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UN Agent Calls for Local Action on Xenophobia
July 12, 2016
As part of the UN's expanded messaging countering perceived xenophobia and intolerance against migrants, the UN Special Rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, Mutuma Ruteere, has called for local and context-specific government action responding to hate speech and other forms of intolerance rooted in xenophobia.
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UNESCO Counters "Media Myths" on Migrants
July 12, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has created a curriculum for media training institutions seeking to correct "myths" about migrants and refugees entering Western countries and pushing the message that mass migration helps host countries and does not contribute to threats of terrorism.
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EU Hosts Meeting on Migrant Integration, Tolerance
July 12, 2016
First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans recently hosted a meeting with representatives from "philosophical and non-confessional organisations" to discuss how to advance the integration of migrants in European society, as well as "how to address the rise of populism and intolerance" in the EU.
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Clinton State Dept Faces Renewed Criticism on Islamic Blasphemy
July 11, 2016
The US presidential election campaign has revived concerns about how the State Department under Hillary Clinton failed to reject unqualifiedly the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's efforts to use the UN Human Rights Council to advance a global Islamic blasphemy law to criminalize criticism of Islam.
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Fallujah Campaign Raises Questions About Shia Sectarianism
July 11, 2016
The transfer of control of the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State to Iran-backed Shiite militias raises questions about the turnstile of sectarian Islamist extremism that has enabled the proliferation of jihadi groups projecting violence beyond the Mideast.
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