Refugee
EXCLUSIVE - ‘No room at inn’ as pregnant refugee sleeps rough at Britain’s border
12 December 2017Bassam and her husband have travelled from war in Kurdistan seeking safety in Britain. She is six months pregnant. But Tory Britain has shut the door on them.
Human Flow brings out the human stories behind the refugee crisis
12 December 2017Behind the numbers which dominate the refugee crisis lie millions of untold stories. Artist Ai Weiwei’s film Human Flow brings them out, writes Sally Kincaid
Scrap the migrant detention system
05 December 2017The system of locking up migrants in detention centres must come to an end, doctors have warned
Let Calais migrants into Britain, say anti-racists
28 November 2017Campaigners taking aid to refugees say the only solution is to open the border, reports Dave Sewell
Anti-racists take refugee solidarity onto the streets
21 November 2017Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) supporters plan days of action this Saturday for the SUTR Calais Winter Appeal
West to blame for Libyan slave auctions
21 November 2017The slave auctions of the 21st century take place in Libya—but the biggest culprits are in the British, US and French governments and European Union
Court backs up the Tories and locks refugee children out of Britain
07 November 2017The high court delivered a blow to refugees and migrants last week. It rejected a challenge to the Home Office’s closure of a scheme for unaccompanied young refugees.
Eritreans in London protest over state crackdown
07 November 2017Over 300 Eritreans protested outside Downing Street in London calling for an end to repression in Eritrea, religious freedom and an end to the regime of the current president, Isaias Afwerki.
Climate change displaces millions and is set to get worse, says new report
02 November 2017Climate change is already driving millions of people from their homes in poorer countries around the world.
Activists go to France in winter appeal for refugees
31 October 2017Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) activists went to volunteer with refugees in northern France last week.
Border controls mean slavery and death
24 October 2017Tuesday marked one year since the demolition of the “jungle” refugee camp by cops in Calais.And one year on the refugee crisis is as bad as ever.
Britain’s border shame one year after Calais ‘jungle’ demolished
14 October 2017The humanitarian crisis caused by Britain’s border in France has been pushed out of sight—but it’s as bad as it’s ever been. Refugees trapped at Grande-Synthe near Dunkirk spoke to Dave Sewell about their lives. Pictures by Guy Smallman
Another death in detention centre - as judge rules hundreds have been wrongly detained
10 October 2017A Jamaican man detained at Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire died in hospital on Tuesday of last week.
Stand Up To Racism conference is a key event to help take on the racist right
03 October 2017Participants range from shadow ministers to trade unionists, campaigners, students and grassroots anti-racist activists. Dave Sewell looks at some of the reasons people will be there
Anti-racism round up
26 September 2017An imam was stabbed in the neck outside a mosque in Greater Manchester last Sunday. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime and have arrested two men.
As refugee crisis grows in Europe, we say - let them in
26 September 2017The refugee crisis has not gone away—if anything it is getting worse.
Thousands of protesters in Rome defend refugees after police attacks
29 August 2017Thousands of people marched through Rome last Saturday in protest at police violence against refugees.
European Union crackdown drives refugees to Spain on new dangerous sea route
15 August 2017The number of refugees crossing the sea to Spain has tripled in a year. And in other international news Israeli army officers have talked up the possibility of a new war on Palestinians
Nazi boat is blocked in Mediterranean ports, but refugees face other obstacles
08 August 2017A boat hired by far right activists to stop NGOs from rescuing refugees has been turned away from a series of Mediterranean ports.
Tory Brexit plan will make migrants more vulnerable
01 August 2017The free movement of people between Britain and the European Union (EU) is set to end with Brexit in March 2019, the Tories have decided.
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