LONDON (AA) – A populist party in Sweden has launched a plan on Wednesday to bring immigration to Europe to the lowest level. Sweden Democrats put forward 30 proposals to tighten the immigration law and asylum policy. “There is no single factor that has affected Sweden as much and as negatively as the large, uncontrolled […]
LONDON (AA) – A Swedish-Somali politician has left the ruling Social Democrats party in protest over recent remarks by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, saying the party has become too xenophobic. Saida Hussein Moge criticized Andersson over comments she made last week where she said Sweden should not have any “Somalitowns.” The Social...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – A group of Kenyans whose ancestors were forcibly evicted from their land by British settlers during colonial rule have filed a case against the UK at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to demand justice. The group’s lawyer, Joel Kimutai Bosek, told the media that the UK has been avoiding […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – In a bid to restore the country’s indigenous name, a New Zealand political party is calling on parliament to change the country’s name to Aotearoa. The party has also called for officially restoring the Indigenous Te Reo Maori names to all towns and cities. The Maori are the Indigenous peoples living on […]
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s New South Wales state on Tuesday took a major stride in criminalizing the display of Nazi symbols. The state parliament’s lower house passed a bill to ban the swastika, a symbol that is associated with the Holocaust and the crimes committed especially against Jewish people. The bill must pass the upp...
ANKARA (AA) – It was 1971 when Geraldine Lee Shingoose, a survivor from Canada’s controversial Muscowequan residential school, decided she was not going back after experiencing horrific abuses. Shingoose remembers the trauma suffered at the residential school like it was yesterday. Set up by the Canadian government beginning in the...
LONDON, (AA) – Over 600 children — 58% of them Black — were subjected to “intrusive and traumatic” strip searches by the UK’s Metropolitan Police over a period of two years, a report from the Children’s Commissioner of England revealed on Monday. From 2018 to 2020, police stopped and conducted strip searches on 65...
ANKARA (AA) – On August 1, New Zealand observed the first anniversary of its government’s formal apology over ‘Dawn Raids’ — racist raids on Pacific people in the 1970s. In a statement, Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio said a major event will be held on August 27 in Auckland. Pacific leaders and communi...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Two Indigenous women unfurled a large banner during a mass on Thursday in Quebec, asking Pope Francis to “rescind the doctrine.” The banner referred to the Doctrine of Discovery, a contentious 15th Century papal edict that allowed explorers to take land from non-Christian countries with impunity. Some of Cana...
ANKARA (AA) – The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against a French restaurant in Paris over racism charges. Three Black women of African descent were not let in the Manko Restaurant near the Champs-Elysees Street in Paris on the grounds that they did not dress up in evening clothes, Le Parisien reported. After...
