Nearly 20,000 boys and girls were victims of “grave violations” during wars worldwide in 2020, a UN report said on Monday. The tally of over 19,300 “grave violations” includes the recruitment and use of children by armed groups, killing and maiming, rape and sexual violence, and abductions. It does not include children who were affected …
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Greek border forces are violently and illegally detaining groups of refugees and migrants before summarily returning them to Turkey, in contravention of their human rights obligations under EU and international law, new research from Amnesty International has revealed. The report, Greece: Violence, lies and pushbacks, documents how the Greek authorities are conducting illegal pushbacks at land …
Police in a city northwest of Edmonton say they are searching for a suspect after an attack on two Muslim women that is being treated as a hate crime. St. Albert RCMP say in a news release that two women were walking along a pathway, bordering Edmonton, when a man wearing a mask started yelling …
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A Muslim man was assaulted in what appears to be another hate crime, in Canada’s Saskatoon city. According to CBC, the man was “stabbed, beaten and had his beard cut” in an attack which took place early Friday morning. The victim, identified as Muhammad Kashif, said that he was near his parked car in an …
A Canadian Indigenous group said in a statement on Wednesday that a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site near a former Catholic Church-run residential school that housed Indigenous children taken from their families. The latest discovery of graves near Cranbrook, British Columbia follows reports of similar …
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As discussions continue over the discovery of unmarked graves at three residential schools in Canada for Indigenous children, there are now claims that the bodies of some children were burned at Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ontario. A march was organized by the Brantford Regional Indigenous Support Centre for children who lost their lives …
The premises of Al Ghazali Institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris was defaced with Islamophobic and racist inscriptions on Sunday. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin condemned the act as “unacceptable degradation” and assured to find the perpetrators of these acts. The incident took place at the institute’s campus in the southern city of Martigues, close …
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A Turkish family was attacked in the northern German city of Lubeck, German police sources said Monday. According to a statement from the Lubeck Police Department, on July 3, an argument erupted between a Turkish family of four and a German couple. The 45-year-old Turkish father and his four- and eight-year-old children were affected by …
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Hagia Sophia Mosque in Amsterdam, the Netherlands was vandalized on Sunday night, according to the National Vision Federation. The windows of the mosque, which is affiliated with the federation, were broken with a beer bottle, the federation said in a statement. Highlighting the increasing incidents of hate speech and racist attacks in the country, it …
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There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today – much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of the global population – up to 811 million people – …
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