Postcards: ‘Corona carriers’ – Stigma halts medication and meet-ups for HIV+ Malawians
CHARLES PENSULO, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the increased challenges facing HIV-positive people in Malawi…
Essay: Is it time to add ‘caste’ as a category in US anti-discrimination laws?
JOSEPH D’SOUZA, founder of Dignity Freedom Network, on why caste discrimination should be covered under US anti-discrimination policies…
Returning home, Venezuelans face accusations of spreading COVID-19
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Venezuelans who fled their homeland’s economic crisis but have been forced to return in desperation are being blamed for the spread of the coronavirus and are being branded bioterrorists, the head of a leading medical group said on Wednesday. More than 70,000 Venezuelans have gone home since April, some walking back […]
Anger in India after lower-caste woman’s body taken off funeral pyre
Lucknow, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation The body of a lower-caste Dalit woman was taken off a funeral pyre in India by a group of upper-caste men who said she could not be cremated on communal land, police said on Tuesday, a case that prompted angry calls for an end to caste discrimination. The funeral was being […]
Pompeo says US should limit which human rights it defends
Washington DC, USAP Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued Thursday for a more limited US view of global human rights advocacy based on the principals laid out by America’s Founding Fathers, a suggestion critics assumed meant stepping away from more modern concepts such as support for women and the LGBQT communities around the world. Pompeo, […]
Postcards: Nigeria’s slave descendants hope race protests help end discrimination
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Nigeria on the hopes of those descended from slaves…
Spat on and abused: Coronavirus fuels racism against India’s north-easterners
ANNIE BANERJI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
US Supreme Court rules that federal law protects LGBTQ persons from employment discrimination
RNS The US Supreme Court ruled that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on Monday in a landmark opinion that makes employment discrimination against LGBTQ persons illegal in all 50 states and has important implications for religious organisations. “An employer who fires an individual merely for […]
Essay: India can take lessons from US in our struggle to end casteism
JOSEPH D’SOUZA, founder of Dignity Freedom Network – which advocates for and delivers humanitarian aid to the marginalised in South Asia, says what he’s seen in the US in recent weeks has given him hope that India can “confront its past and present history of casteism”…
Asian American Christians denounce anti-Asian racism amid coronavirus
RNS The FBI released a warning last week about a potential surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. Michelle Ami Reyes was not surprised. Reyes told Religion News Service that she knows people from her church in Austin, Texas, who have been spit on. She also knows people […]