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Racism & xenophobia
RSS FeedSouth Africa: Xenophobia still smouldering
2009-06-19, Issue 438
"My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won't have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign peop...
Global: Geneva 2009 Declaration Against Racism
2009-06-12, Issue 437
We participants of the Civil Society Forum for the Durban Review Conference 2009 held in Geneva 17 to 19 April strongly welcome the holding of the Durban Review Conference and reaffirm our full and dedicated support for the Durban Declaration and Pla...
Global: The facts: How Israel orchestrated the real Geneva ‘hate fest’ against Black and Brown people
Arlene Eisen
2009-06-12, Issue 437
On Saturday, April 18, two days before the United Nations Durban Review Conference (DRC) officially convened, anti-racist demonstrators from every continent and nearly every struggle in the world filled the streets of downtown Geneva. A sea of flags,...
New evidence reveals police in Europe target minorities excessively
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Pervasive use of ethnic and religious stereotypes by law enforcement across Europe is harming efforts to combat crime and terrorism, according to a report released today by the Open Society Justice Initiative. Ethnic profiling occurs most often in po...
Global: Anti-racism conference winds down amid NGO expulsions
2009-04-30, Issue 430
The United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva concluded its general debate after hearing statements on new forms of racist discrimination and expelling three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for disruptive behaviour. A number of the UN age...
South Africa: Migrants don't vote
2009-04-17, Issue 428
In May 2008, South Africa was rocked by the worst xenophobic attacks that the country has ever seen. Less than a year later, the issue is almost invisible from the national election campaign. South Africa has long been troubled by xenophobia, but the...
Global: Everyday racism in China
2009-04-03, Issue 426
From the early eighties, when African students could still study for free at the Beida University in Beijing, discrimination against Africans in China was reported in the international media. Since then, the story has been regularly repeated. Just be...
Global: Obama under fire from black activists
United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Durban Review
2009-03-20, Issue 424
Black activists around the country will hold simultaneous press conferences on Saturday, March 21, 2009, also the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racism. The December 12th Movement International Secretariat will hold a Press C...
South Africa: Act II of xenophobia waiting in the wings
2009-03-13, Issue 423
A repeat of the xenophobic violence that swept through South Africa - killing at least 62 people and displacing 100,000 others - will return if the government continues to ignore its origins, says a report by the International Organization for Migrat...
Global: Durban review conference
Geneva, Switzerland, 20-24 April 2009
2009-02-13, Issue 419
The Durban Review Conference, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 20-24 April 2009, will evaluate progress towards the goals set by the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa,...
Global: End racial profiling
Justice for Oscar Grant, Adolph Grimes and Robbie Tolan
2009-02-13, Issue 419
In the span of 24 hours between December 31st, 2008 and January 1st, 2009, three Black men were the victims of racial profiling at the hands of various law enforcement agencies throughout the US. Oscar Grant, a 22-year old father, was shot and killed...
South Africa: Keeping xenophobia out of politics
2009-02-13, Issue 419
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa displaced 150,000 people and killed more than 60 in 2008. This year, as the country heads to the polls, researchers say local politicians may be capitalizing on the hate and fear that fuelled the attacks - this time...
Global: UN rights chief urged to fight "orwellian distortions"
2009-01-29, Issue 417
As diplomats gathered in Geneva to draft the outcome declaration for the U.N.'s upcoming world conference on racism, UN Watch, an independent non-govermental organization headquartered in Geneva, called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon and human rights high c...
South Africa: Foreign nationals attacked in Durban
2009-01-09, Issue 414
A Tanzanian refugee, who escaped death by hiding in a bathroom, is reeling after losing a second brother to alleged xenophobic violence in less than a year. Zane Omari's younger brother, Said, died on Monday as a result of injuries he sustained when ...
South Africa: Foreigners (still) beware
2008-11-28, Issue 408
As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in Western Cape Province, she heard the armed men outside shout: "We're going to kill you because you don't want to listen....
