TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A new report has revealed that police in Toronto disproportionately target Black, Indigenous and other minority groups. The contents of the report have prompted the forces’ chief to apologize for the conduct on behalf of the department. “As an organization, we have not done enough to ensure that every p...
LONDON (AA): Britain’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a High Court decision that asylum seekers can be flown to Rwanda in a controversial scheme. The decision means the first deportation flight to Rwanda can go ahead right away. In April, the UK announced plans to send some of the people who seek […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Sabiti Mufupi, 50, is proud to be an indigenous Batwa pygmy. However, there are some people who look down on him and his clansmen because they are short and in most cases small in size. Mufupi, who lives in Kasese in western Uganda, said that his tribe was displaced from their […]
PARIS (AA) – The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on Thursday called on Denmark to urgently address anti-Muslim discrimination and racism against minorities and stop forced evictions of immigrant families. In a monitoring report, the commission urged Danish authorities to introduce a national action plan against racism ...
LONDON (AA) – The founder of a proscribed far-right terror group in Britain was jailed for 8.5 years on Tuesday. Alex Davies, the founder of National Action, was found guilty of terrorism charges last month. He was described as the “extremist’s extremist” at the court. Davies is the final member of the proscribed group who [&...
LONDON: More than a hundred women in London marched 16 kilometers to highlight “malignant racism and misogyny” against Black women. The march, organized by the Women’s Equality Party, stretched from Fryent Park in northwest London to the New Scotland Yard. It came on the second anniversary of the murder of two sisters, Nicole...
Algiers, Algeria – (AFP): The son of a French anti-imperialist tortured and killed by the French army during Algeria’s war of independence has said he cannot forgive and that the “truth” is more important than apologies offered by Paris. Maurice Audin, a mathematician and communist who supported Algeria’s struggle...
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s minister of justice and correctional services has requested that a judge reopen an inquest into the death of prominent Muslim anti-apartheid activist Imam Abudllah Haron who died more than 50 years ago. “The renewed investigation into the Apartheid Crime will consider expert reports from a state pathologist ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday held a ceremony to honor the 26 victims of the 1992 Ferhadija massacre in the capital Sarajevo. Relatives of the victims and politicians participated in the ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre. Dozens of people laid wreaths and prayed at the monument built [&helli...
BERLIN (AA) – The family of the 1993 Solingen arson attack victims has called for stronger unity against racism and right-wing extremism in Germany. Kamil Genc, who lost his two daughters and two sisters in the racist attack, called on people to join the commemoration events on Sunday, in the western city of Solingen. The […]
