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Statement of IRR concerns regarding the decision to proscribe Palestine Action
In November 2023, four UN Special Rapporteurs (part of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council) pointed out that the ...
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Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below
Europe’s increased use of weaponry against racialised minorities, migrants and protesters, signifies creeping authoritarianism – IRR new study finds The new study, published on the fifth anniversary ...
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Pandering to base populism - Institute of Race Relations
15 – 30 April 2025 Home secretary Yvette Cooper’s shameless decision, in the run-up to the May local elections, to publish statistics on the nationalities of foreign offenders and their crimes, and ...
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IRR concerns about the return of 'race science': full statement to the Guardian - Institute of Race Relations
17 October 2024 In a Guardian piece following a Guardian/ Hope Not Hate investigation into an international network of activists and academics seeking to normalise scientific racism, IRR Director Liz ...
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Review of ‘Speaking Truth to Power: the life and times of an African Caribbean British man’
Anne-Ysore Onana-Oteba reviews the biography of Arthur France, a community activist who founded the Leeds Carnival 57 years ago. I have heard the story of my father’s journey from Cameroon to France ...
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Stop changing the subject – the problem is fascism
These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This ...
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‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Lauren Wroe and Patrick Williams, three leading experts in law, criminal justice and legal and social policy, is published ...
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Joint enterprise, ‘gangs’ and racism: time to halt this continued injustice
[1] The CPS areas included in the pilot were North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humberside, Merseyside and Cheshire, the West Midlands, London North and London South. [2] In joint enterprise cases ...
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NatCon and the British war on woke: what you need to know
IRR News 11 – 25 May 2023 The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of ...
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Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change?
Twenty-four years separates them, but both the Macpherson report and the Casey report identified ‘poor service provision’ as at the heart of institutional racism in policing. Writing from an ...
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Britannia Enchained: Policing Workers and Human rights
Policing workers As more and more people – nurses, transport workers and other key public sector workers whose jobs can’t be automated (yet) – rediscover the power of collective responses to ...