “Global Security Architecture”, for more security-critical behaviour! |
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Police investigation methods and the global security apparatus are increasingly violating basic democratic and human rights. Police and intelligence services want to attain unrestricted access to personal data and internet user profiles. The “European Police Congress”, a forum where politicians, police authorities, intelligence services, the military and the security industry meet to discuss the implementation of new measures for data collection and prosecution facilitates the increasing social control and authoritarian state tendencies within the EU. The 2008 Congress takes place under the motto “Information technology – investigation – operation”. On Tuesday, 29 January 2008, Schäuble, the German Minister of Internal Affairs, will speak at the “Forum of European Ministers of Internal Affairs”. A coalition of civil liberties and social justice groups is organising protest actions, with the aim to reach broad segments of society. This recent initiative is seen as a potential extension of already existing campaigns: against data retention, against anti-terrorist laws, the EU border agency Frontex and the repressive EU migration regime, against police racism and militarism. |
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11th European Police Congress home page,
More information about the campaign (English),
More information about the campaign (German)
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Six Hills |
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demonstrations 06 January 2008 |
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MEMORIAL CONFERENCES AND DEMONSTRATION IN DESSAU - in memory of Oury Jalloh, Layé Konde, Dominique Koumadio and all other victims of racist police brutality |
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With this call we would like to invite all interested people to participate in the conferences in Berlin and Dessau as well as the demonstration in Dessau, all of which will be held in memory of Oury Jalloh, Layé Konde, Dominique Koumadio and all other victims of racist police brutality.
05 January 2008 - Memorial Conference in Berlin for the victims of racist police violence; 4 p.m., Mehringhof, Gneisenaustr. 2a, U6/U7 Mehringdamm
06 January 2008 – Black Africa Conference in Dessau; 12p.m., Beat Club
07 January 2008 - Demonstration in Dessau
For the 3rd anniversary of Oury Jalloh’s murder, 1 p.m. |
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Berlin/Dessau, Germany 4-7 January 2008
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Call out (Full-text)
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The Voice e.V. Africa Forum |
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publications/research 22 January 2008 |
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Observatoire de l’institutionnalisation de la xénophobie (Observ.i.x) |
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New website. The observatory on the institutionalisation of xenophobia is a collective focussing on research concerning human beings and society in relation to governmental initiatives concerning national identity and immigration. It seeks to stimulate original independent work on the erosion of humanist perceptions of otherness and the stygmatisation of foreigners as a problem or threat in the ordinary operation of established authorities. |
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France 14 January 2008
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Observ.i.x,
Call for contributions
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Observ.i.x |
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campaigns/open letters 21 February 2008 |
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POR UNA CAMPA�A ELECTORAL SIN XENOFOBIA, SIN DISCRIMINACI�N SOCIAL, SIN EQU�VOCOS |
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A warning against the "xenophobia, fear, phobia against immigrants" that some "irresponsible political parties" are seeking to set in the election campaign. Criticism is levelled primarily at the PP (alongside the Catalan CiU and Canary islanders CC parties) and its "integration contract" proposal, viewed as an initiative that "promotes and strengthens racism". The governing PSOE party is accused of framing social policies in a way that is discriminatory, as is also argued in relation to the Basque three-party government's housing aid policy. |
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Por una campaña electoral sin xenofobia, sin discriminación social, sin equívocos
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Mugak/SOS Arrazakeria, SOS Racismo |
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demonstrations 28 March 2008 |
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Demonstrations against racism and xenophobia |
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Demonstrations and activities against racism and xenophobia organised by SOS Racismo are taking place in localities in the Basque Country, Navarre and Catalunya throughout the end of March, starting on 21 March, the international day against xenophobia. These include activities in Barcelona culminating in a demonstration on 28 March, a march from Trintxerpe to Donostia-San Sebastian on 30 March, a week against racism including documentary screenings, a concert and a talk about the media's treatment of immigration by Peio Aierbe in Iruna-Pamplona, a march against the immigration law (ley de extranjeria) in Bilbao on 28 March. |
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Basque Country, Catalunya 21-30 March 2008
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Marca-li un gol al racisme,
CONTRA LA EXCLUSIÓN, POR LA IGUALDAD,
Xenofobiaren kontra. Contra el racismo,
Medios de comunicacion, racismo y xenofobia
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SOS Racismo |
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campaigns/open letters 22 May 2008 |
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ASGI press release on violence against Roma |
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"ASGI expresses its deep concern and indignation for the very serious episodes of violence against the Roma population that occurred in Naples and other cities. For too long in our country, Roma people have become, as an ethnic-cultural group, the target for systematic violence and verbal and physical aggression, even in the extremely violent forms that characterise removals from camps where they stay, with the destruction of personal belongings, the open expression of contempt and ill-treatment against people... ASGI calls upon all those who care about the protection of fundamental human rights to react to this climate of intolerance by undertaking any kind of initiative that may be useful in order to re-affirm the legal order." |
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Comunicato stampa ASGI,
ASGI press release
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Associazione di Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione |
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demonstrations 09 July 2008 |
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Dosta… Basta … manipolazione e autoreferenzialità. Rom e Sinti: dialogo diretto e ruolo attivo |
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Public assembly and demonstration called by the Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme to say "dosta!" (enough) to racial discrimination against Roma and Sinti people, calling for principles and norms included in constitutional, European and international texts to be implemented, and for the identification of these minorities as an enemy to cease. Treating an entire community as dangerous criminals, is something that is reminiscent of the past, when it has cost many lives, and the media and political class are accused of fostering a climate of racial hatred against them by using mystification and falsehood, without giving them the right to reply. |
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Rome 10/07/2008
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Public assembly document,
Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme blog
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Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme |
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