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Leeds No Borders in Solidarity with Harmondsworth Detainees

08-12-2006 16:58 | Refugee Week 2006 | Culture | Migration | Social Struggles | World

Friday 1st December. Following revelations concerning the atrocities perpetuated in the Harmondsworth Removal Centre, and subsequent riots, Leeds No Borders gathered outside of the Waterside Reporting Centre to express solidarity with asylum seekers and raise awareness of Watersides status as the shame of Leeds.

John Reid on AI concerns over 'failed' refugees and benefits.

07-12-2006 12:32 | Health | Migration | Social Struggles | London | World

Home Sec John Reid replies to an Amnesty Intl camapign letter regarding the removal of benefits from so-called failed asylum seekers.

Harmondworth Solidarity Demo at Kalyx

02-12-2006 06:45 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | Migration | London | World

Inside and Outside the Camp: Resistance Continues
This is a statement by London No Borders on the Uprising at Harmondsworth IRC and the protests at UK Detention Centres and the solidarity action we did outside Kalyx on Friday Night

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OutRage!- gay refugees abused at UK detention centre.

01-12-2006 16:42 | Gender | Migration | Repression | London | World

OutRage! reveals the abuse of lgbt people held in Harmondsworth. (and demands all such places should be closed.)

Migration Summit in Tripoli

25-11-2006 01:16 | Globalisation | Migration | Social Struggles | World

50 EU and African States met for a two day conference on migration controls and development in Tripoli from 22 to 23 November 2006

Janitors' Victory in Houston - Thank You!

23-11-2006 00:22 | Globalisation | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

Compas!!!

After 4 weeks of janitors in Houston, USA, striking and a heavy escalation last week (88 arrested in civil disobediences, local, national and international coordinated actions and a heavy corporate campaign against Chevron and Hines) janitors won a big victory!

Detention centre is a 'gitmo' military-style prison

22-11-2006 04:31 | Anti-militarism | Migration | Repression | World

Prime Sinister John Howards military style prison detention centre on Christmas Island off the Western Australia coast would be a great place to house the war criminals themselves?

Jackie B. belongs in South Wales

17-11-2006 13:31 | Gender | Migration | Social Struggles | World

Jackie B. (not real name) and her child M
This young woman is a torture and rape victim, who was accepted by the Immigration Appellate Authority as a 'believable witness'. However her appeal was refused in 2005 on the grounds that even though she was suspected of being an LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) member and a torture and rape victim, she would not be in danger of persecution if she was returned to another part of Uganda, such as Kampala.

Australias "Guantanamo" on remote Xmas Island

17-11-2006 05:31 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Migration | World

A new maximum security immigration detention complex under construction on Christmas Island, has been dubbed "Australia's Guantanamo Bay". Australia's new remote offshore detention centre will have cameras in bedrooms, electric fences and electronically controlled doors - to force centre-wide lock-downs. The level of security and surveillance, greater than at any existing detention centre, makes parts of the complex comparable to a maximum security prison.

The 1200 bed centre, is said to cost more than $300million...

Outrage as Home Office deport 7yr old despite knowing her mother was in the UK

08-11-2006 17:10 | Anti-racism | Migration | World

Refugee support groups today expressed outrage at the Home Office forcibly returning a seven year old girl to Kenya despite being repeatedly informed by an MP, officers from Strathclyde Police and lawyers, that her mother was living in the UK.

Viva La Chance!

07-11-2006 12:24 | French CPE uprising 2006 | Migration | World

The solution to the problem cannot be curfews and tear gas.. Profit and power are set above social peace. Who is really responsible when the villa surrounded by barbed wire is charred one morning?

CALL OUT ON THE 4TH OF NOVEMBER: STOP FASCISM IN RUSSIA!!!

03-11-2006 14:54 | Anti-racism | Migration | South Coast | World

fascist pogroms and masacra could happen tomorrow in Russian cities, we need international solidarity!!!!

Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

02-11-2006 16:17 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | Sheffield | World

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston

02-11-2006 14:01 | Anti-racism | Migration | Workers' Movements | World

Houston USA: Justice for Janitors campaign needs your active support NOW.

Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston, the 4th most important city in the US - and Bush territory.

International Action Day "Free Erdogan"

26-10-2006 11:11 | Migration | Repression | London | World

Switzerland wants to send political refugees back to turkey, where they will face torture and death. We want to stop this and ask for international help.

Human trafficking and the terms of engagement.

19-10-2006 10:43 | Analysis | Culture | Migration | World

This article suggests a cross-cultural consideration is needed when trying to devise policy concerning the trafficking of humans.

Five years since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy: the official cover-up continues

19-10-2006 08:02 | Analysis | Migration | Repression | World

Only through the development of a new political movement of the working class, completely independent of the establishment parties and organizations and prepared to challenge the very foundations of the present social and economic order, will the truth about the tragedy of SIEV X emerge and those responsible be held to account.

Ismet Hyseni - Belongs to Glasgow

19-10-2006 05:18 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

Ismet and the Hyseni clan were amongst the first asylum seekers to come to Glasgow in 1999. Why, after 7 years, is Ismet still waiting for the right to settle permanently in UK? Why was he taken into detention without justification and in a dawn raid? Why is his future still uncertain? Why is he faced with the worry of being forcibly removed from UK? Ismet has a dream - to be a maths teacher here in UK. Please help him stay in UK so he can fulfill his dream - but importantly, because such a dream is also UK's gain economically and socially.

Transatlantic passenger data deal a capitulation to US demands

12-10-2006 08:03 | Migration | Repression | Workers' Movements | London | World

Speaking today at the European Parliament in Brussels, German GUE/NGL MEP Sylvia Yvonne Kaufmann attacked the recent EU-US passenger data accord and called for greater protection for passengers' privacy.

October 7th in Moscow

08-10-2006 21:11 | Transnational Day of Action Against Migration Controls | Anti-racism | Migration | World

On the 7th of October we did the action against migration control in Moscow. We started on the one of the biggest Moscow streets – Garden ring – and directed our steps towards the Federal migration service that is a part of Ministery of Internal Affairs and in charge of the migration politics in Russia.

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