Juan Carlos Zevallos, the Ecuadorean health minister, resigned on Friday, February 26th, after receiving criticism on the mistreatment of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Zevallos stated in a letter posted to Twitter, “Given the current political situation, and to allow the continuity of the National Vaccination Plan, I present to you,
In Pakistan, a college teacher was sentenced to ten years in jail for a supposed blasphemous lecture presented in class on January 8, 2021. According to Aljazeera news, judge Raja Jawad announced the decision based on the charges filed in 2017. Another anti-terrorism court sentenced three to death for social
On Tuesday, December 29, in a Muslim dominated village in the Indore district of India, a clash erupted when right-wing Hindu members stopped in front of a mosque and chanted slogans. They were participating in a rally to collect donations for the construction of Ram Temple in the northern state
A migrant boat travelling from Sub- Sahara Africa to Italy has left 20 dead and 20 missing after the boat sank near Tunisia. According to the BBC news, Tunisian coast guards were able to retrieve bodies off Sfax’s coastal city in central Tunisia on Thursday, with five survivors rescued. It
In November 2020, a mass sharing of photos and a video circulated on social media of a security guard beating a black man to death in a supermarket. The horrendous video showed two white security guards and an employee taking a black man to the parking lot. A conversation, which
On October 2nd, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech on cracking down on radical Islamists and the “Muslim separatism” in France after many attacks had occurred by radical Muslims. Fast forward to Wednesday 18th, President Macron discusses a “long-planned” bill that will be addressed in the French cabinet.
On October 23, 2020, in the Guinea capital, gunfire and protests occurred after results revealed President Alpha Condé, aged 82, won a high stakes election. According to preliminary results from the election commission, Condé won twice as many votes as his rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo. In March, Condé called for
The Uyghur Muslims are a Turk-speaking minority group that originated from the general region of central and east Asia and are recognized native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. Islam arrived in Xinjiang in the 10th century and became the dominant religion in the region. Most Uyghur
On 9 October in Guatemala City and the Teculutan municipality, hundreds of women took to the streets to protest against the two new cases of gender-based violence and femicide that occurred two weeks apart from each other. Laura Daniela Hernandez and Litzy Cordon were the two victims of these femicide
On September 19th, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions against Iran. These sanctions follow Resolution 2231, which endorsed a state participant triggering a “snap back” mechanism from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA). In invoking this clause, the U.S referred to Iran’s “significant non-compliance” with the nuclear deal.
