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Racism & xenophobia
RSS FeedSouth Africa: We want to be citizens not charities
2006-06-28, Issue 261
While South African law guarantees refugees and asylum seekers the right to work, many employers discriminate against them. In part this is a reflection of the xenophobic attitudes of many South Africans, which Majodina ascribes to a complex mix of h...
Spain: African migrants reawaken ancient prejudices in Spain
2006-06-26, Issue 261
Spanish TV cameras frequently capture images of undocumented African immigrants flocking to the Canary Islands. The sight of black masses disembarking on the Canaries reawakens centuries-old racial prejudice, says historian Antumi Toasije, cultural c...
DRC: First vote for free speech
2006-06-20, Issue 260
Official campaigning starts in two weeks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But excitement at the symbolic arrival of ballot papers from South Africa has been tempered with concern about xenophobia and hate speech from some politicians, reports the...
Global: Fifa to use World Cup to fight racism
2006-06-12, Issue 259
Soccer has struggled for years to rid itself of racism. For this World Cup the governing body of the world's sport is making harmony a central theme. "Football, like most sports, is combative - you play to win. But it shouldn't have anything to do wi...
South Africa: Deputy Major plans legal action for racism
2006-06-14, Issue 259
Stilbaai deputy mayor Lorna Scott, victim of a string of racist attacks, says she is planning to take "legal action" over the harassment. Speaking at a media briefing in Cape Town with members of the African National Congress' Western Cape executive,...
UK: Muslims protest over terror raid
2006-06-14, Issue 259
Muslims have protested outside Scotland Yard against the tactics used by police in an anti-terror raid in east London. Islamic Human Rights Commission chairman Massoud Shajareh told BBC News: "The papers were talking about [how] they became very Isla...
South Africa: Post-colonial blacks
2006-06-15, Issue 259
"There is a tendency by those who write books and essays for leading journals to downplay the seriousness of today's racial oppression in South Africa," writes Mandisa Majuva in an article posted on www.zmag.org "This i...
Côte d'Ivoire: Elephants to unite war-divided Côte d'Ivoire
2006-06-05, Issue 258
On match days, Bouake's usually bustling central market is empty. Twenty-eight-year-old Mamadou Kone sells shoes there, and though he was born just a few hundred metres away in the city's hospital, he is still referred to teasingly as the Guinean, th...
Global: World Cup plans anti-racism defense
2006-06-05, Issue 258
International soccer has been plagued for years by violence among fans, including racial incidents. But FIFA, soccer's world governing body, which is based in Zurich, said there had been a recent surge in discriminatory behavior toward blacks by fans...
Global: Racism fears dog World Cup build-up
2006-05-31, Issue 257
While anti-racism campaigners have warned black and Asian fans against visiting parts of Berlin and the former communist east Germany, politicians have leapt to reassure non-white visitors they will be safe. Concerns have been heightened in recent we...
Global: MDGs must incorporate indigenous people's interests
2006-05-30, Issue 257
At the close of a major United Nations meeting in New York Friday, indigenous leaders urged the world's developed countries to take into account the concerns of native communities living within their borders while implementing the Millennium Developm...
Global: The fear haunting Europe
2006-05-31, Issue 257
In the wake of terrorism and a rise in fear of the unknown, a tide of repressive immigration policies is passing through Europe. Discrimination is common, according to the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). Skin colour is a r...
South Africa: Racism under the colour of law enforcement
2006-05-31, Issue 257
Every week in SA, police target black people whom they perceive to be foreigners for harassment. The practice has become so prevalent that it has become the subject of a number of studies by various human rights bodies....
Global: Black academics protest racism
2006-05-24, Issue 256
The victimisation of a black lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University over her use of pioneering teaching methods has united black academics across the country in her defence and reignited their determination to fight racism in higher education (HE). ...
Global: Stocktaking on efforts to combat racism on the Internet
2006-05-17, Issue 255
A study by the Simon Wiesenthal Center entitled "Digital Terrorism & Hate 2005" reported a 25% annual increase in websites promoting racial hatred and violence, which indicates that the problem of racism and xenophobia is growing over the Internet. T...
