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USA: In Defeat for Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda, Supreme Court Rejects ’Immoral’ Anti-Asylum Policy
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Australia: Are women escaping family violence overseas considered refugees?
16 January 2019, by siawi3Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s story has travelled around the world this week, highlighting Saudi Arabia’s repressive treatment of women and that not only those who seek asylum by sea face perilous journeys to safety.
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UK/Global: The #REFUGEETOO Campaign
2 February 2019, by siawi3Rahaf al-Qunun’s brave fight for protection from persecution ended happily with the Saudi teen’s arrival in Canada. Rahaf’s plight is a reality for countless ex-Muslims, atheists, women and LGBT fleeing Sharia or “honour”-related violence condoned by Islamic states and movements. In more than ten countries, being ex-Muslim, atheist, or LGBT are even punishable by death. In these countries, being a free woman is a crime. Despite these harsh realities, countless asylum seekers in Britain and the west as well as refugee claimants in places like Turkey continue to be detained, refused protection despite evidence of persecution, mistreated and deported.
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Serbia: Solidarity is Our Strength - Notes from visiting refugees in Belgrade’s parks
2 November 2016, by siawi3Approximately twenty activists participated from many different countries – Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, Macedonia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine, Spain… on two occasions, visited refugees in Belgrade parks: this is what they saw and what they think. A report from the ground...
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Réfugiés syriens : quand le Maghreb devient « syrophobe »
13 mai 2014, par siawi3Accueillis dans un premier temps à bras ouverts, les réfugiés fuyant la guerre civile en Syrie ne sont plus en odeur de sainteté au Maghreb. Au point que leur flux s’est tari sous la pression des autorités de certains pays.
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History: the British Communist Party’s mixed record on racism
24 July 2019, by siawi3Evan Smith’s book deals with the Communist Party of Great Britain and anti-racism from 1945 to the early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. Aiming for a better understanding of the impact the Communist Party had on anti-racist politics, he has made a close reading of the party’s publications, its internal documents and the secondary literature. The result is a carefully written study of the party’s policy on race. Starting with the Communist Party at the height of its influence, with around 50,000 members and two MPs, he covers four decades to the early 1980s when, wracked by internal arguments, the party split and lost its political significance.
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Belgique : LE PROCÈS DE LA SOLIDARITÉ
11 décembre 2018, par siawi3La solidarité deviendra-t-elle un délit passible d’emprisonnement ? Venir en aide à des hommes et des femmes en détresse, en lieu et place d’un Etat qui rafle et réprime, sera-t-il désormais punissable ? Deviendra-t-on délinquant-e en puissance pour avoir contesté des politiques injustes, antisociales, discriminatoires ? Jugement attendu le 12 décembre 2018.
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UK: Racist assault on a child in the ‘walk-on-by society’
4 December 2018, by siawi3What is surprising is not that such attacks take place but that, given the political rhetoric about migration and the character of government policy, they are relatively infrequent.
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South Asia: Why religious fundamentalism and not immigration is the real problem on the Assam-Bangladesh border}
31 May 2016, by siawi3Extremist Islamic ideology has compounded the problems. It has found home along the border of Assam and its neighbouring states. Much of the recent surge in Islamist violence in Bangladesh has occurred in the North-West, signalling that the same forces continue to make that part of the country a hotbed of Islamism.
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Militarization of Europe, Racism & Xenophobia Towards Refugees
3 November 2016, by siawi3WIB activists from Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Italy, Russia, Serbia, and Spain exchange their experience on the militarisation of Europe..
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