Racism in USA: When is a crime of hatred not a hate crime?

The United States brands itself ‘post-racial’ but has never overcome its long history of racism, as the murder of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn shows.

Crucial to Know When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech

Given the recent events at the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters in Paris along with the reactions to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the issue of the line between free speech and hate speech has arisen.

Rev. Harrison on the Importance of Remembering Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda

At St Mary’s Church in High Pavement a service was held to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda. Reverend Chris Harrison, who led the service, said he has been moved by the desire for forgiveness in Rwanda.

The world is not very safe, but not falling apart

It’s a good time to be a pessimist. ISIS, Charlie Hebdo, Crimea, Donetsk, Gaza, Burma, Ebola, school shootings, campus rapes, wife-beating athletes, lethal cops — who can avoid the feeling that things fall apart, the center cannot hold?

As we remember genocide we shouldn’t forget those killed for their religious beliefs

On Tuesday afternoon, 70 candles will be lit across the United Kingdom to mark Holocaust Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Genocide occurs when ‘warning signs’ ignored, action not taken – UN deputy chief

During a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp this week, United Nations Deputy-Secretary-General Jan Eliasson called for reflection on how better to prevent horrific crimes witnessed during the Holocaust and other genocides.

Ever again in the DRC: A long-awaited push to destroy some of Africa’s most notorious killers

THE Rwandan genocide of 1994 killed 800,000 people, most of them ethnic Tutsi, in the space of three months and triggered two successive civil wars in neighbouring Congo. Although these more or less ended in 2003, the genocide’s fallout can still incite violence and rouse armies.

President Kabila’s Will Is Key To The Defeat Of Genocidaire FDLR

No amount of pressure will rout the FDLR from the DR Congo unless Kinshasa stops propping up the genocidal militia and round up the bandits whose whereabouts in the vast country are well known to the Congolese government, analysts say.

In the West, African lives are worthless

On January 7, the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris came under attack by two masked gunmen who killed 12 people, including the editor, seven other employees, two police officers and two other people.

‘Charlie Hebdo cartoons are bigoted’– Mamdani

Blasphemy involves critiquing a tradition from within, of which Islam has had a long and honourable history (Ijtihad), says renowned academic Mahmood Mamdani.