RESIDENTS AGAINST RACISM - Stand up to State Racism!
About Us
Residents Against Racism has been campaigning since 1998, with a particular focus on state racism in Ireland. We are not connected to any political party and do not receive any public funding.
RAR is a long-standing critic of the politicisation of the Irish asylum process. We argue that it is fundamentally a human rights issue and should be given over to an independent body operating free from political interference.
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Briefs and News Watch
- 65 suspected human trafficking cases investigated - Irish Times - 29/6/09
- 'Sad day' as families fly from NI - BBC News - 26/6/09
- An easy target for the hate mobs - Irish Times - 19/6/09
- "PSNI can't deal with hate crime" - Belfast Telegraph - 18/6/09
- Trafficking crackdown 'not protecting victims' - Sunday Business Post - 10/6/09
- Complaints over leaflet ban in asylum centres - Irish Times - 5/6/09
- Nigerians claim bribes to accept deportees - Sunday Times - 31/5/09
- "Asylum seekers in this country are in the hands of a system that denies them the most basic dignity" - Harry Browne, Sunday Times Opinion - 31/5/09
- Changes in migrant workers system criticised - Irish Times - 28/5/09
- New work permit fee angers migrants - Irish Independent - 28/5/09
- Don't force us into the shadows": migrants protest work permit changes. MCRI request letters/calls of support - 27/5/09
- RAR calls for removal of lorry displaying anti-immigrant slogan beside motorway - Evening Herald - 22/5/09
- RTE's Prime Time on rising levels of racism and government plans to tighten work permit rules - 20/5/09
- Digital stories: Living in Direct Provision - FOMACS film screening at the Irish Film Institute - 19/5/09
- 'Honest debate on FGM vital but hysterical claims don't help' - Amnesty's Colm O'Gorman, Irish Independent - 21/4/09
- Mother speaks out about realities of FGM in Nigeria and her daughter's enforced mutilation - Irish Times - 14/4/09
- Nigerians protest ambassador's FGM denials - RAR on Indymedia - 9/4/09
- Diplomat's genital mutilation claims are rubbished - Irish Independent - 7/4/09
- Pamela's story - FGM and the Izevbekhai family's case - RTE One's 'Would You Believe' - 5/4/09
- Nigerian report contradicts FGM claim of diplomat - Irish Times - 2/4/09
Current Campaigns
Protest the latest mass deportation to Nigeria
Tuesday 30th June, 11am, GNIB, Burgh Quay
The Irish authorities, in league with their British counterparts, are preparing to stage another mass deportation to Nigeria - the third within two months and a clear sign of the ramping up of removals by the state.
There will be a public show of opposition to the deportation from 11 a.m. at the Garda National Immigration Bureau on Burgh Quay.
29/5/09 - Residents Against Racism protested a second mass deportation to Nigeria within a month - a move the group described as unprecedented.
Residents Against Racism spokesperson Rosanna Flynn says "Every time these deportations happen it means families being torn apart. Once again we are seeing a number of fathers of Irish citizen children under threat. These children need their fathers, yet the government seems to care more about maximising deportations than it does about families."
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27/5/09 - Press Release: Unprecedented Nigeria mass deportation feared
No deportations back to FGM danger
The Irish government is currently trying to deport women and girls who are under under threat of being maimed or killed by Female Genital Mutilation. » More
It is an issue put in the spotlight by the Izevbekhai family's case, currently before the courts.
UPDATE 29/5/09 - Case adjourned. RAR will gather to show support for the family at the next hearing, expected July. Join our email list or follow our Twitter feed for details of future actions.
Pamela Izevbekhai’s case has been all over the newspapers and TV, but the key issue has not changed: deportation to Nigeria would put Jemima and Naomi in grave danger from Female Genital Mutilation. Pamela’s profile and outspokenness against FGM would also leave her at serious risk. Whether it’s through a European ruling or through the Irish government, Residents Against Racism says that sense must prevail: the family must be allowed to stay.