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🚨#IRR50 year wrap up🎁

And what a year it's been! We've produced articles on policing in schools, highlighted the treatment of asylum seekers, released reports on citizenship-stripping and police racism, PLUS all our #IRR50 activities

Here's a rundown of our major highlights🧵
In 2022, we celebrated 50 years since the IRR underwent its radical transformation: from an establishment body funded by large multinational corporations into an explicitly anti-racist thinktank oriented towards those making struggle against state racism. irr.org.uk/article/irr50/
We are living in difficult times. At the start of the year, we published a 5-part series by IRR Vice-Chair @FrancesWebber5 that mapped out the multiple threats and attacks on human rights.

Read through #ImpunityEntrenched via this thread of threads👇
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#ImpunityEntrenched
🧵THREAD OF THREADS 🧵

This week, we published a 5-part series by @FrancesWebber5 examining the legislative & policy changes threatening human rights.

Follow the link to read each part & find a thread 🧵summary of each edition below👇
irr.org.uk/article/impuni…
On Monday, we started #ImpunityEntrenched with an analysis of borders and immigration policy, with a focus on the destructive Nationality & Borders Bill.
Tuesday's #ImpunityEntrenched looked at policing and the range of punitive and discriminatory measures contained in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill.
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⚖️Ministerial Impunity & the rule of law

It’s not just specific bills that should worry us. This THREAD summarises what underlies them: attempts to evade scrutiny and accountability, while curbing the judiciary

Read the full piece⬇️
irr.org.uk/article/impuni…
Part 3 looks at how government ministers are undermining the rule of law by:

⚖ Breaching UK & International law
🧑‍⚖️ Political interference in the judiciary
🕵️‍♂️ Treating journalists like spies
🔒 Constraints on public bodies
🗳 Voter suppression

irr.org.uk/article/impuni…
In October, the Supreme Court ruled that the Home Office had acted unlawfully in imposing a prohibition on unpaid work on a migrant after a Tribunal judge had granted him bail to allow him to continue his voluntary work. @BIDdetention
biduk.org/articles/bid-w…
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#ImpunityEntrenched Pt 2
🚔Police impunity: in & beyond the pandemic

As revelations of police racism, misogyny & brutality mounted in 2021, the government gave police more powers & protections.

This THREAD details key developments. Get the full picture👇
irr.org.uk/article/polici…
The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill is an enormous and wide-ranging piece of legislation with 179 clauses and 20 schedules.

Its sheer size and range impede proper scrutiny, as the House of Lords Constitution Committee (@HLConstitution) pointed out
committees.parliament.uk/publications/7…
As IRR Director Liz Fekete argues, the Bill not only privileges the police’s wellbeing & protection through the Police Covenant, but also establishes them as a commanding authority to which other public bodies are accountable. irr.org.uk/article/polici…
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OUT NOW: #ImpunityEntrenched Part 1
🛂 POLICING THE BORDERS

Is this the end of asylum?

The below THREAD 🧵 provides a summary of border and immigration legislation and policy introduced last year.

For the full analysis, read here ⬇️
irr.org.uk/article/polici…
The hostile reception for asylum seekers is extended to refugees in the Nationality & Borders Bill, which expands policies of exclusion, criminalisation and deportation. This thread will critique the bill and review other important developments from 2021
irr.org.uk/article/polici…
The N&B Bill puts into legislation Patel’s New Plan for Immigration.

The public consultation on it received over 8,500 responses, 75% opposing.

Against normal practice, the government didn't publish these, and published the Bill before responding. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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