News & events
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.
The government's policy of imprisoning terror suspects without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence may now be over. Andy Worthington, The Guardian
Read the Institute for Policy Research & Development's submission and supplementary memorandum to the Preventing Violent Extremism inquiry held by the Communities and Local Government Parliamentary Committee.
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’.
The latest evidence that British government officials have been complicit in the torture of British citizens during the so-called "war on terror" has come from the most compelling of sources: the torturers themselves. Ian Cobain, The Guardian
Reports and speeches from a public meeting in Parliament on the purpose and continuing effects of the Terrorism Act 2000 in proscribing 'terrorist organisations'.
CAMPACC's response to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill 2009 containing the repeal of the restrictions on protest around Parliament under s132-138 SOCPA. The submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights gives details of concerns about alternative measures to be put in place.
6.30pm Wednesday 28 October 2009, Committee Room 12, House of Commons, Westminster, SW1 (St Stephens entrance)
Hosted by Siobhain McDonagh MP & Joan Ryan MP
Speakers include: Matt Foot, solicitor; Gareth Peirce, human rights lawyer, Jan Jananayagam, spokesperson for “Tamils Against Genocide”; Les Levidow, CAMPACC; Hyrbyair Marri, Baloch leader; Kazim Aqpak, Kurdish Federation UK
Tuesday 27th October 2009
Lord Ahmed and The Cordoba Foundation invite you to a discussion on Preventing Violent Extremism (PREVENT) to address recent revelations of spying on the Muslim community and the ramifications on present and future security and community relations.