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Media HateWatch UK

NCADC | 12.02.2003 13:03

Diversity Online has started a new initiative following the abusive campaigns against asylum seekers in the national media.

Media HateWatch UK is a part of Diversity Online that will put scare stories about asylum seekers Online as they happen as part of a rapid response programme.

Every day the nationals are scanned and hate items about asylum seekers identified.
At the moments we are concentrating on the tabloids because that is where some of the worst examples are occurring.

We put on line the headline, intro and any parts which are particularly abusive. We also analyse the story and synopsize the remainder of it. The best way of seeing what we do is to go to the website:  http://www.diversity-online.org and click on Latest for the last six stories. The full list can be found by registering: it is free but you have to wait a day or so for us to send you a username and password.

We would welcome details of scare and hate stories from the national media, because at the moment we do not see everything. However, we are only interested in current examples from that days media.

We also welcome suggestions for improving the service. At the moment we are sticking to asylum seekers for this service, but as other ethnic minority stories become abusive we might expand our coverage.

We want the site to become a repository for hate stories so people who want evidence to track how coverage has developed will have a useful resource.

Enquiries/further information:
 diversity-online@gn.apc.org

Diversity Online
 http://www.diversity-online.org/

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Other items of interest

Refugee Council sets out its five point plan to end asylum gridlock
Says acting Chief Executive, Margaret Lally: 'Talk of crisis and meltdown is politically inspired hyperbole and is failing to address the real problems causing a crippling lack of confidence in the system.
'What the public wants to know - and has a right to know - is what the real problems in the asylum system are and how the Government intends to sort out them out....Our five point plan is the first serious set of proposals in recent weeks putting forward much-needed, cost effective and achievable reforms.'

Find out more about the Refugee Councils five point plan,
 http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/jan2003/relea101.htm

Government Plans 'safe havens' to cut asylum numbers, according to reports. Responding to reports, acting Chief Executive Margaret Lally said: 'This document seems to be based on little more than keeping refugees out of Europe. It fails to acknowledge or address the fact that the responsibility for fulfilling our obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention already falls most heavily on the states in the very regions now being touted as 'safe havens''. Find out more,  http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/feb2003/relea103.htm
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