NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — International human rights groups have asked the United Nations to establish an independent investigation into alleged systematic abuses against Muslims in India, citing a pattern of police killings, torture, arbitrary detention and discriminatory use of state power in the country’s most populous state. REDRESS and th...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Hundreds of Muslims emerging from Friday prayers at Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid contributed to a fundraising campaign for a Hindu girl battling a rare genetic disease, offering money toward one of the world’s most expensive medical treatments in a display of interfaith solidarity. The appeal brought the child’s mothe...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Christian family in eastern India says mobs repeatedly attacked their home over three days, assaulted the parents in front of their young children and pressured them to renounce Christianity and embrace Hinduism. The attacks were reported between Sept. 16 and 18 in Ghoraberia Dakshin Bhatora, a village in West [&hel...
NAYPYIDAW, Burma (MNTV) — Rohingya working under institutions controlled by the Arakan Army in western Burma say they are being paid less than some Rakhine workers and denied access to formal roles, adding to concerns over discrimination against the Muslim minority in areas now governed by the armed group. In Buthidaung Township, Rohingya volu...
NEW YORK, United Nations (MNTV) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for stronger international action to protect Palestinians and rebuild Gaza, warning that the continuing crisis in the Middle East is testing the credibility of the international system and the ability of the United Nations to protect civilians. Addressing the 8...
NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – Nvidia is misleading the public about artificial intelligence’s potential climate benefits while its indirect emissions rise sharply, according to a new report by Greenpeace and other environmental groups. The report, published last week and titled NVIDIA’s AI climate hoax, accused the US chip...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — An Indian opposition lawmaker has appealed to the United Nations over alleged religious discrimination against senior Muslim civil servants, accusing authorities of repeatedly excluding Muslim officials from government meetings attended by Home Minister Amit Shah. Trinamool Congress lawmaker Mahua Moitra wrote to UN S...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — A 50-year-old man has been charged over a torrent of racist and Islamophobic abuse directed at a 13-year-old Muslim girl on a Sydney bus, an attack Australia’s anti-Islamophobia envoy said reflected a disturbing trend of younger victims, ABC News reported. The man was arrested at a home in Greenacre, in Sydney&...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Academic freedom in India is “severely restricted,” with scholars and students facing growing constraints on teaching, research, political expression and campus protests, according to a new international report that documents cases including suspension of a professor over an exam question on atrocities against Muslims...
NAYPYIDAW, Burma (MNTV) — More than 30,000 people displaced by fighting in western Burma’s Rakhine State are facing severe food shortages and inadequate healthcare as military blockades and continuing clashes prevent humanitarian supplies from reaching communities in Kyaukphyu District. About 5,100 displaced people sheltering across Kyaukphyu ...
