UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. report has found that serious violations against children have increased in 2022 compared to previous years. The Secretary-General’s annual report U.N. on children in armed conflict, released last week, documents 27,180 verified grave violations. These include the killing, maiming, and abduction of children ...
Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP): Dutch King Willem-Alexander issued a historic royal apology Saturday for the Netherlands’ involvement in slavery, saying he felt “personally and intensely” affected. His speech before thousands of descendants of slaves from the South American nation of Suriname and the Caribbean islands of Aruba,...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The UN’s top expert on rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making “gender apartheid” an international crime, helping hold the Taliban accountable for the exclusion of women from education, progress and development. Shortly after ousting a foreign-backed government in August 2021, t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Mohamed Khairullah was mere minutes away from arriving at the White House for an Eid al-Fitr reception when he received a call. Khairullah, the longtime Muslim mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, was informed that despite being invited to the gathering hosted by President Joe Biden, he would not be allowed to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a report Tuesday covering nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans in 2022. It revealed a 23% decrease. Last year, the Muslim advocacy group received 5,156 complaints nationwide. “This is a 23 percent decrease in total complaints ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – An independent report into the Metropolitan Police (the Met) commissioned after Sarah Everard’s murder has concluded that Britain’s largest law-enforcement force is “broken” and should be abolished if it cannot change. The Met is “institutionally racist and misogynistic”, the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Greece’s use of Ottoman-era mosques for purposes other than Islamic worship is a violation of fundamental human rights, say experts. Evaluating the current status of historic mosques in Greece, Sabri Can Sannav from the History Department at Trakya University shared that the Mecidiye Mosque was converted into the By...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Mali’s ruling junta has said that it is expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the UN mission for Mali. The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month denounced the security situation in the country in a speech to a UN gathering, and accused the regime’s new […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of two Armenian foundations whose properties had been taken over by the Treasury, bringing a legal battle they had been waging for years to a close. The court said the refusal of the request for the return of the properties violated the right to […]
David Coulson, a Muslim man who was imprisoned in California, has been released after two decades behind bars. The 55-year-old was arrested for stealing $14 dollars while he was homeless and sentenced to life in prison. Experts say thousands of inmates like Coulson remain in California prisons, sentenced to life due to legislation passed in [...
