Preliminary data show a double-digit spike in hate crimes last year, and a continued rise into 2022. Bias-motivated incidents in 37 major U.S. cities increased by nearly 39% on average. The 10 largest metropolitan areas reported a record 54.5% increase. Incidents targeting Asian and Jewish Americans accounted for the bulk of cases. The analy...
BERLIN (AA) – A suspected Nazi terrorist attack was prevented in Germany’s western city of Essen, officials said on Thursday. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said at a televised news conference in Duesseldorf that police discovered material for a bomb for a terror attack at the home of a 16-year-old high school student in...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools has identified at least 53 associated burial sites with 500 deaths reported so far, a number the US government believes could grow exponentially as the research continues. The report by the Interior Department pinpointed more than 400 schools desi...
PARIS (AA) – France on Tuesday marked the national day of the abolition of slavery, but non-governmental organizations see a long road of reparation ahead. In 2006, then-President Jacques Chirac proposed May 10 as the National Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Their Abolition. It has been celebrated ever since, and...
BERLIN – Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists committed 21,964 crimes in Germany last year, the government has admitted. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented the government’s report on politically motivated crimes at a news conference in Berlin. “Far-right is the biggest threat to our democracy and the biggest extremist threat ...
BERLIN (AA): Racism by authorities is a serious problem in Germany, and many people continue to witness racist behavior in their daily life, according to a recent study. Of the 5,000 people surveyed in a nationwide representative study, 65% said they believe there is a problem of racial discrimination by state authorities in Germany, according...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador on Monday over Russian Foreign Minister’s remarks that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.” The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that Sergei Lavrov’s comments were “ghastly”. It was stated that after Lavrov’s statements, Russi...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to “racial segregation and discrimination” against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The experts made their assessment based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to “discriminatory zoning and plannin...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US city of Minneapolis and its police department have engaged in an illegal “pattern or practice of race discrimination,” according to a report released Wednesday by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The department launched the study just days after then-police officer Derek Chauvin killed Ge...
BERLIN, GERMANY: A Berlin-based refugee rights activist has harshly criticized the German government for what he said was its unequal treatment of refugees from Ukraine as opposed to those from the Middle East on racial grounds. “It’s disgusting because people who are running away from war, who are running away from bombings would be tre...
