UN human rights experts on Thursday described two mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand as “Islamophobic”. Tendayi Achiume, UN special rapporteur on racism, and Michal Balcerzak, chair of the working group of experts on people of African descent, released a joint statement on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. “Less […]
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World Water Day study highlights lethal nature of unsafe sanitation and hygiene for children, especially under-fives Children under five who live in conflict zones are 20 times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases linked to unsafe water than from direct violence as a result of war, Unicef has found. Analysing mortality data from 16 countries […]
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Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking giant’s employees. “To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused […]
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Research by the University of Alabama shows attacks by Muslims receive an average of 105 headlines, others just 15 A report that concludes terrorist attacks blamed on Muslims receive 357 percent more coverage than other groups recirculated after recent terror attacks in New Zealand, which was carried out by a white, non-Muslim male. Terrorist attacks […]
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Muslim associations have expressed despair that no one in government heeded their warnings about a rise in racism and violence As the alleged killer sits in an isolated, maximum security jail cell on the outskirts of Christchurch, many people in New Zealand are wondering how an alt-right extremist who allegedly amassed an arsenal of military grade […]
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The New Zealand Parliament on Tuesday held a special session with recitations from the Quran in solidarity with the Muslim community after the Christchurch massacre that left 50 people dead and several injured. The procession into the house was “made up of faith leaders, plus the Deputy Speaker and one of the Assistant Speakers,” said the New […]
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advocacy group is calling on advertisers to pull their support for Fox News unless a pair of hosts who are facing criticism for Islamophobic rhetoric are fired. “Fox News must clearly state that Jeanine Pirro will not be allowed back on the air after her long history of Islamophobic […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Tuesday a video game streaming service dubbed Stadia that attempts to capitalize on the company’s cloud technology and global network of data centers. The technology allows users to play games on their internet browser without having to wait for any content to be downloaded to their […]
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The head of the UN agency that helps 5.3 million Palestinian refugees has urged donors who filled a $446 million hole in its budget last year after the Trump administration cut the US contribution to be equally generous this year. “Last year we had an extraordinary crisis and an out-of-the-ordinary response,” Pierre Krahenbuhl told AP on Monday. “Our […]
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Since the Stockholm deal in December, airstrikes on Hodeidah have decreased but casualties have doubled elsewhere Yemen is continuing to experience a steady stream of violence, claiming at least one life every eight hours – despite the agreements reached between the internationally recognised government and the Houthis at talks in Sweden just over three months ago. According to figures […]
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