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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The growing trend of Islamophobia is fueled by the lack of resolve on part of certain governments to confront hate speech and anti-Muslim media outlets, Iran’s envoy to the UN said, deploring the Western civic groups for promoting a hostile and abusive environment against Muslims.

US Special Envoy Rina Amiri has raised concerns about the escalating attacks against Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan.

The United States on Tuesday condemned the recent attacks in Afghanistan that resulted in civilian casualties, including the attack on the Sikh community in Kabul last week.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has told the UN that it denounces hate speech “of all kinds and forms,” reiterating that its efforts to promote tolerance, as well as combat all aspects of extremism and violence, are continuing worldwide. The Kingdom’s comments were made during a UN General Assembly meeting on Monday at the UN headquarters in New York to mark the first International Day

Rejecting Organisation for Islamic Cooperations (OIC) criticism as "divisive," India has said that efforts to combat religiophobia will not succeed if the rising hatred against Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism is ignored."Its ...

UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday warned against the stigma and discrimination fanned by the Internet and social media. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (AFP Photo / Alberto RAGGIO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "The internet and social media have turbocha

India on Monday condemned in the strongest terms the recent cowardly attack at the Sikh temple in Kabul, Afghanistan and said its time that the UN Member States condemned hatred against non-Abrahamic religions as well.On Saturday, Islamic State attacked Karte Parwan Gurdwara in which two people were killed and several others got injured

In a strongly-worded statement at the United Nations General Assembly, India's Ambassador to United Nations TS Tirumurti has asked the world to "condemn hatred against non-Abrahamic religions as well" and "stop from being selective in combating religiophobias".  The strong statement comes in the back of the Islamic State terror attack on Karte Parwan Gurdwara in Kabul that killed two people, including one Afghan Sikh. This is the third major attack by Islamic State o...

Denouncing the recent "cowardly" and "dastardly" attack on a Sikh gurudwara in Kabul, India on Monday said it is time UN member states condemn hatred against non-Abrahamic religions.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday warned against the stigma and discrimination fanned by the Internet and social media.