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...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Artillery bombardment by Turkish forces killed nine people in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region. Following the bombing in Iraqi territory, Baghdad has called for a withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq’s borders, and has warned Ankara that it should handle its “domestic problems” with PKK ...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Myanmar’s preliminary objections in a Rohingya genocide case brought by Gambia. In its judgment, which is final and without appeal, the ICJ unanimously rejected the first, second, and third preliminary objections raised and the fourth objection with one dissenting ...
ANKARA (AA) – Over a decade has passed since the Oslo terror attack in which a far-right Norwegian extremist, inspired by anti-Muslim hate in a quest to “save” European culture, killed eight people with a bomb and shot dead another 69 at a youth camp. Anders Breivik began the carnage of July 22, 2011 with […]
SARAJEVO (AA) – It has been 14 years since Karadzic, one of those responsible for the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was captured in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, but not before executing the most well-documented and widely known genocide and crimes against humanity in Europe after World War II. Karadzic was held responsible...
PARIS (AA) – A French court on Tuesday sentenced a former Rwandan official to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of complicity in the 1994 genocide in the African country. The Paris Assize Court held Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, the former prefect of Gikongoro province, guilty of acts of genocide and complicity in genocide […...
BELGRADE, Serbia / ANKARA (AA) – Masterminds of the Bosnian genocide of 1995- Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic- driven by blind hate and ethnic prejudice, carried out the most well-documented and widely known genocide and crime against humanity in Europe after World War II. Both faced charges for their role in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War ...
