Author: Priya Saha

More students from ethnic minority backgrounds are studying for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the UK, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) data revealed on Friday.In total, 28 per cent of UK students were from ethnic minority backgrounds in 2020-2021, one percentage point higher than the previous year.The proportion of students from ethnic minority backgrounds on taught masters programmes had also gone up, with 27 per cent of masters students coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) backgrounds, compared with 24 per cent the previous year.In postgraduate research programmes, the proportion of ethnic minority students is just over one…

GENEVA — An annual report from the United Nations labor agency Friday highlighted the work conditions of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang region, noting signs of “coercive measures” that deprive workers of free choice in selecting jobs and calling on Beijing to provide more information about how it’s respecting their rights.The report from an International Labor Organization committee of experts tasked with helping countries uphold their own international commitments emphasized the labor rights aspect of China’s policies in Xinjiang. Advocacy groups and Western governments, among others, have voiced human rights concerns over the treatment of the region’s Muslims.The…

A file photo shows Brentford midfielder Christian Ereksen (L) attending a training session. — Twitter photo Christian Eriksen said he is not afraid on making a return to the demands of professional football, but believes it could still be a ‘few weeks’ before he makes his Brentford debut. The Dane joined the Bees on January’s transfer deadline day after leaving Inter Milan by mutual consent in December. Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest on the field at Euro 2020 in June and has had to have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator fitted. ICDs are not permitted in Italian football, but there is…

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published the findings of a major project that looked at the extent to which the portrayal of race or ethnicity in UK ads might give rise to harm or serious offence, including by reinforcing adverse stereotypes.The ASA says that a key strand of the project involved commissioning extensive qualitative and quantitative research (conducted by COG Research) consisting of 22 focus groups and a survey of over 2,000 people, including over 1,000 Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic (BAME) participants. The research focused on the portrayal and representation of various communities in the United Kingdom…

Data sourceThis study was designed based on secondary data from a nationally representative and unique survey, the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016 (HIES2016). This survey was carried out by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) from April 2016 to March 2017. The final report on this 16th round of HIES described the survey objectives, survey design, sampling technique, survey tools, measuring system, sample size calculation, quality control, and the questionnaire’s new modules [32]. The HIES2016 covered the ever highest number of 46,080 households selected from 2304 primary sampling units (PSUs), from 20 strata under 3 basic localities…

Guided only by Al Qaeda and ISIS, a member of one ‘tanzeem’ can now operate under the banner of another; it’s the interchangeability of ‘tanzeems’ that seem to be bewildering India’s security apparatus Jihadi warfare against India is on the rise. Every time an act of terror takes place in India, the speculation about the identity of the perpetrators ranges from a near-abroad directive to an Islamist terrorist group that has a global identity to one that is home-grown. Although it is the considered opinion of the author that Islam does not promote terror, the unfortunate aspect is that terrorist…

A video of a student in Indian state of Karnataka went viral on social media, where the radical Muslim girl is burqa clad is seen chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogan similarly as those Islamic State (ISIS) brides or female brigades of the radical Islamic jihadist outfits. The entire scenario seems to be pre-planned and most definitely enemies of Hindus, India and agents of jihadist outfits and Pakistani spy agency Inter Service Intelligence must have hands behind such outrageous act. Unfortunately, the conglomerate of Islamist, secularists and communists in India are expressing support towards this radical Muslim female, while in most of…

Credit: Santeri Viinamäki/CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers from five universities are leading a £3.3m project to determine how digitised services impact on minority ethnic groups. The Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online (Prime) project, which is being funded by UK government-backed body UK Research and Innovation, will investigate whether minority groups have been adversely affected by services relating to health, housing and energy moving online as a result of the pandemic. As part of that, the project will look into whether existing inequalities have been reproduced or exacerbated online, as well as whether new discriminatory processes have been created. The team is…

– By Md. Kamruzzaman You can choose your attire and wear what you wish is the basic rule of basic rights granted by democracies and the United Nations. But this basic right has been infringed in many parts of western societies if we talk about Hijab—- a part of Muslim outfits for Muslim women. Now India is leading to deny basic rights of Muslims under BJP government though India considers itself strongest democracy in South Asia. Starting from Udupi, one of three districts in Karnataka India, the way of rage against the subjugation of Indian Muslims spread instantly all over…

Loading“The main concern we have is being a minority religion and Sikhs being easily identifiable because of their appearance and wearing turbans … they are subject to a lot of harassment and bullying and discrimination,” he said.The spokesperson for the Australian National Imams Council, Bilal Rauf, said this week’s debate about exemptions for religious schools was something the council was “less concerned with, provided it doesn’t detract from the core protective provisions”.“The thrust of [the legislation] is safety and wellbeing. For us, the focus on the bill from the perspective of minority faith is really the protection it provides,” he…

Beijing – China’s vast region of Xinjiang has hit the headlines as a center of massive alleged human rights abuses, but Beijing is keen it gets recognition for another reason — as a top winter sports destination.As host of this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, China’s Communist leadership has declared hopes of transforming its nascent winter sports industry into a $157 billion powerhouse, and the troubled region of Xinjiang has been given a starring role.The ballooning sports industry contrasts heavily with claims by rights groups that more than 1 million people in Xinjiang have been detained in internment camps and forced…

Published: February 10, 2022 09:08:53 Hundreds of students in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday chanted slogans and blocked roads in protest of a hijab ban in the southern state of Karnataka, as a row over wearing the head covering in schools intensifies, Reuters reports. The row has drawn in Malala Yousafzai, the campaigner for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived being shot aged 15 by a Taliban gunman in her native Pakistan in 2012, who asked Indian leaders in a tweet to “stop the marginalisation of Muslim women”. Local media reported last week that…