The Canadian government announced Tuesday that it has agreed to pay C$20 billion (US$15.7 billion) in compensation to the children of First Nations Indigenous families over a human rights complaint that has been ongoing since 2007. Patty Hajdu, Canada’s Minister of Indigenous Services, and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Marc Miller held a joint press conference …
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A technical error on Israel’s state archive website has revealed that a prominent Israeli politician said in 1948 that he could “forgive instances of rape” committed against Palestinian women in the violence that preceded the founding of the Israeli state, Haaretz has reported. Aharon Zisling, who would later serve as agriculture minister, made the remarks …
In the report titled “Islamophobia in the Mainstream” published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), financial aid to anti-Muslim groups in the country was compiled. In the report, it was announced that 35 of the 50 biggest anti-Islamic charities and foundations examined transferred 105 million 865 thousand 763 dollars to 26 anti-Muslim groups in …
Polish serviceman Emil Czeczko, who escaped to Belarus, informed investigators of the murder of over 240 refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border, the Belarusian Investigative Committee announced Wednesday. “During the criminal case investigation, Emil Czeczko disclosed that he and his fellow servicemen had participated in organized murders in the border area and near the settlement of …
When A H Almas, 18, and two of her friends stepped into their classroom on a December morning, the teacher immediately yelled at them: “Get out.” The Muslim girls were not allowed to sit in the classroom because they were wearing Hijab, or headscarf. “When we arrived at the door of the classroom, the teacher …
A mosque in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt province was targeted in an attack by assault rifles, a report said early Monday. Two individuals heard shots near the Islamic Cultural Center in Halle, according to a statement made by police, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. The police discovered three bullets on the ground. Eyewitnesses noted that a 55-year-old person …
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The number of homeless people is on the increase in Belgium’s big cities, according to a new census conducted at the initiative of the King Baudouin Foundation. The census was carried out by various social organisations and the KU Leuven, UC Louvain and Liège universities. It paves the way for more adequate and effective measures …
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Syria Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator Mark Cutts, at a press conference held via video conference, pointed out that the temperatures in the northwest of the country do not drop to minus degrees, making the living conditions of Syrians staying in tents extremely difficult. Stating that about 1,000 tents collapsed due to heavy snowfall, Cutts said …
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An Indigenous community in Canada’s western province of British Columbia has found dozens of potential unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school, the latest such discovery over the past year. Williams Lake First Nation announced on Monday that preliminary results of the first phase of a geophysical search at St Joseph Mission …
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People of African descent in Switzerland experience racial discrimination in various aspects of their lives, UN human rights experts found after visiting the country. “Racial profiling and police controls of Black people humiliate, criminalize and stigmatize,” Dominique Day, head of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, said in a statement. …
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