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Election of CARJ Trustees

CARJ AGM 3 November 2018 ELECTIONS of CARJ Trustees Yogi Sutton and Nikki Petch (as officers) have two more years in post Porsha was elected Treasurer but then resigned. Sue Smailes is stepping down as Secretary So there will be vacancies in the posts of Secretary and Treasurer Deacon Joseph...

CARJ AGM 3 November 2018 – Papers

CARJ AGM 3 November 2018 (11:00 – 4:00) St Thomas More Church 9 Henry Rd, London N4 2LH Link to meeting papers are below The CARJ Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 3 November 2018 at St Thomas More Church, 9 Henry Rd, London N4 2LH (11:00 –...

Migration and Asylum: Bishop supports call to confront Racism

The lead Catholic Bishop for Migration and Asylum has welcomed a call from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the World Council of Churches, for Christians to stand against the rising tide of xenophobia, racism and populist nationalism. The message was issued following a meeting in Rome, involving...

CARJ Briefing – Prohibiting Caste Discrimination in the UK

For some years, there has been a growing awareness of caste discrimination among diaspora communities in the UK. In the year 2000, a paper on ‘Caste in Britain’ was presented at an international conference in London organised by Voice of Dalit International (VODI). In 2004, a community organisation called Castewatch...

CARJ Liverpool Reports

CARJ Liverpool updates Instrumental music CARJ Liverpool is now offering instrumental music to St Clare’s RC Primary School Liverpool from the September semester and has now recruited a Music Teacher for the project. The training will encourage children in learning and performance. Drama Project CARJ Liverpool has successfully completed a...

CARJ Briefing – Defining Antisemitism

Recent discussions of antisemitism, mostly in and around the Labour Party, have included  a lengthy public discussion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition.  The IHRA currently has 31 members (including the UK, the USA, France, Germany etc.).  On 26 May 2016 the IHRA Plenary in Budapest adopted the...

Urban Network Meeting 18th July

The second CARJ Urban Network Meeting held on 18th  July and there was a lively discussion of the following topics: Interim Report of UN Rapporteur on Racism       Reflecting on the Windrush experience and related issues Integrated Communities Strategy: the Green Paper   Knife Crime  --  Courtyard and other approaches                                  APPG Inquiry into ‘Cohesion and...

Improving Education for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Young People

CARJ Traveller Support Network held a very productive workshop on Improving Education for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Young People on 20th June 2018 the notes are found here An action plan was also produced to take forward the recommendations on the day and can be found here

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

The negotiations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration concluded last Friday, 13 July, with a final text, which will be formally adopted at an Intergovernmental Conference in Morocco in December 2018. The final text of the Global Compact on Migration can be found here.