Tag: Racism

With his American passport, Rollo did not need a visa; he could simply walk into France. With my Indian passport, not only did I need to apply for a visa, but I also had to interview in person at a French consulate and pay a visa application fee. It ...

More than 180,000 people across France, including tens of thousands in Paris, have joined marches to condemn a surge in anti-Semitism amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. As of Saturday, the interior minister said there had been 1,247 anti-Semitic acts since the war began on October 7, ...

The political future of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman hangs in the balance as she faces anger within her own Conservative Party after making unauthorised comments about the country’s pro-Palestine demonstrations, which she called “hate marches” and for criticising the police. In an opinion piece published in The Times ...

The Danish government has been accused of 'racism' over a controversial plan to break up so-called 'ghettos' of inner-city immigrant communities to encourage integration.The sweeping package of laws, which has received all-party support, allows large numbers of 'non-western' people to be evicted and moved elsewhere.The aim is to redevelop ...

#Pakistan News Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles expressed her deep sadness at witnessing a young Black girl being denied a medal during a gymnastics ceremony in Ireland, a moment captured in a now-viral video. The video in question, recorded at a GymStart event in March 2022, has recently ...

#Pakistan News As racist messages perpetrated by far-right groups against refugees and migrants flood social media, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated Türkiye’s stance on the issue. He stressed that they would not tolerate illegal migration but would also stand against racist behavior and attacks targeting migrants, as well as ...

#Pakistan News It was 60 years ago; I was at the middle school in a factory town in Anatolia when our Kennedy-era Peace Corps teacher, Mr. F. Pickering, was trying to teach us Martin Luther King Jr.’s (MLK) “I Have a Dream” speech. The March on Washington had happened ...

Families are spread out on the grass beneath one of our greatest cathedrals. In the meandering lanes and alleyways hereabouts, crowds drift happily past handsome shop fronts selling everything from expensive watches to fudge.The Sunday market is teeming, the adjacent food market is packed and there is plenty of ...

A Labour-backed report has been slammed after it branded a popular UK tourist city as a place of “casual, systemic and structural racism”.The report into the city of York by the campaign group Inclusive Equal Rights UK (IERUK) and funded by the Labour-run city council using figures from the 2021 ...

It's a city steeped in history, with cobbled streets, ancient landmarks and the famous Minster to make it a magnet for tourists from across the globe.But the millions who visit York annually may be surprised to discover a report by a little-known campaign group called Inclusive Equal Rights UK ...