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December 16, 2016
'Migrants are here, they are living, and we have to guarantee their human rights'
Laia Ortiz discusses how Barcelona is trying to forge its own progressive integration policy for refugees, despite the constraints put on it by the Spanish government and the European Union.
Laia Ortiz is the Deputy Mayor for Social Rights at the City of Barcelona, and a close ally of Mayor Ada...
December 15, 2016
The recent violent attacks on a Hindu temple in Bangladesh’s Netrokona district, and previous assaults on temples and homes in October in Brahmanbaria are a troubling illustration of Bangladesh’s struggle to protect two of its fundamental values: secularism and pluralism.
Students gathered in 2013 to show their support for the Shahbag movement for freedom and democracy in...
December 13, 2016
सोमवार को सऊदी अरब पुलिस ने एक महिला को गिरफ्तार किया। मामला सऊदी अरब की राजधानी रियाद का है। पुलिस ने इस महिला को बिना हिजाब वाली फोटो ट्वीट करने के जुर्म में गिरफ्तार किया है। दरअसल सऊदी में महिलाओं के ऊपर कई प्रकार के प्रतिबंध लगे हुए है।
पुलिस प्रवक्ता फवाज अल-मैमन ने महिला के बारे में नाम के साथ-साथ कुछ भी जानकारी देने से मना कर दिया। मीडिया और कई वेबसाइट में इस महिला का नाम मलाक...
December 13, 2016
The European Commission has decided to start returning migrants from other European countries back to Greece, lifting a ban on the practice that was put in place in 2011. The decision is influenced by concerns that 13,000 migrants recently disappeared from camps in Northern Greece and may have migrated onwards into Northern Europe. European leaders also want Greece to start returning migrants to...
December 7, 2016
Each one of us can take meaningful action to end the scourge of gender-based violence
All men should stand up to violence against women /BIGSTOCK
To all fathers, sons, and husbands:
Every daughter has a father; every son has a mother; every husband, a wife. As daughters, mothers, and wives, we call upon the men of Bangladesh to stand with the girls and women they...
December 7, 2016
On first reading about the protests because the new plastic British five-pound note contains animal fat – and the mass petition to have it withdrawn – I immediately thought of the protests in 1857 that led up to the Indian Mutiny rebellion. “You’d have thought we’d have learned the lesson since then,” I said to myself.
Vegetarians, vegans and religious...
December 7, 2016
John Kerry offered yet another tough-love talk to Israel at the pro-Israel Saban Forum yesterday. The United States gives Israel more than half of the aid that we give “to the entire world,” and Israel simply ignores us when we warn it about new settlements.
Kerry: Every president, Republican and Democrat, has been opposed to settlements – we issue a warning...
December 5, 2016
The Obama Administration and Army Corps of Engineers have officially denied the easement to cross under Lake Oahe -- halting the Dakota Access Pipeline -- thanks to the hard work and dedication of the brave water protectors! #NoDAPL — with Maureen Martens Cruz Hauprich.
Sabrangindia has been reporting this struggle consistently especially when iconic...
December 5, 2016
An off-duty hijab-clad Muslim police officer was called “ISIS” and told to go back to her “country” by a white man who also pushed her 16-year-old son, the latest in a series of incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted in the US following Donald Trump’s win.
Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and wearing her hijab, dropped off her son in...
December 2, 2016
With at least 84% of Airbnb hosts in LA listing two or more properties, the majority of Airbnb’s business is not part of a local sharing economy but rather a large profit economy that comes at the at the expense of low income families, Palestinians, and anyone else who gets in the way.
Ariel Gold disrupts Ashton Kutcher's Airbnb presentation. Photo credit: Mondoweiss
Ashton...