Tag: Minorities
Minorities: International Roma Day: Antigypsyism denounced
Minorities International Roma Day: Antigypsyism denounced “We honor the dead and dishonor the living the next day”: antigypsy commissioner Mehmet Daimagüler. photo © Britta Pedersen/dpa During the Nazi era, Sinti…
Religion: Pakistan: Police to protect religious minorities
religion Pakistan: Police to protect religious minorities A paramilitary and police convoy patrols a street in Jaranwala. photo © KM Chaudary/AP/dpa Two Christians are said to have degraded the Holy…
Video: US court overturns college admissions process for minorities
In the opinion of the mostly conservative Supreme Court, the programs known as “affirmative action”, which are intended to promote African Americans or Hispanics, violate the constitution’s principle of equality.…
Uganda: Schulze criticizes new anti-homosexual law – politics
After the government in Uganda introduced a law that explicitly targets the LGBTQ community, German Development Minister Svenja Schulze sharply criticized the government there. “Same-sex love is not a crime,”…
Minorities concern us all: a guest contribution by Stefan Seidler (SSW)
guest post Member of the Bundestag Stefan Seidler Why it is important that Frisian, Danish and Platt is spoken in the Bundestag today Stefan Seidler from the South Schleswig Voters’…
Gender change, menstrual leave… Progress for the rights of women and minorities
The Spanish parliament has taken two big steps in the rights of women and gender minorities. After months of sometimes heated debate, the deputies definitively adopted on Thursday a law…
Minorities: Federal Commissioner complains about racism against Sinti and Roma
minorities Federal commissioner complains about racism against Sinti and Roma Mehmet Daimaguler is the federal government’s Antiziganism Commissioner. photo © Christian Charisius/dpa/Pool/dpa Mehmet Daimaguler has been the federal government’s Antiziganism…
Dealing with the media and minorities: EU Commission is suing Hungary
Status: 07/15/2022 1:09 p.m The EU Commission has filed a lawsuit because it sees violations of minority rights and freedom of the media in Hungary. Prime Minister Orban’s course has…
Karl-Markus Gauss on the Yeniche in Austria – Opinion
At the end of the 1990s, I picked up a poet from the Salzburg main train station that I had never met before. When he got off the train, he…
Nuremberg Human Rights Prize goes to doctor Sayragul Sauytbay – Bavaria
Nuremberg’s Lord Mayor Marcus König (CSU) already suspected it. After the jury voted in favor of awarding the Nuremberg International Human Rights Prize to Sayragul Sauytbay in 2021, he expressed…