Full Coverage: Race politics

24.05.2000 European Union sanctions against Austria could be lifted within weeks if discussions launched by Portugal are successful, it emerged yesterday.

15.05.2000 A Chechen editor responsible for reviving an outlawed newspaper has been arrested by Russian security forces for "stirring up racial hatred".

15.05.2000 Recent events in Zimbabwe have thrown the thorny issue of African land reform into the spotlight. Newslink Africa correspondent N. David looks at land reform in South Africa - where 80 per cent of land is still in the hands of the white minority - and uncovers a minefield.

09.05.2000 Several members of the European Union are calling for the 15-nation body to reconsider its decision to freeze contacts with Austria following the inclusion of the far right Freedom Party in the Vienna government.

05.05.2000 A former South African special forces officer yesterday described killing hundreds of black guerrillas and tossing their corpses from an aircraft into the Atlantic ocean, shedding light on one of the worst horrors committed by the apartheid regime.

02.05.2000 Black Americans will soon be offered the chance to take a DNA test which may help them to track down roots in Africa - a scientific advance which could trigger a "back-to-Africa" movement not witnessed since the 1970s.

27.04.2000 Black teenagers in the United States are six times more likely to go to prison for their first offence than young whites, according to a report co-sponsored by the US justice department.

23.04.2000 Protestors against Brazil's official celebrations commemorating the arrival of Portuguese conquistadors were hit by a heavy-handed police clampdown over the weekend.

23.04.2000 Southern African leaders have given strong backing to Zimbabwe's controversial land shake-up which has seen escalating and sometimes deadly clashes between white farmers and black squatters.

19.04.2000 Zimbabwe celebrated 20 years of self rule yesterday without the usual pomp and fanfare and with only a tiny glimmer of hope for a solution to the country's violent land dispute.

14.04.2000 Veteran's of Zimbabwe's 1970s independence war have reacted with anger to a High Court ruling ordering police to remove them from land owned by white farmers.

12.04.2000 Aboriginal leaders are planning to step up campaigns against new plans by Australia's government to give police stronger powers to decide the fate of criminal suspects.

12.04.2000 Zimbabwe will be marking 20 years of independence from Britain later this month. But with a land struggle between independence veterans and white farmers entering its sixth week, the country is in no mood for celebrations.

03.04.2000 Amnesty International is calling on Zimbabwe's leaders to stick to cross-border rules on policing protests and restrain the perpetrators of the political violence unleashed on the streets of Harare last weekend.

26.03.2000 Rogue police officers in Austria are getting away with a litany of brutal and often racist abuses against people in their custody, say human rights campaigners.

24.03.2000 One school's response to the end of affirmative action in the US (In Motion Magazine).

22.03.2000 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, has declared her concern over the return of an extremist right-wing in Europe, and condemned recent attacks on immigrant Moroccans in southern Spain.

14.03.2000 The IRR's European Race Audit project monitors support for far-Right and populist anti-immigration parties.

10.03.2000 Foreign nationals in western Europe and other parts of the industrialised world face "disturbing levels of discrimination in access to employment", according to the International Labour Organisation.

08.03.2000 One in every four female inmates in Spain's prisons is a member of the country's Roma community - a proportion 15 times greater than the group's size nationally, according to a year-long European Union study.