World news about “Racism” published by euronews.
Italy: Twitter rape insult A local councillor has sparked outrage in Italy as she called for the country’s first black minister to be raped. Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge was… 14/06/2013
Anti-Muslim protests over murdered British soldier Up to a thousand supporters of the far-right English Defence League have been protesting over the murder of a British solider in London last week. In a… 27/05/2013
Racial storm in France over viral anti-gay marriage posterA poster calling for an anti-gay rights demonstration in Paris has been attacked as being racist after going viral overnight in the French Twittersphere… 07/05/2013
Suspected neo-Nazi goes on trial over string of racist murders A woman accused of being a neo-Nazi has gone on trial in Munich over a series of racist murders that exposed serious failings in Germany’s security… 06/05/2013
Greeks against racist beatings Every year, thousands of asylum seekers arrive in Greece in a bid to build new lives but the reality that greets them is often as stark as the one they have… 06/05/2013
Jewish congress held in Hungary amid concerns over rise in anti-Semitism The World Jewish Congress (WJC) will begin its four-yearly Plenary Assembly in Budapest today. The meeting – in which Jewish people gather from around the… 05/05/2013
Jobbik leads anti-Jewish rally in Budapest on eve of World Jewish Congress Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party organised Saturday’s anti-Jewish rally in Budapest on the eve of the meeting of the World Jewish Congress in the… 04/05/2013
Italy’s first black minister brushes off racism Italy’s first black minister, Cecile Kyenge, has said the country is not particularly racist despite receiving a barrage of racist and sexist insults since… 04/05/2013
Hungary’s far-right plays with fire “Death to the Jews!” “Auschwitz isn’t this way!” “We’re taking you to a free campsite, with heating!” “No return ticket!” Slogans like these were heard in… 26/04/2013
Racism on the rise in recession hit Greece Racism is increasing in Greece according to studies by a group of human rights organisations. Violence against immigrants, exploitation and discrimination… 25/04/2013
Film tribute to civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson Chadwick Boseman plays Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the American Major League Baseball, in the film 42 – a reference to his shirt… 12/04/2013
Turkey’s foreign minister wades into court trial spat Turkey’s foreign minister has called his counterpart in Germany, after a spat erupted over media access to a trial of suspected neo-Nazis – who were allegedly… 31/03/2013
Funding dissent In this edition of The Network, we look at the question of cutting funding to the EU’s far-right groups accused of failing to observe fundamental … 22/03/2013
Greek far-right candidate’s threat to foreigners caught on tapeGreek police have sent to the prosecutor’s office a video showing the extreme right-wing party Golden Dawn’s parliamentary candidate Alexandros Plomaritis… 07/03/2013
They only see my skin colour It is a problem many people face on a daily basis: being judged, badly treated, or even worse, just because of the colour of their skin. There are laws… 18/02/2013
Hate speech proves difficult to tacklePart of the ongoing concern about racism and xenophobia in Europe is the phenomenon of hate speech, a complex issue that has been difficult for politicians to… 18/02/2013
Right wing, right here, right now Is a new form of right-wing politics sweeping Europe? Beyond terrorist attacks and lone wolves like Norway’s Anders Bering Brevik, support for extreme… 13/02/2013
Hulk, Russia and racism It was at London’s Wembley Stadium that the Brazilian national football team lost the Olympic final against Mexico last August. The only trophy in world… 08/02/2013
Fifa clamp down on racism Fifa’s decision to ban Hungary fans from their country’s all-important World Cup qualifying game against Romania in March has been met with mixed… 09/01/2013
Racist chants get Milan walking AC Milan walked off the pitch during a friendly match with a lower league side on Thursday due to racist chants. Four Milan players including Kevin Prince… 03/01/2013
Sudanese migrant shows scars in GreeceA migrant from Sudan shows scars he says were inflicted when he was attacked by a group of black-shirted men holding Greek flags and shouting “Go home black”… 07/12/2012
Serbian FA bans two international players The Football Association of Serbia has banned two players and two members of their coaching staff following a melee on the pitch at the end of an U21… 26/10/2012
Terry banned for four matches Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four domestic matches after being found guilty by the country’s football association of racial abuse. Terry… 27/09/2012
UEFA begin Lazio investigation European footballs governing body UEFA have begun an investigation into the improper conduct of Lazio fans during the club’s Europa League game at Tottenham… 22/09/2012
Utøya massacre survivor: ‘I grew up in one hour’ Ida Sandvik Knudsen is a survivor of the Utøya massacre, in Norway, where Ander Behring Breivik killed 77 people in a gun and bomb attack last summer… 26/07/2012
Euro 2012: England fans hold Sol Campbell protest Hundreds of English fans gathered in the city centre of Donetsk on Tuesday and paraded through the streets with a coffin in protest at comments made by former… 19/06/2012
Australia: Dreamtime in Down Town The Aboriginal communities of Australia are caught in a vortex of the ancient and modern. A modern world full of racism, unemployment, poor education and… 13/06/2012
Aboriginal souls in an age of modernityQantas claims to be the “spirit of Australia,” it’s a smart piece of advertising, but the spirit we encountered in Australia was of a more ancient kind, the… 13/06/2012
