How Algorithms Can Reinforce and Amplify Society's Prejudices
By Marion Bordier November 9, 2026 Credit: Pexels African-American English being disproportionately associated with negative stereotypes, facial recognition systems making more errors when identifying people of colour, and AI assistants offering safety advice simply because you mention being with an Algerian or Lebanese person: these examples raise a troubling question. Can artificial intelligence reproduce racial prejudice while presenting itself as neutral? Speaking to Belg
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The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller, Trump's shadow The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller The New York Times November 8, 2026 By Jason Zengerle On Friday, President Trump announced that Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. This profile, published in July 2025, charted his path to power. Stephen Miller was livid. It was a couple of months after Donald Trump’s inauguration, and Mr. Miller, a senior White House adviser, believed that the federal government was no
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Country report: Syria
September, 2026 By: Burit Boonpirom © Timothy A Clary, AFP Syria has long struggled with instability driven by extremism and sectarian violence. From 1970 to 2024, Syria was ruled by a regime dominated by a religious minority group known as the Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam. This minority-led regime, run by the dictatorship of Hafez al-Assad and later his son Bashar al-Assad, was characterized by mass killings and repression of the population, laying the groundwork for
Genocide Watch
Oct 30
Togo Country Report - April 2026
Togo has faced political crisis since its controversial 2024 constitutional reform, which the opposition widely views as President Faure Gnassingbé’s attempt to extend his 20-year rule. In May 2025, Gnassingbé assumed the post of President of the Council of Ministers without a popular vote.
Genocide Watch
Oct 26
North Korea resumes propaganda; moves troops to DMZ
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, at DMZ border October 21, 2026. credit: Korea Times CBS News October 22, 2026 By: Ann Coren Tension on the Korean Peninsula is once again ratcheting up, with calls for immediate talks between North and South Korea to avert an accidental military confrontation. It follows hostile back-to-back statements from Kim Yo Jung – the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – who said loudspeakers broadcasting anti-
CBS News
Oct 23
Special Report: Discrimination Against Roma in the Yugoslavia Successor States
By Senan Monks October 19, 2026 UN Refugee Camp in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo, where hundreds of Roma people were affected by lead poisoning. Image by European Roma Rights Centre Roma are an ethnic group believed to have first arrived in the lands of the former Yugoslavia in the late medieval period. Roma communities in the Yugoslavia successor states are not homogeneous and come from a variety of cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions. However, they all face comparab
Genocide Watch
Oct 19
Anti-Indian racism has been surging in right-wing media
By Sage Hodil & Ben Van Bloem October 9, 2026 Credit: Media Matters Right-wing media’s racist attacks and ethnic slurs directed at Indians, other South Asians, and South Asian Americans have surged over the past year, in part fueled by conservative infighting over the H-1B visa program and a handful of viral posts. Commentators in the conservative media ecosystem have used anti-Indian slurs and characterized the presence of Indian immigrants as “harmful to America.” Some of t
Media Matters
Oct 15
NEW POLL: Two-Thirds of Voters Back the U.S. Refugee Program
By The Refugee Advocacy Lab Majorities of Democrats (78%), Independents (66%), and Republicans (55%) say the U.S. should have a refugee program. Voters also oppose the administration's escalating immigration enforcement and overwhelmingly agree (76%) on a path to citizenship for immigrants. WASHINGTON, D.C. — New polling from Data for Progress, the Refugee Advocacy Lab, and Refugees International finds that voters across party lines still strongly support the U.S. refugee pro
Refugee Advocacy Lab
Oct 7
West Bank Raids Spread as Over 6,500 Palestinians Displaced
By Palestine Chronicle Staff October 1, 2026 Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: via QNN) Israeli occupation forces raided Palestinian communities across the West Bank as settler attacks continued, with thousands displaced since 2023, OCHA reported. Key Developments Israeli occupation forces searched homes across the West Bank early Thursday, detained a Palestinian in Tammun and seized a vehicle in Tuqu’. Settlers stole Palestini
Morocco: Surveillance used to silence journalists and activists
Amnesty International 1 October 2026 Credit: Amnesty International Ex-security agent provides rare first-hand insight into how Morocco surveillance system works from the inside. Targets secretly recorded in detention, offices, homes, cars and airports Intelligence services conspired with phone shop owners to sell phones pre-infected with spyware Authorities in Morocco operate an expansive and vast surveillance apparatus that combines digital and analogue tools to track, mo
Rohingya Schools In Malaysia Close Amid Online Hate Speech
By Rozanna Latiff July 27, 2026 Credit: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) - Nur is a 12-year-old Rohingya Muslim refugee in Malaysia who has stopped going to school since June, after two men threatened to beat her on her way to class. "Why do you want to go to school? Do you want to take over our country?" they asked, according to Nur, whose family declined use of her full name for fear of repercussion. Nur is just one of many Rohingya children to face harassme
Reuters
Sep 29
UN human rights chief alarmed over attacks on LGBTQ rights
By Michael K. Lavers 22 September 2026 Volker Türk on Monday spoke at UN LGBTI Core Group event. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk (Screen capture via UN Human Rights Council/YouTube) UNITED NATIONS — U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Monday said there is a “comprehensive onslaught” against LGBTQ and intersex rights around the world. “We know that progress for human rights has never been linear … but today’s backlash is deep and it is co
Washington Blade
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