Europe

Members of South Lanarkshire Council have ratified a motion which tries to confront growing Islamophobia as well as other forms of racism and discrimination in the area. At a full council meeting last week, councilor Ali Salamati brought forward a…

Italy, which has vowed a tough line on immigration, took in more than 500 refugees as two charity rescue ships were allowed to dock at ports in the south after several days at sea in bad weather. The Geo Barents…

Thousands of migrants were beaten, humiliated and arbitrarily detained at the EU’s external borders before being illegally pushed back, a new report by a group of human rights organizations has revealed. The Border Violence Monitoring Network has documented hundreds of…

There has been no improvement in the situation of Muslim students grappling with ongoing discrimination in German schools, said a leading human rights official. “We see a need for action in this area and I have not noticed that the…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) condemned the racist practices committed against Muslims in Sweden, expressing its strong condemnation and calling on the authorities to work to reduce these violations and punish the perpetrators. In a statement received by Shia…

The Faculty of International Relations at the Spanish Juan Carlos University, in cooperation with the Aal al-Bayt Foundation, held a symposium entitled ‘The Impact of Arabic Manuscripts on Spanish Culture,’ with the participation of researchers, thinkers and academics. The symposium…

The representative of the Shirazi Religious Authority and President of the International Islamic Council, Sheikh Salih Sibaway, continued his visits to a number of active religious and political figures in the Republic of Kosovo, which received great resonance at the…

The Czech Hedvabna Stezka website, specialized in tourism affairs around the world, published a detailed report highlighting the beauty and spirituality of the holy shrines in Iraq, which Western tourists could not visit before 2003 due to the dictatorial regime.…

During his stay in the Republic of Kosovo, the representative of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in Canada, Sheikh Salih Sibaway, met with two other government officials. Sheikh Sibaway visited and met with Mr. Fadel…

 Three leading human rights organizations in Germany said that the country’s government has not done enough to combat racism and right-wing extremism in the country, calling for measures to be taken to prevent attacks on refugees and Muslims.  This came…