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 ...
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) alongside student and social justice groups is calling for an investigation into the University of Georgia for alleged discriminatory practices against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students. A Title VI federal civil rights complaint has been filed with the US Department o...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order. Every high school, university and Islamic seminary around the country was told to remain shut until further noti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The University of Melbourne is being investigated for violating privacy laws by using surveillance to identify students participating in a sit-in protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to the local media. Twenty-one student protesters at the university were previously served with “general mi...
