ISTANBUL (AA) – High level officials from the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have agreed to take concrete steps to combat rising anti-Muslim racism in Europe. Daniel Holtgen, CoE’s special representative on antisemitic, anti-Muslim and other forms of religious intolerance...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US will expand the size of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado, which commemorates the Native American victims of an 1864 attack by US soldiers, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has said. Haaland, the first Indigenous Cabinet member in US history, and National Park Service Director Chuck Sams at...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A court in South Africa has convicted a white supremacist leader and pastor to two life sentences for plotting attacks against Black people in the country. The high court in the eastern Mpumalanga province sentenced Harry Johannes Knoesen, 63. He was accused of planning biological weapons attacks between December 2018...
Paris, France (AFP): Facebook must pay reparations to the Muslim Rohingya who were forced from their homes in Myanmar after a brutal genocide by the Myanmar military. In a damning report by Amnesty International, it has been brought to light that the onslaught against the Muslim Rohingyas was fired by intense hate, exacerbated by rampant [&hel...
Sydney, Australia – (AFP): Hundreds of activists have rallied in Australia to decry colonial Britain’s destructive impact on Indigenous peoples, as the country held a public holiday to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II. “Abolish the Monarchy” demonstrators gathered in cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, ...
Lagos, Nigeria – (AFP): From Kenya and Nigeria to South Africa and Uganda, Queen Elizabeth’s death has met with an outpouring of official condolences, mourning and memories of her frequent visits to Africa during her seven decades on the throne. However, the British monarch’s passing also revived a sensitive debate over Afric...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Sarajevo Safari, a documentary by Slovenian director Miran Zupanic, uncovers little-known shocking details about the Bosnian War of the 90s. The film is about rich foreigners who paid money for the opportunity to shoot civilians in the besieged capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the positions of the Serb army....
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – As condolences continue to pour in across the world following the death of British Queen Elizabeth II, a South African opposition party has refused to mourn her death due to Britain’s colonial past. “We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish far-right politicians participating in this year’s elections have been exposed for wanting to eradicate Muslims and “blackheads,” a derogatory term for Black people. Anti-racist magazine ‘Expo’, alongwith news outlet ‘Expressen’, has revealed right-wing candidates who also open...
LONDON, UK (AA) – UK employees from ethnic minority backgrounds face high levels of racial discrimination in the workplace, forcing many to quit, a new survey has found. The survey, conducted by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), found that over 120,000 Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) workers across the UK left their jobs due to […]
