Sophie Bell reports on the fight back after months of anti-refugee protests. Sophie Bell / Real Media* Hundreds of people joined a Unity Rally in Falkirk on 7 December, marking the largest show of solidarity yet in a town that has spent months at the centre of Scotland’s […]
Human Rights
Influence of the media on perceptions of migrants
The media is responsible for the promotion of significant attitudes and feelings like acceptance, tolerance and interest in other cultures. But the media is also responsible for promoting discrimination, racism, lack of solidarity, fear, rejection, and xenophobic attitudes.
Violence against women, a weapon for racist propaganda
According to a recent ‘shock poll’, more than half of London’s women don’t feel safe on the streets, and a similar number believe that the city has become less safe in the last five years. Despite the headline’s phrasing, these findings will not come as a surprise to London women. […]
From surviving the war to facing racism and xenophobia
Their stories merge within a context of a rising xenophobia in the Western world. Theay are seven refugees who left their countries to search of safety in the United Kingdom. They survived the horrors of war and gender violence, but now face another threat: racism and xenophobia.
When multiculturalism becomes a political weapon
There is no problem with multiculturalism as such, it has existed since ancient times even though the term arose only recently. It is a necessary, and unavoidable fact of life. It has its own dynamic, and its own difficulties resulting from the interaction of different cultures.
















