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‘The violence of the system’: race, mental health, state violence

As Behrouz highlights, medical practitioners, including doctors, nurses and psychologists who worked in Manus Island are complicit … See more

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A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 …

WEBA new report from the IRR and Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health …

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Over-policed and under-protected: why does nothing change

WEBThe Macpherson report marked a watershed moment in British ‘race relations’ and its 70 recommendations instilled many people with hope that racially …

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Health and mental health statistics

WEBThe 2017 Race Disparity Audit found that Black women are the group most likely to have experienced a common mental disorder such as anxiety or depression and that Black …

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Covid-19 statistics

WEBResearchers looking at the deaths of 106 healthcare workers, 63% of whom were from an ethnic minority background, found 18 of the 19 doctors and dentists who had died from …

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Institutional racism in the NHS intensifies in times of crisis

WEBAs the government announces that NHS England and Public Health England will lead an inquiry into the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME …

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Police impunity – in and beyond the pandemic

WEBJCHR, The criminalisation of unauthorised encampments, 4 th report 2021-22, HC 478/ HL 37, July 2021. For details and criticism of the provisions of Part 3 see …

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The Queen’s Speech: setting the ‘public’ against its ‘enemies’

WEBWhat will be the ramifications of the Conservative government’s policies, as set out in the December Queen’s Speech, for BAME communities and all those fighting …

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BME statistics on poverty and deprivation

WEBBetween 2011 and 2022, the number of BME workers in insecure work more than doubled from 360,200 to 836,340, whilst the proportion of BME workers in low-paid …

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The Register of Racism and Resistance

WEBThe IRR is pleased to launch the Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR), a unique searchable database that documents key developments in racism and …

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Who gets to define racism

WEBIt is a ‘racist smear to describe a black person either sympathetic to, or envious of white people’, according to VoteWatch editor Jay Beecher. And for Robinson, …

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Anti-terrorism statistics

WEBIn 2017/18, of the 7,318 individuals referred to Prevent, 44% were referred for concerns related to Islamist ‘extremism’ and 18% were referred for concerns related to right wing …

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Safety or stigma

WEBIRR News contributor Kaiisha Kukendra writes on the stigmatising impact of FGM safeguarding measures on Muslim families in the UK, who campaigners argue are …

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It’s official: media coverage of asylum is distorted and unfair

WEBResearch commissioned by Article 19, a group that campaigns for free expression, has found that the British media’s coverage of asylum seekers and refugees is characterised …

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Rocky Bennett – killed by institutional racism

WEBWritten by: Harmit Athwal. The NHS, and especially its mental health services, have been branded institutionally racist by an inquiry team set up to examine …

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Statistics & definitions

WEBStatistics on key subject areas and definitions of key words and terminology. Definitions Asylum statistics Health statistics. Anti-terrorism statistics Poverty statistics Ethnicity & …

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From GPS tagging to facial recognition watches: expanding the

WEBA. Hucklesby et al., ‘Creativity and effectiveness in the use of electronic monitoring: a case study of five European jurisdictions’, European Commission briefing …

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BME Deaths in Custody 2014

WEBThe IOPC’s 2019/2020 Report shows that 23% of total deaths in or following police custody between 2015 and 2020 (i.e. 20 of 86 deaths) were people of BME background. …

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Southall Resists 40: history speaking to the now

WEBA Southall resident describes the community activities in Southall Resists 40, remembering the death of anti-fascist Blair Peach in 1979 and the historic opposition …

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