French far-right leader Marine Le Pen Friday proposed a ban on Muslim headscarves in all public places, in a bid to build on a record recent poll that put her almost neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron. The hijab policy, which would be contested in court and would almost certainly be ruled unconstitutional, saw the 53-year-old …
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A dozen Mexican police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the US border late in January. The Tamaulipas state attorney-general, Irving Barrios Mojica, said all 12 officers were in custody and face charges of homicide, abuse of authority and making false …
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If you are not a citizen where you live, for whatever reason, you will likely be low down on the vaccination list. If you are stateless, have migrated to another country or are a refugee due for security or political reasons, you know how it feels to live in a state without full legal rights. …
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A jarring report outlining decades of rampant child sex abuse at the hands of greedy nuns and perverted priests in the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany, paints a troubling picture of systematic abuse in the German church. The report is the byproduct of a lawsuit alleging that orphaned boys living in the boarding houses of the …
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A newly published United Nations report describes 2020 as a year of setbacks for the Palestinians, their institutions, and their economy owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and an unprecedented fiscal crisis. The report highlights that during the first COVID-19 lockdown last spring, around 150,000 Palestinians lost their jobs, and similarly large negative impacts are expected …
Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, said yesterday that Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in Humsa “raises a real risk of forcible transfer.” In a statement, Hastings said: “I visited the community of Humsa – Al Baqai’a which is situated some hundreds of metres into a firing zone in the Northern West …
A 26-year-old pregnant woman from Afghanistan will testify before the Prosecutor’s Office for the accusation of arson. The Afghan woman set herself on fire on Sunday morning in the Kera Tepe migrant on the island of Lesvos, Sto Nisi reported. Asylum seekers, police and the fire brigade intervened, but the heavily pregnant woman already had …
Conflict-torn Yemen “is falling off a cliff” and will face the worst famine the world has seen for decades unless donors, and especially its Gulf neighbors, contribute generously to this year’s U.N. humanitarian appeal for $3.85 billion, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned Wednesday. Mark Lowcock said Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab …
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A Somali migrant who had to flee his country due to violence has been forced to live on the streets after two European countries refused to grant him asylum. Ahmed Muhammed, who is using a different name due to security concerns, told Anadolu Agency his asylum request was rejected by France after two years of …
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A broad majority of Parliament has voted in favour of banning donations that seek to undermine democracy in Denmark. The move aims to prevent potentially extremist forces from using donations to erode basic freedom and human rights. “There exists extremist forces abroad that try to turn our Muslim citizens against Denmark and drive a wedge …
