Institute of Race Relations
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The Institute of Race Relations is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform the struggle for racial justice in Britain, Europe and internationally.
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The latest issue of Race & Class features articles examining the roots of paramilitary and structural violence in Jamaica and Hungary.
An IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16.
A paper[1], Prevent and the Children's Rights Convention, published today by the Institute of Race Relations supports the NUT's call[2] for a more rational debate on the Prevent duty in schools.
The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’.
Oct 22 2015
Prevent duty ‘heavy-handed and discriminatory’
In the week that the government announced new counter-extremism measures, the IRR publishes contributions from its seminar on 'Securitisation, Schools and Preventing Extremism', held at Garden Court Chambers on 7 October, where participants considered the consequences of a new statutory duty on public bodies to prevent non-violent extremism and whether it breached the Equality Act.
The latest issue of Race & Class features Mark McGovern’s timely analysis of the colonial roots of state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland.
The July issue of Race & Class takes up three topical themes: the monetarisation of private information, the politics of film and the demonisation of ‘anti-racism’.
The April 2015 issue of Race & Class argues that Northern Ireland’s BAME communities have been living the peace process in reverse.
The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals.
On Monday 23 March, the Institute of Race Relations published Dying for Justice which gives the background on 509 people (an average of twenty-two per year) from BAME, refugee and migrant communities who have died between 1991-2014 in suspicious circumstances in which the police, prison authorities or immigration detention officers have been implicated.
News Service
Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 7 April 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
April 7, 2016
The inversion of accountability
While the government increasingly treats human rights as optional and legal accountability for its actions as undesirable, it demands more and more accountability from citizens in the policing of migrants and 'extremists'.
April 7, 2016
Interpreting services within immigration removal centres
The lack of trained interpreters inside immigration detention exacerbates fear, mistrust and depression and has contributed to a number of deaths.
April 6, 2016
Calendar of racism and resistance (11 – 24 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe.
March 24, 2016
The IRR’s big book giveaway
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites individuals and specialist libraries and archives to take the chance of adding to their collections.
March 24, 2016
Upcoming Events
Grunwick 40 mural: community workshops at Willesden Library
A workshop run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike.
April 9, 2016
Stop G4S day school
A day of education, information and discussion leading to action through encouragement of grassroots campaigns.
April 9, 2016