Global: UN indigenous peoples session
2006-05-17, Issue 255
The Fifth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues will take place from 15 to 26 May 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. The theme of the fifth session of the Permanent Forum is The Millennium Development Goals and indige...
Global: Ethnic hatred in Russia on the rise
2006-05-10, Issue 254
Racial hatred and violence is growing in Russia, analysts say. “Ethnic hatred, xenophobia and violence are on the rise in Russia - so is the activity of skinheads towards non-Russians, those who do not look Slavic. Most sociological surveys confirm t...
Russia: Racism and xenophobia rife in Russian society
2006-05-04, Issue 253
Racially-motivated killings, beatings and discrimination are on the increase in the Russian Federation, according to a new report published today (May 4). The government of the country, currently chairing the Group of the eight most-industrialized co...
Nigeria: Discrimination against ‘non-indigenes’ threatens civil peace
2006-04-25, Issue 252
The Nigerian government must take the lead in ending discrimination against millions of "non-indigenes" - citizens who cannot show that their family roots are native to the community in which they live - in part to better secure the country's increas...
Namibia: San survive millennia, but perhaps not modernity
2006-04-26, Issue 252
"They have no voice, no jobs; poverty is excruciating, slavery is there -- because they work for others for nothing, like in only getting a plate of food or tombo (traditional beer). They are just suffering." This was the sobering assessment of Namib...
Ethiopia: 'Racist' assault alarms Germans
2006-04-18, Issue 251
A German man of Ethiopian origin is fighting for his life after being badly beaten, in what police described as a racist attack. The 37-year-old engineer suffered extensive skull and rib injuries in the attack by two men in Potsdam, eastern Germany,...
Africa: Minorities Under Siege
2006-04-20, Issue 251
“In every world region, minorities and indigenous peoples have been excluded, repressed and, in many cases, killed by their governments," said Mark Lattimer, executive director of the nongovernmental organisation Minority Rights Group International (...
Global: African student gunned down in Russia
2006-04-13, Issue 250
An African student was fatally shot last Friday with a weapon bearing a swastika symbol, raising the hate crime murder toll in St. Petersburg to six in seven months. The fifth year student of the St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications,...
Russia: Schoolgirl stabbed in hate crime
2006-04-03, Issue 249
A nine-year-old African-Russian girl was hospitalized with stab wounds following an attack by a group of suspected teenagers in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday, two days after the controversial acquittal of the defendants in the trial for the mur...
South Africa: Why Israeli Apartheid and South African Apartheid are so similar
2006-03-29, Issue 248
Israel is rapidly constructing a parallel network of West Bank roads for Palestinians, who are barred from using the many existing (and superior) routes reserved for Jews only. B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, describes this system as bearin...
Global: Being a black woman in the world
2006-03-29, Issue 248
The following text is the prepared speech of Winnie Madikezela Mandela for her March 4 address to V103's Expo for Today's Black Woman held in Chicago, Illinois. "I feel greatly honored to have been invited to this august gathering. In his address to ...
Global: Ethnic audit of PRSPs and their effect on indigenous peoples
2006-03-20, Issue 247
Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about 5 per cent of the world's population, but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The incidence of extreme poverty is higher among them than among other social groups and they generally benefit much less th...
Global: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
2006-03-22, Issue 247
Sometimes, racist people commit acts which are as stupid as they are outrageous. However, violent forms of racism and discrimination is only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface of apparent equality, people belonging to ethnic, religious, sexu...
Botswana: Government faces race criticism
2006-03-14, Issue 246
The delegation of the Botswana government is facing tough questions at the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights on its record of racial discrimination. In particular, the forced relocation of the indigenous San people (also known as Bushmen...
Global: Racism on rise around the world, UN expert warns
2006-03-08, Issue 245
Racism and racial discrimination are on the upswing and becoming widespread throughout the world, with the current global situation confirming the worst expectations that man's worst tendencies are created in the womb, a United Nations expert on raci...
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