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Too young to leave behind
15 April 24
: A report from Chance UK finds that ‘boys from White Irish Traveller, White Gypsy/Roma, Black Caribbean and Mixed White and Black Caribbean backgrounds were the groups most likely to experience permanent exclusion or suspension in primary school’.
Source: Chance UK
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Black vice-chancellor eyes new generation of minority researchers
15 April 24
Birmingham City University, run by one of the UK’s few Black vice-chancellors, announces 23 free and funded places for aspiring doctoral students from ‘groups that have been historically under-represented in doctoral study’.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Migrant cleaners’ strike threat as they demand same rights as white government colleagues
14 April 24
Outsourced migrant cleaners working at the Department for Education (DfE) threaten strike action over low pay and poor work conditions, amid concerns that black workers are not afforded the same rights as their predominantly white colleagues.
Source: Independent
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: UK
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El Hiblu three receive human rights award for saving over a hundred migrants from pushback
14 April 24
: The former president of Malta , Marie-Louise Coleiro-Preca presents a ‘human rights defender’ award to the El Hiblu 3, who await trial for their role in the alleged hijack of an oil tanker to prevent the forced return of over 100 people to Libya five years ago, on behalf of the Coalition to Defend the El Hiblu 3.
Source: Malta Today
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Malta
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Hundreds slam racism in Limassol protest (photos, video)
13 April 24
: In Limassol, Cyprus , riot police are deployed as hundreds of people protest the death of Bangladeshi national Anis Rahman, who jumped from the fifth floor of the apartment he shared with 11 other Bangladeshi nationals during a police raid apparently conducted without a search warrant.
Source: Cyprus Mail
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Cyprus
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France reacts to the deportation of Kurdish activist Serhat Gültekin
12 April 24
: The French government sparks protests and demonstrations by deporting Kurdish activist Serhat Gültekin, reportedly handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded, to Turkey, despite his serious medical condition and without waiting for the courts to rule on the legality of his removal. The third Kurdish activist to be deported to Turkey in three weeks, he is immediately imprisoned on arrival in Turkey.
Source: Medya News
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Far-right ‘NatCons’ fundraiser officially cancelled by venue following protests
12 April 24
: Prime minister Sunak is urged to stop former home secretary Braverman from speaking at the far-right NatCon conference in Brussels, Belgium , as Edificio, the company that owns the venue booked for it, cancels the booking following pressure from the Belgian Anti-Fascist Coordination, the Human Rights League and the Brussels mayor.
Source: Brussels Times
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Belgium
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Germany detains Gaza surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah and ‘refuses him entry’
12 April 24
: The three-day Palestine Congress in Berlin, German y is banned two hours after it begins. British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah is refused entry at the airport and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is banned from entering the country or engaging with the conference via Zoom. Middle East Eye, 12 April 2024, New Arab , 12 April 2024, Deutsche Welle , 14 April 20
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Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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ERRC Takes Legal Action for Romani Children Forced to Walk 7km to School in Tiszavasvári, Hungary – European Roma Rights Centre
11 April 24
: The European Roma Rights Centre and the National Association of Disadvantaged Families launch a legal action against a local municipality and other Hungarian institutions for failure to provide equal access to education and safety for Romani children who, since the bus service was stopped, must walk seven kilometres to reach their local school in Tiszavarsvári.
Source: European Roma Rights Centre
Category: EDUCATION
Country: Hungary
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PSNI reported tens of thousands of migrant victims and witnesses of crime to immigration authorities
11 April 24
: Investigative news website The Detail reveals that between October 2018 and March 2023, the Northern Ireland police service reported an estimated 29 victims and witnesses of crime each day to the Home Office, including those subjected to racist attacks and domestic abuse.
Source: Belfast Telegraph
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: Ireland
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Human Rights groups file UN complaint over French police racial profiling
11 April 24
: Human rights organisations in France lodge a complaint with UN CERD about abusive police identity checks targeting those ‘perceived as black or Arab’, constituting ‘systemic racial discrimination’.
Source: Le Monde
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: France
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Police spammed with complaints by neo-Nazis under new Scottish hate crime law
11 April 24
: Neo-Nazis and far-right agitators are making vexatious complaints en masse re Scotland’s new hate crime law so as to overwhelm police systems, it is revealed. According to Police Scotland only 3.8% of complaints were authentic and logged as hate crimes – almost half of 7,152 reports being made on 1 April.
Source: Guardian
Category: ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Country: UK, Scotland
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Far-right extremist admits hosting terror website
11 April 24
At Sheffield Crown Court a far-right extremist who ran a website used by a ‘number of like-minded convicted international terrorists’ pleads guilty to four terrorism charges including the distribution of a terrorist publication.
Source: BBC News
Category: ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Country: UK
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‘Too much to bear’: Black actors condemn racial abuse of Romeo & Juliet star
10 April 24
Over 800 predominantly Black female and non-binary actors sign an open letter in solidarity with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, targeted with online racial abuse after the announcement of her casting in a new production of Romeo & Juliet.
Source: Guardian
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: UK
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Number of asylum seekers left homeless after Home Office eviction soars
10 April 24
The Refugee Council reports an increase of 239% in homelessness among newly recognised refugees, to 12,630 households in the 2 years to September 2023, caused by a Home Office transition system ‘dysfunctional by design and discriminatory in delivery’.
Source: Refugee Council
Category: HOUSING | POVERTY | WELFARE
Country: UK
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