The Council on American-Islamic Relations welcomed a hate crime investigation into anti-Asian slurs spray-painted onto a San Leandro, California home last weekend. On Saturday, police responded to a report of vandalism at 9 p.m. “A racial epithet within an anti-Asian message” was scrawled on a realtor sign marketing the property for sale. On ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of Rohingya at refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar held large rallies on Sunday, calling on the international community to make arrangements for their safe return to Myanmar, along with being granted citizenship rights. Ignoring the rain, Rohingya refugees gathered in the ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the “brutal and arbitrary repression” of Uyghurs and Turkic people in China’s Xinjiang region, and called on Beijing to release those detained. In a resolution adopted by show of hands, EU lawmakers condemned “in the strongest possible terms the fact that the Uyghur community ...
Muna Saleh says besides her skills, qualifications and expertise, her “professionalism” is evaluated by one more factor — her hijab. For observant Canadian Muslim women, wearing hijab is a religious obligation and a personal religious decision. But many Muslim women in the country a are facing undue professional consequences for choosing to we...
On Wednesday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for concerted and quick action to combat a surge in global food insecurity. The number of severely food insecure people had doubled in two years from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million, he said during a U.N. meeting on global hunger. More than half a million people are […...
More than 160 million children are engaged in child labor globally, according to a new report released Wednesday. The International Labor Organization and U.N. children’s agency UNICEF warn in the report that without relief strategies, child labor could rise by 8.9 million by year end. The increase is driven by higher poverty and increased vul...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US city of Minneapolis and its police department have engaged in an illegal “pattern or practice of race discrimination,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The department launched the study just days after then-police officer Derek Chauvin killed Ge...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Mali’s public prosecutor has announced the launch of an investigation into a mass grave discovered near the camp formerly occupied by French forces in Gossi, north of Mali. On Wednesday April 27, the Malian army claimed to have discovered a mass grave near a military base left by the French army in […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have accused the UN refugee agency UNRWA of procrastinating the reconstruction of their homes destroyed during last year’s Israeli war. This came in a protest organized by Palestinian factions outside the UNRWA office in Gaza City. “I have the right to safe housing,” and &#...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A long battle of Palestinians with Syrian backgrounds has concluded, with those coming from the war-torn Middle Eastern nation winning protection rights under the UN Convention in a European country. Ghada al-Rayan, a Palestinian-Syrian human rights defender, told Anadolu Agency that the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerla...
