ANNIVERSARY: ONE YEAR AFTER MOSQUE MASSACRE, NEW ZEALAND IS FIGHTING RISING HATE CRIME
PRAVEEN MENON, of Reuters, reports from New Zealand ahead of the 15th March anniversary…
Jews the target of overwhelming number of religious-based hate crimes in US, says FBI
RNS Newly released FBI data shows that Jews and Jewish institutions were the overwhelming target of religion-based hate crimes in the United States last year. The 2018 Hate Crime Statistics reported 7,120 total hate crimes last year, compared to 7,175 in 2017, a decline of less than one per cent. Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted […]
US civil rights advocates, victims’ families urge support for new hate crime reporting bill
RNS Nearly three years ago, Khalid Jabara, an immigrant from Lebanon, died on his own doorstep in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when his neighbour gunned him down. One year later on the same day of the month – 12th August – a woman named Heather Heyer was struck and killed by a white supremacist driving a car after […]
Quick facts – Murders of transgender people rising worldwide, say activists
Thomson Reuters Foundation Transgender people are suffering a spiral of “horrifying” violence worldwide, activists said ahead of an annual day of remembrance for victims on Tuesday aimed at raising awareness of transphobic hate crimes. Activists have identified at least 369 reports of trans people killed within the last 12 months, but said the true number […]