Wishma was the 18th foreigner to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007, according to media reports. The country has one of the lowest refugee acceptance rates in the world and her death has increased pressure on officials to reform how people held in such centres are treated.She lost 20kg (44 pounds) in detention due…
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait has suspended all new visas for Philippine nationals indefinitely, the interior ministry confirmed this week, in an escalation of a row between the oil-rich Gulf state and Manila over worker protections and employer rights.Philippine nationals make up around 6% of Kuwait’s 4.7 million population, government data shows. Kuwaitis make up 32%.The…
Last week author Maggie Tokuda-Hall revealed that Scholastic required her to omit all mentions of racism in her book to complete a licensing deal for her (and Yas Imamura’s) book, Love in the Library. A Scholastic license deal is a big freaking deal as they are the world’s biggest children’s book publisher/distributor.Surface-level, this was a…
Des représentants de la société civile ont organisé une conférence de presse hier au Palais du peuple pour dénoncer l’opération «Wuambushu» à Mayotte. Le Comité Maore a appelé les responsables étatiques à se joindre à leur cause pour empêcher cette opération. La présidente de l’Ong Hifadhu a mis l’accent sur « les abus perpétrés à…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpoQN2S9i7M&ab_channel=iilluminaughtii[/embed] Tyson meat says they are committed to attracting and rewarding the best people in the food industry. But, actions speak louder than words and Tyson’s actions scream that they are lying. Over the years they have been accused of running factories ripe with danger and even employing child labor. Their response to Covid-19 was…
At a time when serious child labor violations are on the rise in hazardous meatpacking and manufacturing jobs, several state legislatures are weakening—or threatening to weaken—child labor protections. The trend reflects a coordinated multi-industry push to expand employer access to low-wage labor and weaken state child labor laws in ways that contradict federal protections, in…
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.
Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States. But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.Tensions within the community were visible at Seattle…
CCTV footage released by the Crown Prosecution Office shows the moment Andrew Innes purchases a hammer at a B&Q.
In a joint statement, they said: ‘Bennylyn had bright ideas and big dreams. She bravely left home to seek a better future in a country far away. Instead, she found the worst cruelty we could ever imagine at the hands of someone she trusted,” they said in a joint statement on Monday. ‘We shall be…
Rose City Nationalists started in the spring / summer of 2022 as a small group of white supremacists. They are antisemitic, openly racist, misogynist, advocate for the genocide of queer and trans individuals, and embrace Nazi imagery and ideology. The group models themselves as an “active club” that focuses on hyper-masculinity, a style popularized by…
A woman who was held in immigration detention for six months in 2020 at a Georgia federal facility gave emotional testimony at a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee hearing. She detailed and accused a doctor of performing gynecological procedures against her will. Her complaint and others along with a 2020 whistleblower account sparked lawsuits and several…
