ANKARA (AA) – France will only accept politically persecuted people and not simply irregular immigrants, the interior minister has announced. “France will help Italy protect its borders to prevent more people from coming,” Gerald Darmanin told broadcaster Europe 1, about the latest migration flow to Italy’s Lampedusa is...
HARTFORD, Connecticut – A study led by the Yale School of Medicine has found that Asian-American medical students frequently face racism and often feel neglected in their training environment. The study was triggered by personal experiences with racism during the COVID -19 pandemic, in which Asian Americans were exposed to prejudice beca...
QUEBEC CITY, Quebec (Canada) – The Quebec government’s recent bill on indigenous health care has drawn criticism from the province’s medical college. The college argues the bill is “paternalistic and colonialist” and does not go far enough to address systemic racism in the health care system. The college has calle...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnian police on Tuesday arrested five former Serb troops suspected of participating in the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica. The suspects were arrested after an operation carried out in cities across the country by the members of the Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA). In a statement, SIPA said that the opera...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – More than two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, discrimination and hatred of Muslims in the US still exist to the ire of America’s largest Muslim civil rights advocacy group. “After 22 years, unfortunately, Islamophobia has taken root and become part of the structure of racism that exists ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – France will “intervene in” the Rohingya genocide case lodged with the International Court of Justice, announced a joint statement issued after visiting French President Emmanuel Macron met Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday. “France announces its decision to intervene, a...
Judge François Dadour asked potential jurors if they had any preconceived notions about accused’s race or religion MONTREAL, Canada – A Montreal Superior Court judge asked jurors questions about race and religion before selecting them to hear the case of Ali Ngarukiye, a Black Muslim accused of the attempted murder of a Montreal police o...
Anti-racism consultant expresses stress the need for a cultural change within the police and importance of holding individual officers accountable for their actions OTTAWA, Canada – The Human Rights Tribunal of the Canadian province of Alberta recently ruled that police in the capital city of Edmonton had discriminated against two Black ...
GENEVA (AA) – People of African descent are still facing “immense challenges” in participating meaningfully in public affairs in many countries due to “systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion often rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism,” says a report released by the UN Human Rights Office. ...
Jones criticized Republicans for their ‘authoritarianism’ after they applied the chamber’s recently implemented rules to silence him NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The Republican-controlled Tennessee House of Representatives on Monday cut off Democratic Rep. Justin Jones from speaking for the rest of the day. Jones criticized Republicans f...
