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- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
- 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India
- Black Church Manifesto Questionnaire
- Brett Bailey: Exhibit B
- Briefing Paper: Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life
- Civil Rights Leader Ratna Lachman dies
- ELLE Magazine: Young, Gifted, and Black
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- Gary Younge Book Sale
- George Osborne's budget increases racial disadvantage
- Goldsmiths Students' Union External Trustee
- International Commissioners condemn the appalling murder of Tyre Nichols
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
- Pathway to Success 2022
- Please donate £10 or more
- Rashan Charles had no Illegal Drugs
- Serena Williams: Black women should demand equal pay
- Thank you for your donation
- The Colour of Power 2021
- The Power of Poetry
- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
- Volunteering roles at Community Alliance Lewisham (CAL)
Hundreds of migrants drown: Does anyone care!
In what could be the largest single death toll of migrants crossing the dangerous seas from Africa to Europe has largely gone unreported.
That a large number of African migrants have drowned in one episode as their over filled boat capsized is not disputed. Local agencies cannot confirm whether that number is 100 or 400. Those survivors from that mass tragedy talk about 100’s dying at sea.
But if you were to look at the front pages over the last few days this humanitarian tragedy of catastrophic proportions is nowhere to be seen. Only in the inside pages can you find any news of African’s dying at sea in their bid to flee war and poverty.
Europe’s response to this global refugee problem, with its epicentre in the Middle East and North Africa, has been, ‘make sure they don’t arrive here. Anywhere but here’.
Last week the Pope tried to shame rich countries such as the UK by literally going to a refugee camp in Greece and taking 12 refugees back to the papal city.
Africa and African’s weep at the loss of life and the conditions which many are forced to escape from, but Europe seems cold and inhuman to this plight.
Will they ever care?
Simon Woolley