South Africa: Teen gets 169 years for racist murder spree
2008-11-21, Issue 407
A white South African teenager who killed four blacks, including a three-month-old baby, in a racially-motivated shooting spree was sentenced on Friday to 169 years in prison, the SABC reported. A court in North West province imposed the sentence on ...
South Africa: Foreign competitors not welcome
2008-10-18, Issue 402
About 200 Somali businessmen in South Africa's Western Cape Province are being threatened with violence if they continue doing business in the townships. They recently returned to the areas after fleeing a wave of xenophobic attacks in May 2008. A gr...
Global: Racial discrimmination in the labour market
2008-10-18, Issue 402
The ILO global reports have particularly highlighted the link between poverty and racial discrimination and examined in detail the situation of ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, people of African descent, the Roma and religious ...
South Africa: Belated apology for Apartheid casualty
2008-09-07, Issue 395
In 1968 the BBC's Africa Editor Martin Plaut was one of 600 students at the University of Cape Town protesting because black lecturer Archie Mafeje had been denied a teaching post there. Returning to Cape Town 40 years later for a reunion of campus r...
Global: Authorities order bars not to serve black people
2008-07-24, Issue 390
According to a report appearing in the South China Morning Post, Beijing authorities are secretly planning to ban black people and others it considers social undesirables from entering the city’s bars during the Olympic Games, a move that would contr...
South Africa: Refugees dumped at Albert Park
2008-07-12, Issue 387
Somewhere in the dark in Albert Park are about 120 refugees, mostly women and young children. These are not young jobseekers from Mozambique and Malawi, doing the African renaissance equivalent of a post-degree work holiday in London. These are docum...
South Africa: Showdown at Durban city hall
2008-07-12, Issue 387
Metro Police on Firday arrested and forcibly removed more than 190 foreign refugees who had camped at the back entrance of Durban City Hall for two days. The group, which was made up predominantly of children with their mothers, had been trying to ge...
South Africa: Citizenship, violence and xenophobia
2008-06-27, Issue 384
More than 50 people died and tens of thousands of people were displaced as a result of ‘xenophobic’ violence in South Africa during 2008. A number of urgent questions resulted from these attacks: Why are foreign African migrants the targets of violen...
South Africa: KZN gives R1m to help foreign nationals return home
2008-06-20, Issue 382
KwaZulu-Natal has coughed up at least R1 million in transport costs to repatriate foreign nationals in the province to their countries of origin.vBetween 700 and 800 refugees had already been sent home, mainly to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, said...
South Africa: Government declares day of healing
2008-06-12, Issue 380
Government is considering declaring a national day of healing to enable the nation to pay its respects to all those who lost their lives during the recent attacks on people from other countries. The day will not be a public holiday, but a normal work...
Southern Africa: Xenophobia impacts on Mozambique
2008-06-13, Issue 380
A month ago, 47-year-old Catarina Manungo was the owner of a two-bedroom house in Boksburg, where she lived with her four children and a grand-daughter. A few short weeks later, Manungo and her two youngest children find themselves living in a tent i...
South Africa: Government takes stock of xenophobia crisis
2008-06-13, Issue 380
At least 21 of the 62 people who died in the recent xenophobic violence were South African citizens, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday....
South Africa: It's about time our bubble burst
2008-05-30, Issue 376
The Free State students who made the racist video are perhaps breathing a sigh of relief that they’re no longer the centre of the world’s attention. It was too much for them too soon. The world was shocked then too. At least they too know, no matter ...
South Africa: Army deployed to assist police quell violence
2008-05-22, Issue 373
President Thabo Mbeki has given the go-ahead to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to step in and assist police quell the attacks on foreign nationals. The attacks have left at least 40 dead, and thousands others displaced. "President T...
South Africa: Response to the violence in Alex: Too little too late
2008-05-22, Issue 373
More than a year ago, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) requested that the Human Rights Commission (HRC) host public hearings to hold leaders accountable for not addressing xenophobia, hate speech, violence, and threat...
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