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 ...
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are crossing the Indian-Bangladeshi border for safe harbor on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. More than 1 million Rohingya are already taking shelter at the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar. There are about 40,000 Rohingya in India, with 20,000 registered with the U.N. refugee agency. Experts and ac...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye’s parliament speaker stressed Tuesday the necessity to alleviate the heavy migration burden on certain countries, including his own, as well as the importance of ensuring fair burden-sharing. “We can only achieve solidarity by accepting refugees to our countries duly and fairly in line with the rules of internatio...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina is expecting more than 5,000 people to participate in an annual peace march to honor the Srebrenica genocide victims. Thousands of people from all over the world come to the Bosnian town of Nezuk every year to participate in a three-day peace march. This year the march will […]
GENEVA (AA) – UN human rights experts on Monday praised an announcement by Malaysia’s government that it will abolish death penalty. The experts in a statement encouraged Malaysia’s parliament to take the legislative steps and pass a law to this effect. The policy shift will replace the mandatory death penalty with alternative sentences concer...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is facing new inflows of asylum seekers from neighboring Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, according to the UN refugee agency. Speaking on the eve of the World Refugees Day, observed June 20 every year, Qaiser Khan Afridi, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refuge...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have begun an arduous journey to cross the Indian-Bangladeshi border for safe shelter on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh where more than 1 million Rohingya have been provided shelter. There are about 40,000 Rohingya in India with 20,000 registered with the UN refugee...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The UN refugee agency has called for urgent support for about 16,000 people — mostly women and children — in Burkina Faso, who have been driven out of their homes by a recent insurgent attack that left dozens dead in the country’s Sahel region. Since June 12, almost 16,000 Burkinabe have […]
PARIS (AA) – The Council of Europe has condemned Russian occupying forces in Crimea over human rights violations against ethnic minorities including Ukrainians and Muslim Crimean Tatars. Based on a recent report by Secretary-General Marija Pejcinovic Buric, the council’s Committee of Ministers noted in a meeting the human rights si...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief said at a special council session that Ukraine’s Mariupol city, after having been besieged by Russian forces, is in a “dire” situation, and residents face the risks of infections and diseases including cholera. Michelle Bachelet spoke after a UN Human Rights Council Resolution ado...
