Full Coverage: Race politics

26.10.2005 The "mother of the civil rights movement" passed away in her Detroit home Monday evening at the age of 92.

26.10.2005 NEW YORK, Oct 25 (OneWorld) - Leading civil rights groups in the United States are urging legislators not to make any retrogressive changes in the law that protects minorities' right to vote and prohibits discriminatory practices in the electoral process.

19.10.2005 Last Sunday, October 16, the Women Organization of Sveti Nikole Municipality and its “Babylon” Project, organizes a football tournament, under the auspices of the European Campaign Against Racism in Sports. The tournament was sponsored by FARE (Footbal Against Racism in Europe) Network.

19.10.2005 Vo nedelata, 16 oktomvri, Organizacijata na Zenite na Sveti Nikole i proektot “Vavilon” koj raboti vo ramkite na organizacijata, organizirase turnir vo mal fudbal, vo ramkite na Evropskata kampanja protiv rasizmot vo sportot. Turnirot go sponzorirase FARE (Fudbalot protiv rasizmot vo Evropa).

17.10.2005 Faenza aderisce all'iniziativa a 40 anni dalla "Nostra Aetate", il documento conciliare sulle religioni non cristiane. "Vincere la paura per costruire la pace": ecco lo slogan scelto dai promotori in vista della prossima Giornata ecumenica del dialogo cristianoislamico. Il 28 ottobre, ultimo venerdì del mese di Ramadan, ricorre la IV Giornata del dialogo cristianoislamico. In tutta Italia si svolgeranno incontri tra esponenti delle due comunità di fede più numerose nel nostro paese. Obiettivo dell’iniziativa è favorire l’incontro, la conoscenza ed il dialogo tra cristiani e musulmani. L’iniziativa - vale la pena di ricordarlo - è nata dal basso, nel novembre 2001, a poche settimane dai tragici attentati terroristici dell’11 settembre, quando un drappello di credenti di svariate confessioni cristiane (cattolici, evangelici, ortodossi), insieme a responsabili di ordini missionari, islamologi, intellettuali e educatori, decise di lanciare un Appello ecumenico affinché quanto era purtroppo accaduto non mettesse in discussione i rapporti fra cristiani e musulmani.

15.10.2005 No country in Europe could be prouder of its multicultural experiment than Britain. But because Blair refuses to accept that the war in Iraq could have played a part in breeding home-grown suicide bombers, multiculturalism has become a whipping boy, argues A. Sivanandan.

13.10.2005 Slobodan Vuksanovic, Serbian Minister of Education and Sports, estimated today, answering the accusations that Serbia doesn’t protect the rights of national minorities, that Serbia takes good care of its minorities.

12.10.2005 The National Black Police Association is protesting against the Home Secretary’s decision to disband the committee of independent advisors.

06.10.2005 Should councils print all important documents in several languages, or is this encouraging separatism? Is it really offensive to call someone "coloured"? Should we put off that important meeting because it’s Yom Kippur, even though only one of the people attending is Jewish? The head of the Commission for Racial Equality makes another controversial speech.

29.09.2005 After the criticism of his disastrous handling the Katrina disaster, President George Bush promises a reconstruction programme of $200bn for areas destroyed by the hurricane. But the first and biggest beneficiaries will be businesses that specialise in profiting from disaster, and have already had lucrative contracts in Iraq. They will gentrify New Orleans at the expense of its poor, black citizens, says Mike Davis.

28.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Multibillion-dollar White House plans to aid recovery from Hurricane Katrina have spawned complaints by a broad array of civil rights, economic justice, and environmental groups even as congressional investigators look into possible corruption.

27.09.2005 Federal contractors involved in Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts have been exempted from requirements that ensure employment opportunities for women and minorities. "The exemption could hurt the very people most affected by Hurricane Katrina, effectively shutting them out from the opportunity to participate in rebuilding their own neighborhoods," civil rights advocates said.

22.09.2005 Britain is moving towards segregation, adding urgency to the need to drive forward the process of integration, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality warned today.

22.09.2005 The July terror attacks exposed a racial "nightmare" where some districts are becoming "fully-fledged ghettos - literal black holes" where people fear to go, says Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips. He is right to draw attention to the problem, says Karen Chouhan, but public debate on 'integration' must involve, not blame, Black communities.

22.09.2005 An official "commission on integration", involving all faith groups, is to be set up following the warning by racial equality chief Trevor Phillips that some parts of Britain are turning into "fully fledged ghettos".

21.09.2005 Former Commission for Racial Equality chief Lord Herman Ouseley has echoed concerns raised by the present chair, Trevor Phillips, about increased segregation within British society.

15.09.2005 A new education report has uncovered a culture of racism in schools which is holding black pupils back.

10.09.2005 Un nuovo rapporto di Amnesty International su Myanmar accusa che la giunta militare sta sottoponendo decine di migliaia di appartenenti alle minoranze etniche ai lavori forzati, alle percosse, alla confisca dei loro terreni e alla distruzione delle loro case. Basato su interviste con oltre un centinaio di migranti birmani in Thailandia, il rapporto di Amnesty International rivela un crescente sistema di violazioni dei diritti umani che contribuisce all’inadeguata alimentazione di almeno una persona su sei e alla malnutrizione cronica di un terzo dei bambini del paese (dati delle Nazioni Unite).

09.09.2005 Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath has unearthed the stark disparities of class and race that persist in 21st century America, says In These Times senior editor, Salim Muwakkil.

08.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 8 (OneWorld) - Hundreds of activists descended on the White House Thursday to protest what they called President George W. Bush's inaction in the year since his administration said that genocide was taking place in Sudan's western Darfur region.