30/04/2010   Protection for women workers in Algeria

Relief at last for the women victims of religious violence in Hassi Messaoud. Since March, single working women have suffered brutal attacks by gangs of hooded youths who broke into their homes and terrorized, assaulted, robbed and sometimes raped them. Now Algerian human rights associations are forming an umbrella authority to protect them. ‘Shocked by the violence and by the inertia of the forces of law and order we have decided to express to them our total solidarity,’ said Cherifa Bouatta of the ADPDF.

 28/04/2010   BNP vote not increased by immigration

Election NewsElection NewsNew findings published by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggest that areas that have higher levels of recent immigration than others are not more likely to vote for the BNP. In fact, the more immigration an area has experienced, the lower its support for the far right. Rather, the evidence points to political and socio-economic exclusion as drivers of BNP support.

 23/04/2010   Fourth week of Sahrawi hunger strike

Six detainees on hunger strike were among seven Sahrawi activists arrested on 8 October 2009 at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca when they returned from visiting the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The six – Ahmed Alansari, Brahim Dahane, Yahdih Ettarouzi, Rachid Sghir, Ali Salem Tamek, and Saleh Labihi, who joined the hunger strike last Monday – are all held at Salé Prison, near Rabat, Morocco, far from their homes in Western Sahara.
09/04/2010   Campaign to oppose xenophobia in election race

The Asylum Election Pledge is an initiative of the Refugee Council, Scottish Refugee Council and Liberty, and calls on parliamentary candidates in the 2010 General Election to reject racism and xenophobia, and to remember the importance of refugee protection in debates about immigration policy.

 01/04/2010   UK Supermarkets profiting from Israeli Settlements

High street supermarkets are profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestine by selling produce from Israeli settlements, says UK charity War on Want. Under international law, Israel’s West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements are illegal. By selling settlement produce, supermarkets are complicit in illegal activity and are profiting from Palestinian suffering. War on Want is campaigning to tell the CEOs of Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose and Asda to stop selling settlement produce in their stores.