Events
Seminar: The Construction of 'Suspect' Communities in Britain 1974-2007: comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities, London Metropolitan University, 5 March 2010. See more
Theatre: Waiting by Victoria Brittain, South Bank, 12-13 March 2010. After each performance, Victoria Brittain chairs a debate discussing the issues raised. See more
Articles & resources
Urge your MP to sign the Secret Evidence EDM
The NUJ’s Ethics Council has produced a set of guidelines to help journalists grappling with the problems of reporting police raids on ‘terrorist suspects’.
See details of two seminars on The Basque Country and Northern Ireland: Self-Determination, Proscription and Human Rights in the EU organised by CAMPACC, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Statewatch, Basque Solidarity Campaign
Pakistani students turned into terror suspects CAMPACC looks behind the recent high-profile arrests. Labour Briefing, May 2009
Opposing the UK 'Terrorist' List: Persistence as Resistance CAMPACC paper, February 2009 (pdf file)
Read papers and reports from a series of seminars on "Terrorist lists", proscription, designation and human rights.
UNJUST POWERS in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, CAMPACC leaflet, Dec 2008 (pdf file)
Order Campacc's 'We are all terror suspects' t-shirt"Our tragedy and pain is part of the series of pains that is felt by people in cases like ours when laws are destroyed and flames ignited by politicians whose only desire is the achievement of their tyrannical subjugation and the spreading and domination of their lowly thoughts engulfs any notion of human rights."
Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers
Do anti-terror laws make us safer? Whom do they protect?
- define terrorism more broadly, thus blurring any distinction between anti-government protest and organized violence against civilians;
- label numerous organisations as ‘terrorist', as a basis for placing entire communities under suspicion of associating with ‘terrorism';
- use ‘intelligence' obtained by torturing detainees abroad;
- and detain and prosecute people for suspected activities which could just as well be handled under other laws. Read more
What's new
This seminar will report on the first comparative research project examining the impact of counter-terrorism on Irish communities and Muslim communities in Britain. This ESRC-funded collaborative research involves academics based at London Metropolitan University and City University, London, with a long track-record of researching immigration, social cohesion, Islam, and the media.
Five women speak and sing their stories in their own words, stories of the unseen fallout of the war on terror. These are stories of real women from cultures as varied as Senegal, Jordan, Palestine and the English Midlands. They mostly came to the UK as refugees, or married refugees, but after 9/11 the world they loved here vanished overnight. One after another they were engulfed by private terror.
“the Court’s judgment vindicates the primacy of Parliament, as opposed to the Executive, in determining in what circumstances fundamental rights may legitimately be restricted”
Government officials have labelled environmental campaigners extremists and listed them alongside dissident Irish republican groups and terrorists inspired by al-Qaida in internal documents seen by the Guardian. The Guardian.
Andy Worthington argues in the Guardian that instead of tinkering at the edges of the control order regime, questions should be raised about its fundamental legality.
In Dublin on the 16th January 2010, the Peoples' Tribunal gave its preliminary findings on the war in Sri Lanka and its aftermath.
The ability of UK police to use "arbitrary" counter-terror stop and search powers against peace protesters and photographers lay in tatters today after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights. The Guardian.