British lawmakers stated in a report on Monday that the country needs to take action against a rise in anti-Semitism throughout the country. The All-Party Parliamentary found in particular that there has been a growth of “cyber hate” on various social media websites against the Jewish people. Last week the Community Security Trust , a [...]
Bulgarian authorities are failing to address hate crimes, leading to a state of fear, Amnesty International (AI) report Monday. According to AI, over the past two years the number of asylum seekers crossing the border from Turkey to Bulgaria increased almost ten-fold, causing an increase in hate crimes within the state. AI’s researcher on discrimination [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday released a report detailing the violent attacks on Libyan journalists by various armed groups over the past two years. The 54-page report, entitled “War on the Media: Journalists Under Attack in Libya,” explains how the attacks, kidnappings or threats have caused journalists to either flee the country or censor [...]
A lawyer for the one of the two Al Jazeera journalists currently jailed in Egypt said Sunday that a retrial has been scheduled for February 12. Earlier this month, Al Jazeera journalist and Australian national Peter Greste was released from prison and deported after serving 400 days in a Cairo detention facility, but Mohamed Fadel [...]
Rights group Equal Justice Under Law filed suit Fridays against the cities of Ferguson and Jennings , Missouri, for their practice of jailing citizens who fail to pay debts owed to the city for minor offenses and traffic tickets. The group alleges poor citizens are being unfairly imprisoned for their inability to make a “monetary [...]
Greece’s new government, led by the left-wing Syriza party , vowed Monday to extend legal status to same-sex couples. Justice Minister Nikolaos Paraskevopoulos in a speech before the Greek parliament stated that country’s civil partnership laws will be extended to same-sex couples. In 2013 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled [...]
The London High Court on Friday rejected a request for an injunction by Iran’s main oil tanker firm, NITC , which the company had sought to block the re-imposition of sanctions by the EU. High Court Judge Nicholas Green gave his reasoning for rejecting NITC’s request at a hearing on Monday. NITC is expected to [...]
Girls have been attacked in at least 70 countries for seeking education, according to a new UN report released Monday. The report states, “he educational rights of girls and women are often targeted due to the fact that they represent a challenge to existing gender and age-based systems of oppression.” According to the UN, in [...]
Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Monday after the US Supreme Court refused to extend a two-week stay on a federal judge’s ruling. Last month a judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama struck down the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment and the Alabama Marriage Protection Act . [...]
Somalia’s prime minister on Sunday appealed to the US government and US banks to resume allowing money transfers to Somalia, a crucial service for many in the war-torn country. Almost all US banks have stopped allowing remittance services to Somalis in the US due to recently enacted legislation that attempts to stop money from reaching [...]
