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LATEST IRR NEWS ARTICLES
c o m m e n t
Concern at new asylum measures
http://www.irr.org.uk/2003/december/ak000001.html
By FRANCES WEBBER, 5:00pm, 1 December 2003 --- Refugee groups
and lawyers believe that the new Asylum Bill will result in profound
changes in the legal and constitutional landscape of Britain as well as
stripping asylum seekers of further legal and social rights.
c o m m e n t
Analysis: the quarterly asylum statistics
http://www.irr.org.uk/2003/december/ak000002.html
By ARUN KUNDNANI, 5:00pm, 1 December 2003 --- Ministers have
trumpeted the quarterly asylum statistics as evidence that their tough
policies are working. Do the figures prove their case? And what is the
impact on asylum seekers?
Rising deaths as a result of racial violence
http://www.irr.org.uk/2003/december/ha000003.html
By INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS, 11:00am, 3 December 2003 ---
Research by the Institute of Race Relations shows that since the
beginning of 1999, at least thirty-five murders with a racial element
were committed in England, Wales and Scotland. This figure, when
compared with the four years 1994 - 1998, when twelve murders with a
racial element were committed, shows an alarming rise. For, the rate of
such murders has more than doubled.
Annual Report
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NEWS FROM OTHER SOURCES
g r e e n w i c h m e r c u r y
Racists stab Iranian man
http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0250greenwich/content_obje
ctid=13661017_method=full_siteid=50100_headline=-Police-hunt-for-race-kn
ifeman-name_page.html
Three white men attacked and racially abused a 32-year-old
Iranian man in Greenwich. He was stabbed several times and is likely to
be scarred for life.
l i v e r p o o l e c h o
Contract of private company supplying housing to asylum seekers
terminated
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/content_obj
ectid=13664164_method=full_siteid=50061_headline=-Refugees%2Dmove%2Dout%
2Dof%2Dsub%2Dstandard%2Dhomes-name_page.html
The government announced the termination of Landmark's contract,
to provide housing to 600 asylum seekers in Liverpool, saying the
housing was sub-standard.
d a i l y p o s t
T&G Union member stands for BNP in North Wales
http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/content_objectid=1
3667344_method=full_siteid=50142_headline=-Union-s-fury-as-member-stands
-for-BNP-name_page.html
Transport and General Workers Union member, John Walker, is to
stand in a Flintshire County Council by-election in December. The T&G
has begun an investigation into whether he should be expelled.
b b c n e w s
Jewish graves vandalised
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/3286583.stm
21 headstones in the Jewish section of Chatham municipal
cemetery in Kent have been vandalised.
b b c n e w s
Guilty verdict in Johnny Delaney trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3246518.stm
Two youths have been found guilty of killing teenage Traveller,
Johnny Delaney, in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, in May. But the judge ruled
the attack was not racially-motivated.
b b c n e w s
Dungavel hit by roof-top protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3255410.stm
Three Algerian refugees staged a rooftop protest at Dungavel
detention centre.
i n d e p e n d e n t o n s u n d a y
Home Office plans to expel asylum-seeking children
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=468620
Independent on Sunday reveals government plans to repatriate
unaccompanied children seeking asylum to countries such as Albania,
Kosovo and Macedonia.
a m n e s t y i n t e r n a t i o n a l
AI criticises government plans to return asylum seekers to Iraq
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver/document/15030
Amnesty International criticises plans by Home Secretary David
Blunkett to force Iraqi asylum seekers back to Iraq.
g u a r d i a n
MP's insult to Muslim constituents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,1095038,00.html
Muslims in the Rotherham constituency of Foreign Office Minister
Ian MacShane issued a motion of no confidence after his comments that
Muslims should choose the British way of life over 'terrorism'.
w i m b l e d o n g u a r d i a n
Gang attack on Asian student
http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.437589.0.c
hild_gang_puts_student_in_hospital.php
A 21-year-old Asian student was punched and kicked to the ground
and needed twelve stitches to a head wound after a gang of children
attacked him in Mitcham.
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