Nicaraguan bishop fasts to protest police harassment
Mexico City, MexicoAP A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua began an “indefinite fast” Friday inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day. Rolando Álvarez, the Bishop of Matagalpa and a fierce critic of President Daniel Ortega’s government, said in a video published by […]
Sarah Everard case pushes Brits to learn how to stop street abuse
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The murder of Sarah Everard has led to a spike in demand for training on how to help if you see someone being harassed on the street, course providers in Britain said, as her killer was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Everard’s abduction from a residential street […]
Violence against Jews in US doubled last year – ADL study
RNS Violent attacks against US Jews doubled in 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s yearly audit of anti-Semitic incidents. Yet the report, published days after a synagogue shooting in Poway, California, that killed one woman and injured three other people, shows that despite the grim spike in violence against Jews, physical assaults remained relatively rare. Anti-Semitic […]
Accused of bullying staff, top brass at Amnesty International offer to quit
Thomson Reuters Foundation Apologising for a workplace climate of bullying, harassment and public humiliation, top officials at the influential rights group Amnesty International offered to resign in a letter made public on Friday. Working conditions at Amnesty were exposed in a review, launched after the suicides of two staff members last year, that found “organizational […]
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE: IN EUROPE, RELIGIOUS MINORITIES FACE MOUNTING HOSTILITY, HARASSMENT
TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, reports on how religious minorities including Muslims and Jews are facing rising antagonism in Europe…