Recently, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC or Red Cross) has been accused of facilitating payments to accused terrorists captured and held by Israel in the ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict. The ICRC denies this claim. The ICRC has a blemished record, disturbingly far from its professed humanitarian mandate. A journalistic investigation conducted by ProPublica [...]
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Biden signs $1.2T US government appropriations bill that includes UNRWA funding ban
US President Joe Biden signed HB 2882, called the “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024,” on Saturday. This act provides federal government funding through September 2024 and includes a provision that prohibits funds from being used for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The act also cuts funding to the UN International [...]
Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki told the Public Petitions Committee of the National Assembly that the National Security Council (NSC) is coping with the threats posed by social media platforms particularly the app TikTok. TikTok is a short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance, rapidly gaining worldwide popularity in recent years. [...]
Russia permanently banned 56 Canadian citizens from entering the Russian Federation on Saturday. The decision took place in response to the Canadian government’s sanctions against Russian stakeholders. On March 3, 2024, Canada approved new sanctions against Russia over the death of Alexei Navalny in a penal colony in Siberia on February 16, 2024. The sanctions [...]
Canada announces decrease in issuance of temporary immigration visas
Canada announced Thursday it will decrease temporary immigration due to concerns over a resource shortage. Immigration Minister, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller stated in a press conference: Recently, Canada’s temporary resident volume has increased significantly, now reaching up to 6.2% of our population in 2023. Therefore, in our level planning we’ll be including a target [...]
Quebec Court of Appeal rules to allow asylum seekers to temporarily receive subsidized child care
The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday against the province’s request to deny asylum seekers subsidized child care as they wait for their case to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. The judgment arose after the Quebec government requested that the court suspend its February 7th decision, which proclaimed that Section 3 [...]
Canada Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of school that prohibited Muslim students from praying
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday declined to hear the appeal of a school that was found to be discriminating against its Muslim students by denying them access to prayer space. Webber Academy, a private school in Calgary, prohibited two Muslim students from publicly praying on campus, claiming that providing prayer space violated the school’s secular [...]
Iowa lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to enter the state after being deported or denied entry into the US. The passage puts the midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing state immigration laws that operate independently of the federal immigration system, meaning they are not directly [...]
Social Media Giants Must Combat Harassment Against Afghan Women
When one creates a social media account, one is bound to the host platform’s privacy policies and community guidelines. Each user knows that should they violate these rules, they risk losing their account. How, then, have so many people managed to use social media to exacerbate the plights of Afghan women and girls? As I [...]
Toronto police chief reports an increase in hate crimes following Israel-Palestine conflict
Toronto’s chief of police, Myron Demkiw, held a press conference on Monday to provide updated information about the state of hate crimes in the city. During the press release, Demkiw revealed that compared to last year during the same period, reported hate crimes have increased by 93 percent. He attributed this spike in increase to [...]