GENEVA (AA) – Muslims are structurally discriminated against by banks and financial institutions in the Netherlands, as a result of the law to stop money laundering and terrorism funding, according to the national coordinator against discrimination and racism. Rabin Baldewsingh told Dutch daily Trouw that he receives extra signals from M...
ANKARA (AA) – The Australian opposition was under fire for opposing Indigenous Voice to Parliament as Indigenous leaders accused opposition leader Peter Dutton of committing a “Judas betrayal” of the Voice. Noel Pearson, one of the most prominent Indigenous leaders in Australia, said Dutton has rejected the Voice to Parliament for ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s main opposition party has announced its opposition to the establishment of a consultative body, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, through a referendum. Speaking to reporters in Canberra, Peter Dutton, the leader of the center-right Liberal Party of Australia, accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of dividing the co...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has criticized British Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s controversial remarks accusing British-Pakistani men of being involved in sexual exploitation of women and children, calling them “discriminatory and xenophobic.” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at a weekly press briefi...
ANKARA (AA) – The Australian government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has formally introduced a bill in parliament to hold a referendum to recognize Indigenous people in the country’s constitution and to set up the “Voice to Parliament.” Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, who introduced the bill in parliament as a form...
LONDON (AA) – The British government has been widely criticized over its controversial asylum policies to tackle the mounting number of English Channel crossings by migrants in small boats. It has been accused of “scapegoating” migrants for the country’s “broken immigration policy.” Before Brexit, the UK was part of the European Union’s ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina has identified another six victims from the genocide in the 1990s, according to an advocacy organizatiion. The Institute for Missing Persons said the victims had been missing since 1992 and their remains were found in different mass graves across the country in 2021. The Bosnian War was spar...
LONDON (AA) – The British monarchy should apologize for its connections to the transatlantic slave trade if it “truly cared about beginning to rectify its role,” says an anti-monarchy campaigning organization. The transatlantic slave trade, which is viewed as one of the darkest chapters in history, lasted for more than 400 ye...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A hunk of wood and metal bar sit in the center of a near pitch dark room in the basement of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, illuminated by the space’s few rays of light. On their face, they appear to be driftwood and scraps — items of little […]
VIENNA (AA) — At least 1,479 racist incidents were reported across Austria last year, according to a report released on Tuesday. More than half of racist incidents, 68%, took place on online forums, social media, and video platforms, according to the annual report by the Vienna-based rights group Civil Courage and Anti-Racism Work (ZARA). A [&...
