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Muslim women assaulted, mosque attacked in Canada's London, Winnipeg
28 Sep 2024 01:54 GMT
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned recent Islamophobic attacks in London, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba, as anti-Muslim sentiment continues to escalate in the West amid Israel’s ongoing attacks and provocations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. …
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Burkini ban case tossed back to Belgium by top human rights court
26 Sep 2024 12:39 GMT
… Antwerp.
The European Court of Human Rights referred the case in which … .
Burkinis are worn largely by Muslim women to preserve modesty while upholding …
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Dalit activist Chithralekha, who fought against the Left, dies of cancer
06 Oct 2024 01:24 GMT
… away their female passengers, especially Muslim women, who found comfort and novelty … financial assistance from philanthropists and human rights activists, the harassment did not …
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Meet CAM's four Muslim women standing up against extremism and promoting peace
10 Sep 2024 00:05 GMT
… through interfaith understanding. By highlighting human rights and freedom values while challenging … extremism while upholding values of human rights, freedom, and mutual respect,” … trainer, and lawyer. She founded Muslim Women Speakers to empower women for …
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Muslim women speak out
05 Sep 2024 20:50 GMT
… us.
On September 22, three Muslim women — Anila Ali, Soraya Deen … and head of the Muslim Women’s Speakers Bureau, an … advocate for interfaith alliances, human rights, civil rights, and gender … values.
“We started the Muslim Women Speakers Bureau in 2009, …
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Muslim Women for Harris regroup after disbanding after DNC
03 Sep 2024 09:42 GMT
… advocate for Palestinian human rights. [Getty]
A group called Muslim women for Harris-Walz … is at stake here for Muslim women: our reproductive rights, access to … strategies for advocating for Palestinian human rights in the US political system …
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Taliban’s ‘Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ Law: A Blueprint for Systematic Human Rights Violations
01 Sep 2024 16:15 GMT
… definition of hijab, states: “Muslim women are obliged to conceal their … any authority violates all international human rights documents, including the International … .
While, based on international human rights documents, the Constitution of Afghanistan …
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Tajikistan: Campaign against ‘foreign clothing’ violates human rights
26 Aug 2024 05:08 GMT
… particularly aimed at certain practicing Muslim women, as the authorities have … religious expression. Human rights and clothing Under international human rights law everyone has … with their obligations under international human rights law, repeal the legal …
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Waterloo region has highest rate of police-reported hate crimes in Canada. What police, advocates are saying
05 Oct 2024 09:10 GMT
… outreach with the Coalition of Muslim Women of K-W, said … subjected to targeted attacks and human rights violations because of their ethnicity … of discrimination in the Canada Human Rights Act," Lannois Carroll-Woolery …
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The government risks eroding our human rights in the name of restoring law and order
16 Aug 2024 10:33 GMT
… experiencing.
We heard from Muslim women in Wales fearing wearing the … further policing powers risk human rights violations and may perversely end … are undermining all our human rights, such as freedom of … tapestry and truly protect human rights for all. At a …