Tunis, Tunisia | Xinhua | Tunisia denied that it had deported immigrants from sub-Saharan African countries by force, according to a statement released by the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. “Following allegations concerning the forced deportation of a number of immigrants from the brotherly sub-Saharan African countries, the Ministry …
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Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua | Israel’s Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Sunday that his coalition government will not pass bills allowing discrimination against LGBTs and denying them access to services. His remarks came in response to statements by two of his extreme-right partners, in which they vowed to pass laws allowing …
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New York, U.S. | Xinhua | The terms used by U.S. and European journalists to describe non-European refugees reflect a racist European and American policy that only extends human rights protections to certain groups of people to the exclusion of others, making the death and suffering of Middle-Eastern, African and Asian …
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Women and girls living with disabilities face three times greater risk of sexual abuse Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Rampant discrimination and stigma meted on adolescent girls living with physical impairments required concerted effort to eradicate, international health advocates said on Tuesday. The advocates said in a statement issued in the …
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United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is against discrimination against some foreign nationals attempting to flee the fighting in Ukraine, his spokesman said on Tuesday. “The secretary-general strongly repudiates, in any shape or form, all discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, in the context of this conflict, as …
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United Nations | Xinhua | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for an end to identity-based discrimination, among other measures, to prevent genocide. Today, genocide remains a very real threat. The international community has repeatedly failed to respond collaboratively, swiftly and decisively to prevent genocide and related atrocity crimes, …
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Beijing, China | Xinhua | A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday urged the United States to stop discriminative actions against Chinese students and academics in the United States. For some time, the United States has been abusing judicial power to harass, interrogate, and even arrest and prosecute Chinese students in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu Regional Referral Hospital on Saturday discreetly discharged 30 patients who have recovered from coronavirus disease – COVID-19. Earlier this week, 27 others were discharged bringing to 275 cumulative recoveries from the facility since May. The individuals who included Gulu based journalists were flagged off …
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Abuja, Nigeria | AFP | African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in the Nigerian community in the southern city of Guangzhou. The African residents say they have suffered forced evictions, arbitrary …
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Blaj, Romania | AFP | Ion, a 72-year-old retiree from Romania’s minority Roma community, says he is used to living without rights. “No matter where we go, to the town hall, to the police or to school, doors get closed,” says the former construction site worker, who lives on the outskirts …
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