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Sweeping legislation on racial profiling with ‘Floyd’ bill By AFP Published: Mar 04, 2021 04:48 PM
People attend a protest outside the New York City Hall in New York, the United States, June 30, 2020. Protests following the death of black man George Floyd have continued in New York City for more than a month. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)A sweeping police reform package that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday, five days before the trial of a white officer charged with murdering African-American George Floyd.
The bill is named after Floyd, who died on May 25, 2020, at age 46 when then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on the victim s neck for more than eight minutes.
Mar. 3, 2021
The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for coverage much closer to home.
What’s causing their biggest dispute in years?
It’s the broadcast of a debate over whether Jews should be considered an ethnic minority a panel discussion featuring four non-Jewish panelists and a Jewish commenter as a guest.
Monday’s discussion touched raw nerves in the organized community, where many Jews feel marginalized by allegedly hostile media treatment and the rise of anti-Semitism both from the far right and at the heart of the Labour Party.
BEIJING (Global Times): China is deeply concerned about the continuing discrimination against Asian people including overseas Chinese in Australia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday (March 3), urging Australia to face the problem and take concrete measures to strengthen education of citizens.
The discrimination against Chinese in Australia has posed a serious threat to the safety and legitimate rights of Chinese people in the country, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at Wednesday s (March 3) media briefing.
We hope Australia will face up to the problem, take concrete measures to strengthen education of its citizens and properly resolve the issues of racism and discrimination and protect the safety and legitimate rights of Chinese in Australia, Wang said.
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March 1, 2021
KARACHI : A former leader of the MQM and now Chairman of the Pak Sarzameen Party, Syed Mustafa Kamal, on Sunday said that restoration of peace in Karachi in the aftermath of a security operation is more of an embarrassment for the patriotic Pakistanis.
Addressing a Pashtun gathering at the Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth on Sunday, the PSP leader said the larger attendance of the Pashtun community in the rally underscores his conviction that Karachi does not belong to any ethnic or national group and thereby there is no room for narrow ethnic based politics.
He said that the PSP’s political-social model offers solution to the problems confronted by all of those living in the metropolis. “The job of MNAs and MPAs is to legislate and not to build roads. I will bring up the youth of Sohrab Goth to a level where they themselves will resolve the issues of Sohrab Goth,” he said.