A Dutch-Turkish single mother and her 15-year-old son faced so much harassment, racism, and discrimination from a group of teenagers in Giethoorn that they’ve decided to move. The incidents continue, despite multiple reports to the police, Public Prosecution Service (OM), and the municipality of Steenwijkerland, which covers Giethoorn, Zembla reports. The investigative program has images …
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The United Nations will need about $3.9bn this year to help millions of people in war-torn Yemen, a top UN humanitarian official has said. Acting Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Ramesh Rajasingham told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that “the biggest constraint right now is funding” to help about …
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“The situation of children and families in the Horn of Africa is dire. They are desperate. Millions of lives are hanging in the balance. “The needs are massive and urgent, and they are quickly outpacing the available funds to respond. We need to act now to prevent a catastrophe. “UNICEF projects that up to 20 …
A mosque in Germany was vandalized Wednesday when unknown attackers painted a swastika on one of its doors, according to a Muslim body head. Turgut Ulker from Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) stated that similar attacks on the mosques in Dortmund were carried out last month and these attacks, which have increased recently, worry …
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Greece has launched a judicial investigation into a march for rights by members of the country’s Turkish minority that took place in July 2021. The march, which was organized by the Xhanti Turkish Union (ITB), one of the oldest and most influential associations of Greece’s Turkish minority, was attended by thousands of people and prominent …
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Spain has moved a step closer to investigating allegations of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. On Tuesday, the Spanish parliament agreed to examine a proposal for an inquiry, after years without a large-scale probe. The Spanish Catholic Church has so far refused to set up an independent commission, despite acknowledging more than 200 …
France’s wounded psyche is the invisible character in every one of Sabri Louatah’s novels and the hit television series he wrote. He speaks of his “sensual, physical, visceral love” for the French language and of his attachment to his hometown in southeastern France, bathed in its distinctive light. He closely monitors the campaign for the …
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Fifty-four unmarked graves at two former Indian Residential Schools in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been located with ground-penetrating radar, the Keeseekookse First Nation said at a news conference Tuesday, “A very solemn day,” said Keeseekookse Chief Lee Kitchemonia. “I think about all those children…gone to school and never returned.” The graves were located …
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologised for the systematic use of “extreme violence” during Indonesia’s 1940s war for independence. A report on Thursday found that the Dutch army had deliberately tortured Indonesian independence fighters between 1945 and 1949. Military leaders and politicians in the Netherlands had condoned and largely ignored the violence, the report …
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Last August, when I was in the middle of covering the federal election, I got an email from W5 about a story they needed my help with — the forced sterilization of Indigenous women. While I was excited to expose what was happening to women in my community, this story had a sad, familiar ring …
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