Tag: Minorities

Party calls Union Home Minister’s refugee community outreach as a “poll gimmick”. The Trinamool Congress leadership on Friday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his “appeasement remark” and said communal politics has no place in Bengal.Mocking Mr. Shah’s scheduled visit to a Matua family for lunch, the party ...

He called on governments to “repeal all laws that undermine the exercise of the human rights to freedom of religion or belief,” adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation and act to empower minorities to claim all their rights to religion and beliefs.The former foreign minister of the Maldives said in a ...

Pakistani actor Sarwat Gilani, who was part of the popular series Churails on Zee 5 recently, has spoken out against the news of the kidnapping, forcible conversion and marriage of a Christian minor girl in Pakistan. As per reports, the Sindh High Court has granted custody of a 13-year-old ...

Pakistan’s state-run council of clerics, which advises the government on religious issues, gave its approval Wednesday to the construction of a new temple for minority Hindus, ruling Islamic law allows them a place of worship.Lal Malhi, a prominent Hindu leader who is also a member of parliament, applauded the ...

KARACHI, PakistanA report released by a Pakistani think-tank has debunked claims of several international and domestic NGOs that the minority community in the country was being forced to convert to Islam. Titled Forced Conversations or Faith Conversations: Rhetoric and Reality, the study published by the Institute of Policy Studies ...

The plea, filed by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has also asked the National Commission for Minorities to reconsider the definition of minority. A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking a transfer of all pending petitions before various High Courts challenging the validity of the Centre’s ...

Dr Raghib Ali, a clinical epidemiologist Cambridge University, said ethnic minorities will likely continue to be hit hardest by Covid-19 because the factors that make them vulnerable can't be changed overnightEthnic minorities will likely continue to be hit hardest by Covid-19 during the second wave because the factors that ...

Dr Raghib Ali, one of the main researchers behind today's report, ruled out structural racism as a factor behind Covid-19 disproportionately affecting BAME peopleEthnic minorities have a higher risk of catching and dying from Covid-19 than whites because of their jobs and where they live, a Government report has concluded.   Number 10's Race ...

Pak failed to protect religious minorities from forced conversions, parliamentary committee saidIslamabad: A parliamentary committee in Pakistan has said that the country has not fulfilled its responsibility to protect religious minorities from forced conversions, according to a media report on Tuesday.The parliamentary committee on forced religious conversions headed by ...

Ministers have failed to bring in measures to reduce the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on ethnic minorities, despite warnings months ago that action was needed.Following high death rates among minorities in the first peak of coronavirus – with official statistics showing that black people were 1.9 times more likely ...