The federal government has given out more than $10 billion to people suffering from health conditions related to the 9/11 attacks, The New York Daily News reports. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund had disbursed $10 billion in aid as of June 6. Benjamin Chevat, executive director of 911 [&hell...
Freelance journalist Tasmiha Khan of Chicago and a team of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters have been named the 2022-23 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellows. Rick Barrett, Corrinne Hess, and Mark Hoffman join Khan as fellowship recipients. In collaboration with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Longworth Media Fellowships promote in...
The use of torture is prohibited by the United Nations convention that also opposes other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment. Yet, many countries still employ methods of torture, including beatings, waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation and solitary confinement. To increase global awareness of the problem, the U.N. designat...
On Tuesday, the Jan. 6 committee heard emotional testimony illustrating the toll former president Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election, had on public servants and their families. The hearing revealed Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, offered to deliver fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence. The committee showed tex...
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...
Hamza Taouzzale has been elected as First Citizen by London’s Westminster City Council. The 22-year-old is the city’s first incumbent from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background. Taouzzale recently graduated from King’s College London with a master’s degree in global affairs. He was elected to represent the interests of the people of Wes...
On Tuesday, France’s highest administrative court upheld a ban on the burkini under a new “secularism framework”. It prohibits women from wearing the full-length swimwear in public pools. The Council of State confirmed the suspension of the internal regulations of the swimming pools passed in May by the city of Grenoble. The city had authoriz...
On Tuesday, Tunisian President Kais Saied confirmed a draft constitution to be put to a referendum vote on July 25 will not enshrine Islam as the “religion of the state.” Rather the next constitution will mention “belonging to an umma (community) which has Islam as its religion,” Saied told journalists. He clarified “the umma and […]...
On Monday, Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif appeared in court to answer for corruption allegations. Sharif became prime minister in April after a vote of no confidence ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The corruption investigation stems from allegations that Sharif abused his power when he was the province of Punjab’s chie...
