It only took a few clicks to overturn Maria Mapporidou's life. Shocked by the case of a serial killer who targeted foreign female domestic workers, she decided to organize a small demonstration in Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, via social media. Her appeal was answered by thousands of people, sparking a national debate that had political repercussions.
The "Map of Intolerance," a project by Vox-Italian Observatory on Rights, revealed an increase in hate speech on Twitter in Italy against migrants, Muslims, and Jews.
Migrants, refugees and trafficking victims have become “emblems of exclusion,” Pope Francis said in his message for the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees which will be celebrated on September 29 this year. The attitude is “sounding an alarm bell for the moral decline we will face if we continue to give ground to this throw-away culture'', he added.
An Italian neo-Nazi group has insulted on Facebook Father Giacomo Martino, who is in charge of the Migrants office of Genoa's diocese for his work to help migrants in the port city. The priest responded saying he is ready to meet these "Facebook lions".
As the voices of hatred directed against migrants become louder and uglier in the lead up to European elections, pro-refugee and human rights groups are trying to drown out the haters with facts to counter the anti-migrant commentary. Will it work?
More than half of Germans view asylum-seekers in a negative light, a new study shows. Prejudice against the newcomers has grown even as fewer migrants come to Germany.
Violent, racist attacks on migrants and refugees in Greece have skyrocketed in the last year, according to the findings of a new report released by the Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) organization.
The far-right FPÖ party in Austria has come under fire for a poem by one of their local officials that compared migrants with rats. Kurz and opposition leaders strongly condemned the racist poem. The author of the poem has resigned.
Refugees and migrants in Algeria are facing difficult times. Amid the country's ongoing political transformation, authorities choose to deal with sub-Saharan migrants in the country by deporting them to Niger – into the middle of the desert.
Hate crimes and religious intolerance such as Islamophobia are on the rise in Spain, according to figures from the country's interior ministry and the Movement Against Intolerance. That group said there is also a rise in anti-Spanish sentiment in Catalonia.
Germans with foreign roots are often asked about their heritage. Are these kinds of questions mere curiosity or a form of racism? The issue has sparked a debate over exclusion and identity in the country.
There has been progress on the integration of refugees in Latvia but it is necessary to encourage the reporting of racist hate crimes as well as the integration of vulnerable groups. Recommendations to the Latvian government were included in a report published on Tuesday by the Council of Europe Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI).