PANAMA CITY, Panama (MNTV) – Morocco has taken a significant step toward gender equality with sweeping reforms to its family code, known as the Moudawana, aimed at addressing persistent disparities in inheritance and property rights. Among the key revisions, the government has introduced a provision allowing parents to transfer ownership of pr...
TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) – Iran’s government has decided to completely abolish the “Guidance Patrols,” commonly known as the “morality police,” as part of amendments to the controversial “Chastity and Hijab” law. The law, which has been in effect since 1983, has long been a subject of debate and criticism both d...
TAIZ, Yemen (MNTV) – Qatar has launched a project to construct 86 homes for families affected by disasters in Taiz, Yemen, with a budget of $225,000. The initiative, enabled by Qatar Red Crescent Society, aims to encourage displaced families to return to their home village of Al-Afirah by providing safe, well-designed, and high-quality housing...
California voters have rejected Proposition 6. The ballot measure sought to amend the state’s constitution to ban forced prison labor. The measure was defeated with 53.8% voting against it in the November 5 election. Supporters argued forced labor in prisons is a continuation of America’s legacy of slavery, disproportionately affecting Black i...
ISTANBUL (AA) – British King Charles III faced protest by an Indigenous lawmaker in Australia, telling the monarch the southern Pacific nation was not his land. Clad in a fur cloak, Senator Lidia Thorpe raised her voice to make Charles listen to her statement after the monarch delivered his speech in the Australian parliament. Secret [&h...
Rights groups are condemning U.S. footwear and apparel company Skechers as it used the star power of martial arts actor Donnie Yen to open a new store in occupied East Turkestan, also called Xinjiang. It did that despite allegations that Uyghur Muslims in China’s far west are being used for forced labor. In a video […]
A Palestinian student in Sweden is being denied citizenship due to her pro-Palestine activism at Chalmers University of Technology. Following the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Isra Barham helped launch a campaign to support Palestinian rights. This included protests and a petition with nearly 150 signatures urging the university to cu...
Hendricks County, Indiana, has agreed to pay $300,000 to an Islamic educational organization following a lawsuit for violating the Fair Housing Act. The county unlawfully denied zoning approval twice for a project aimed at establishing an Islamic seminary, school, and residential area. Attorney Zachary Myers emphasized that discrimination base...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Ed Markey are urging the Biden administration to enhance civil rights protections against algorithmic bias. This is specifically in the use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies. In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, the senators highlighted that biase...
An elderly Rohingya refugee woman has died in an Indian detention center, highlighting the dire conditions faced by the community. Seventy-five-year-old Lalu Bibi passed away on Wednesday at Indian-administered Kashmir’s Hira Nagar sub-jail, where she had been held since March 2021. Activists report that she was the seventh Rohingya to die in ...
