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 Eliminating racism and disparities in health status resulting from racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance is central to global efforts to advance the right to health and other human rights, a UN expert told the General Assembly on Thursday, October 20th.…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for humanitarian efforts in South Sudan in the face of record-breaking rains and floods for a fourth consecutive year, and the threat of worse to come as the climate crisis accelerates.…

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) continues to expand its aid campaign in Lebanon at a time when the country is grappling with one of the worst economic crises in the world, with more than half of the Lebanese…

Last week, Karbala witnessed the establishment of the first football team for the blind in Iraq. The head of the Iraqi Al-Siraj Association for the Blind, Othman Al-Kinani, said in a press interview that “the first football team for the…

Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank on Thursday October 20th launched the country’s first Islamic Sharia compliant account called ‘Halal’. Prominent Muslim personalities attended the launch event held in the country’s capital Kampala. Percy Lubega, head of business development at the bank,…

The Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced Shia cleric Sheikh Mojtaba Al-Nimr to 12 years in prison without legal justification. A local news agency reported that the military forces had arrested Sheikh Mojtaba Al-Nimr, on June 6, 2021,…

A bizarre new list to categories Muslims based on their countries of origin is at the heart of what critics call an attempt to further discriminate against the community. Two years ago, Denmark’s former Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias…

The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 185,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts), according to Tanada Hirofumi of Waseda…

The Louvre museum in Paris will display dozens of artifacts from Uzbekistan that its experts helped restore, including a fragment of an 8th century Quran, the Uzbek government said on Friday. A total of 70 restored artifacts will be shown…

From the holy city of Karbala to Herat, Afghanistan, the gifts of the Shirazi Religious Authority were delivered to orphaned students on the birth anniversary of the Noble Messenger (peace be upon him and his progeny) and his grandson Imam…