A scientist at the University of Amsterdam is under fire because she rejected a Turkish student for an internship due to the Turkey’s operation in Syria. In response to the student’s application, the scientist said that she is “not inviting Turkish students at this time” due to the situation in Syria, AD reports. “We reject the employee’s reaction. Apologies …
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The Dutch government is stepping up the fight against discrimination in the employee recruitment process. Employers and employment agencies caught discriminating while looking for staff will now be fined up to 4,500 euros per case. Their misconduct will also be made public, State Secretary Tamara van Ark of Social Affairs and Employment announced in a …
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There were 19,000 recorded hate crimes in the capital in 2018, averaging more than 52 a day, data analysis by the London Assembly has revealed. Racist and religious hate crime doubled compared to 2017, and there were three times as many disability hate crimes recorded in the city. Homophobic hate crime increased 81 per cent …
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Police arrested a Syracuse University student in connection with a series of new graffiti markings in support of protests against several recent racist incidents on campus, authorities said Thursday. Syracuse Police Sgt. Matthew Malinowski said the student is accused of criminal mischief in the fourth degree and of making graffiti. The suspect was identified in connection …
More than 5,700 hate crimes were reported last year in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) region, a report said on Nov. 15. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) published its 2018 hate crime data, reporting 5,735 incidents. “On the International Day for Tolerance, this is our contribution to …
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A female traveler from Cameroon complained that Air France was “subjected to racial discrimination and inhuman treatment”. Cameroonian female passenger of the French National Airline Air France’African passengers’ ill-treatment’ reportedly complained on the grounds. According to national press reports, Gisele Kamanou Goune, who returned to his country for vacation from the United States where he was teaching, …
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At least 187 Islamophobia-related crimes occurred in Germany, according to a report by the government. The government issued the report following a question filed by a leftist group in the parliament. At least 187 Islamophobic crimes were committed in the third quarter of 2019, however, the number is expected to increase given that previous figures …
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The French National Assembly approved the draft law, which regarded anti-Zionism as equivalent to antisemitism. French National Assemblyin the voting, anti-zionismn Anti-Semitismand without any sanction, the bill was accepted with 72 ‘no’ vote and 154 ‘yes’ vote. The bill was based on the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. In an open letter published in the …
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The controversial photo of the nine students, taken during the school’s Saint Sava Day celebration on Monday, caused an uproar among Bosniaks in Srebrenica who said they fear for their children’s safety. The Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army was a WWII Serb nationalist movement. During the 1992-95 Bosnian war, Serb nationalists wearing Chetnik insignia …
The New York Times has published interviews with some of them, many of whom had secured admission to some of the world’s most prestigious universities. According to the paper, at least 16 Iranian students have been turned back since August, despite having valid visas which they had obtained after a notoriously grueling, months-long vetting process. When the …
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