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Police enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across Europe have disproportionately targeted ethnic minority and marginalized groups with violence, discriminatory identity checks, forced quarantines and fines, Amnesty International said in a new report – Policing the Pandemic – Human rights violations in the enforcement of COVID-19 measures in Europe. Policing the pandemiccovers 12 European countries and exposes a disturbing pattern […]
UPDATE: (14 May 2021): After this press release was issued, Amnesty International learned that the last helicopter rescue flight from the Amarula hotel, which carried the hotel manager and his two German Shepherd dogs, among others, was conducted by a private charter company rather than the private military company that conducted the other rescue flights. […]
Updated Nov. 26, 2023 6:11 pm ET The Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East has sparked concerns about religious discrimination in the U.S., creating new fissures in a divided American electorate that could help shape next year’s presidential election.
Farmers who believe they experienced discrimination by the Department of Agriculture . . .
A Black police officer in New Jersey who alleges she was disciplined after she wore her hair in a traditional African hairstyle has sued the township where she works and one of her superiors, alleging that she was discriminated against for wearing a natural hairstyle. Chian Weekes-Rivera, a veteran of the police department in Maplewood […]
A Black police officer in New Jersey who alleges she was disciplined after she wore her hair in a traditional African hairstyle has sued the township where she works and one of her superiors, alleging that she was discriminated against for wearing a natural hairstyle. Chian Weekes-Rivera, a veteran of the police department in Maplewood […]
FILE PHOTO: A sign sits in the north entrance plaza at United Nations headquarters during the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly high-level debate in New York, U.S., Sept. 21, 2020. Mike Segar/Reuters UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. body formed to promote respect for and protect people of African descent around the world says in its first report that they continue “to be victims of systemic racial discrimination and racialized attacks” and calls for reparations. The report, which was delivered to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, […]
The U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday that Stamford-based Pitney Bowes has agreed to pay about $1.6 million to resolve claims that it discriminated against white, Black and Hispanic job applicants based on statistical analyses by the government of the rates at which the company hired employees of different ethnicities. The department said that a […]
VERONA, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has entered into a conciliation agreement with Daikin Industries to resolve alleged race-based hiring discrimination affecting Black applicants at its Verona facility. Pursuant to the agreement, Daikin Industries will pay $100,000 in back wages and interest to 98 Black applicants. Daikin will also extend three job offers […]