📅Upcoming report launch of 'Doubt Dismissed: Race, Juries, and Wrongful Conviction'

The event will discuss the findings of APPEAL two-year long investigation into majority jury verdicts, racism, classism and wrongful conviction

As juries face increasing scrutiny, join us for our event, ' #DOUBTDISMISSED '! Launching a new research report & campaign, we explore Race, Class, Majority Verdicts, Jury Secrecy & Wrongful Conviction. See video & flyer below for more info, including speakers & sign up link! 1/

Come and hear more about Nisha and my research into the origins of majority verdicts in England and Wales ⬇️

🗓️May 8th, 6-8pm, City University Law School

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🎞️Following the launch of #Defiance , a new series on channel 4 documenting the British South-Asian anti-racist movement, we wanted to share some of our resources on the struggle.

📚Southall: The birth of a Black community irr.org.uk/product/southa…

IRR Newsletter out now!

📰New resource on the mainstreaming of hate

✍️Editorial
🆕 IRR Briefing on far Right
📅 Calendar of Racism & Resistance
🛍️ 50% off all stock

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Worried about the divisive impact the hard Right will play in the mayoral elections & at the next general election? ⤵️ theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

🧵⤵️ A new IRR briefing suggests ways we can push back against far-right ideas as they pass into the mainstream irr.org.uk/article/mainst…

In a piece for London Review of Books, IRR trustee Frances Webber addresses how racialised children & young people – migrant, refugee & British – are treated as fully responsible adults by police, prosecutors & courts, through the cases of Shamima Begum & Ibrahima Bah

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Refugee Action are right to describe asylum accommodation as ‘human warehouses’ & ‘far-right thug magnets’

📰Coming 🔜, a new IRR briefing, examining the far-right’s targeting of communities, from asylum accommodation to Drag Queen Story Hour & more.
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IRR NEWSLETTER IS OUT NOW!

Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back

✍️ Editorial
📅 Calendar of Racism & Resistance
🗣️ Liz Fekete on 'Defend the right to protest' panel
📚 Stock sale

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As a taster for my upcoming biography of the great black Welsh rugby pioneer Roy Francis, here's my new article uncovering the amazing life of his father Lionel, who went from Welsh miner to prominent black politician in America. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/share/BRJQ9BHZ…

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Remember to also check out our 50% all stock sale⤵️
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Border deaths & the criminalisation of people arriving on ‘small boats’

✍️ Editorial
🆕 Article
📅 Calendar of racism and resistance
🗣️ Panel talks with IRR Director Liz Fekete
🛍️ 50% off all IRR stock

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Tagging is a highly intrusive technology of control. In my research article in Race & Class, I drew on data from an 18-month ethnographic study, to highlight the sheer harms of tagging & curfews on people seeking asylum. More below.
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Reminder for Institute of Race Relations & Race & Class stock sale - 50% off everything! ⤵️📚📚📚

We are currently reducing our stock of IRR and Race & Class material down to 50%. Check out our shop to find books, pamphlets, reports, Race & Class journals and more ⤵️

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The persecution of migrants and the criminalisation of protest

✍️Editorial
🆕 IRR article by Liz Fekete
📅 Calendar of racism & resistance
🛍️ 50% SALE on all IRR & Race & Class stock

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The requirement for unanimous jury verdicts was abolished in 1967, allowing ‘majority’ verdicts.

Why? To prevent black and poc jurors from “diluting” juries and influencing verdicts.

Amazing research here by Nisha & Naima Sakande.

'We come across black mothers witnessing their children suffer and die in the face of callous mockery, before thanking God for sending death and saving their young 'from the greater bitterness of life'' -My review of Our History Has Always Been Contraband
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📢Latest IRR Newsletter out now!

This week we draws attention to important recent legal interventions, which reveal persistence and courage in challenging times

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Asylum Aid Liberty Friends, Families & Travellers SCCJR @alarmphone

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Ever wondered where the phrase ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ originated?

Find out in a new paper published in Race & Class by Dr Natasha Carver: The Princess, the Witch and the Fairy Godmother: Colonial Legacies in ‘FGM’
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#HerVoiceMatters #EndFGM VAWG Research Network