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Systemic racism at Australian Universities!
Photo credit: ABC News Findings from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s landmark national Racism@UniStudy highlight that racism is deep.ly embedded across Australian universities and has profound impacts on students and staff. More than 76,000 students and staff from 42 universities across the country participated in the Study. The Study findings reveal particularly high rates of racism are…
Hillary Clinton says migration “went too far”
Photo credit: New York Post Hillary Clinton, while in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, appeared to take a stronger approach to her previous stance on border security. Fox News reports that while participating in a panel titled, “The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values,” she said “There is a legitimate reason to have a…
350,000 march in Toronto to support Iran protests
Photo credit: BBC A rally in North York Saturday that drew an estimated 350,000 people called on the Canadian government to recognize Iran’s exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran’s democratic transition after anti-government protests erupted in Iran at the end of last year. CBC News reports that Aveen Ghahremani, a co-organizer, said the focus…
Tumbler Ridge residents get Canadians’ support!
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told grieving residents of Tumbler Bridge, British Columbia, on Friday that Canadians “will always be with you” at a vigil to mourn victims of one of the country’s worst mass killings. GMA News Online reports that Carney, opposition leaders and provincial officials traveled to the remote town in a show of…
Sudan’s “war on women”
Photo credit: UN Women This article contains references to rape and sexual assault Women and girls are bearing the brunt of Sudan’s nearly three-year-old civil war, facing widespread gender-based violence, displacement and deepening hunger as the conflict continues. SBS News reports that Mariam (not her real name), an 18-year-old, has had her life forever changed…
C-12 could ease some refugee claims says says Diab!
Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s Immigration Minister Lena Diab has said the changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in the government’s border and immigration bill are “better for the applicants,” even as multiple organizations attack the plans. The Canadian Press reports that the bill proposes to bar people that came to Canada more than a year…
EU votes to allow deportation of migrants to “safe” third countries
Photo credit: Aljazeera The European Parliament has passed new legislation letting member states deport migrants to designated “safe” countries outside the EU even if they are not from those nations. ALJazeera reports that European lawmakers approved the measure on Tuesday with a vote of 396-226 as cintre and far-right members backed it. Under the new rules, EU states will be…