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UNHRC Debate Focuses on Islamophobia
June 29, 2016
At a UN Human Rights Council general debate discussing "the rising trends of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism," multiple governments from the Middle East often implicated in human rights abuses, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt, warned of growing intolerance of and racism against Muslim migrants.
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NGOs Criticize Latest EU Migration Plan
June 29, 2016
Amnesty International and other nongovernmental organizations have called on EU member states to reject the European Commission's proposed policy of working with countries outside the EU to curb migration to Europe, arguing that the policy undermines migrants' human right to asylum.
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Secular Turks Face Islamist Violence, Impunity
June 29, 2016
The Economist reports that an incident in which a group of Islamists violently stormed a record store during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to stop a gathering of young people from drinking outdoors signals the growing intolerance, and lack of police support, non-Islamists encounter in Turkey.
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IS Repeats Tactics in Abducting Kurdish Civilians
June 28, 2016
In a move resembling the civilian abductions and enslavement of Christians and Yazidis by Islamic State forces in Iraqi territory, IS fighters have systematically abducted almost a thousand Kurdish civilians in the battle with the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces for control of the Syrian province of Aleppo.
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IS Attacks Christian Targets Inside Lebanon
June 28, 2016
A sequence of lethal suicide bombings by Islamist extremists believed to be associated with the Islamic State against a Lebanese Christian village along the Syrian border signaled that IS's footprint may be expanding into Lebanon and aimed at eliminating the country's Christians.
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