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Keeping the Melting Pot Aboil
A slip of the tongue gets Tom McCarthy thinking – just how far removed are we from the fabled ‘land of a thousand welcomes?’ By Tom McCarthy Source: The Cork Independent “She’s lucky to be American. If she was Romanian, well… it wouldn’t do her any favours let’s...
‘At the end of the day it is one world’
Maureen Aku Disu is a mother, a nurse and a singer. Her song ‘Bloody Immigrant’ is gaining popularity and she recently featured as a guest on Derek Mooney’s radio programme on RTE. Ian Callagy caught up with the Nigerian-born woman and heard all about her efforts to...
A snap shot of the first four weeks of www.iReport.ie
Findings from the first 4 weeks include: 25% of the incidents recorded racism against people who are Black. Out of the 5 reports of racism against Muslim women, all 5 were targeted because of their veil. In one case a group of Muslim men wearing their prayer hats were...
Reports of racism flood in in 4 weeks since iReport.ie launch
MEDIA RELEASE 11th August 2013 iReport.ie, the new online Racist Incident Recording System, has logged 60 reports detailing racism in less than one month, says anti-racist organisation INAR. “This is a significantly higher rate than our previous recording system, and...
Time to end silence on the history of Roma suffering
By Michael Privot Source: PublicServiceEurope.com The Porrajmos or 'devouring' has not become part of a shared European memory of 20th century genocides – now is the time to end the years of silence and ignorance over Roma suffering August 2 is Roma Holocaust...
Anti-Traveller racism pervasive and deep-rooted
There is conclusive and unambiguous evidence that Irish Travellers continue to be subjected to discrimination – and now is the time for positive change to take place. By Martin Collins Article source: www.publicserviceeurope.com Irish Travellers are a small indigenous...