Ukraine gives racism the red card Lviv, one of Ukraine’s host-cities for Euro 2012, is well-known for its architectural beauty, cosy cafes and authentic coffee. Supporters of the local… 12/06/2012
EURO 2012: Zero tolerance on racism The Polish and Ukrainian governments have worked hard to try to dispel any fears of racism in the build up to the tournament. But following the first racist… 08/06/2012
Dutch squad racially abused in Poland With only a few hours to go before the European Championships kick off in Poland, the tournament was plunged into its first racism controversy after black… 08/06/2012
EURO 2012: Ready for the show After Five years of preparations it’s showtime in Poland and Ukraine where on Friday the 14th edition of the European Championships begin. Proceedings will… 08/06/2012
City complain over racist taunts Premier League side Manchester City have lodged an official complaint with European football’s governing body after Italian international Mario Balotelli… 18/02/2012
Terry stripped of England captaincy John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy for a second time in his career on Friday. The decision to relieve the England defender of his duties as… 04/02/2012
More racial abuse claims at Liverpool English Premier League club Liverpool and Merseyside Police are investigating alleged racial abuse from fans towards Oldham Athletic defender Tom… 07/01/2012
Suarez backed by international captain The headlines on Luis Suarez have gripped England, sparking reaction beyond the family of football fans. There has been outrage in some quarters that he… 21/12/2011
England’s John Terry to face criminal racial abuse charges England football captain John Terry is to face criminal charges over allegations that he racially abused the Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand… 21/12/2011
Eight-match ban for Suarez’ racial slur Liverpool Football Club’s star striker Luis Suarez has been banned for eight matches after being found guilty by the English Football Association of racially… 20/12/2011
Close up: the rise of Europe’s far-right Is Europe taking the threat of right-wing extremism seriously enough? Anders Breivik’s killing spree in Norway in July and the recent discovery that neo-Nazis… 08/12/2011
John Terry questioned by police England international John Terry has been questioned in relation to allegations that he racially abused Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand. The… 29/11/2011
‘Russia for Russians’ strikes electoral chord The demonstrators who paraded in Moscow on November 4 this year are being portrayed as a threat to the Russian authorities in the run-up to parliamentary… 29/11/2011
Blatter – Racism row now ‘closed’ Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday he had apologised enough for his recent comments on racism in football. Speaking at a news conference in… 23/11/2011
Sepp Blatter apologises FIFA President Sepp Blatter has issued a public apology for his recent comments on racism in football. The 75-year-old had said in interviews earlier this… 18/11/2011
Finland’s far-right fancy ‘‘Nationalist, anti-immigration and strongly euro-sceptic. The True Finn party made an historic breakthrough in Finland’s recent elections. What are the… 06/05/2011
Back in the Day: riots erupt in L.A.April 29, 1992. Four white Los Angeles police officers are acquitted by a jury of assaulting black motorist Rodney King after a high-speed car chase a year… 28/04/2011
How can we build a more tolerant Europe? Patricia from Lyon asks: “The revolutions currently taking place in the Arab world demonstrate a thirst for democracy, but for Europeans the worry is the… 01/04/2011
Football For All Sport, art and theatre are proven methods to lessen sectarian tensions. What sort of programmes is the European Union financing to reduce sectarianism? 03/01/2011
Police in horror drag death arrestedEight South African police officers have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a taxi driver who was dragged behind a police… 01/03/2013
South African police brutality caught on cameraThere has been shock in South Africa at amateur footage shows a man being tied to the back of a police van and dragged down the street. It is claimed that the… 28/02/2013
Protests in Athens sparked by racist killingThousands of anti-racism protesters have rallied in the streets of the Greek capital. The march follows the stabbing of 27-year old Pakistani Shehzad… 20/01/2013
Athens anti-racist rallyHundreds of protesters from across Europe held a rally on Saturday to demonstrate against racist attacks. Violence against immigrants has increased over the… 16/12/2012
Russian court brands Pussy Riot video “extremist”A Russian court has ruled video footage of punk group Pussy Riot is “extremist” and called for it to be removed from websites. The decision was based on… 29/11/2012
Racist sniper jailed for life in SwedenA gunman who shot dead two people during a spate of attacks on foreign-looking indiviuals in the Swedish city of Malmo has been jailed for life. Peter Mangs… 23/11/2012
Dutch tradition caught in racist accusationsSaint Nicolas has arrived in Amsterdam heralding the start of the Dutch celebrations for Christmas. As always since the mid 1800’s he was surrounded by his… 19/11/2012
Russian handbook insults immigrantsWhat was intended to be a friendly guide for labour migrants to Russia, has instead been taken as an insult. The brochure gives practical advice on dealing… 24/10/2012
Greece sees rise in racist attacks on immigrantsImmigrants living in Greece are increasingly becoming scapegoats for the economic crisis, say local NGOs. The Greek Council for Refugees says the government… 20/10/2012
Roma stage public rally against far right in HungaryHundreds of Roma have marched in eastern Hungary in a rare public protest against discrimination. Angry at a planned rally by the far right against them… 17/10/2012
Germany ‘infected by xenophobia’ 20 years after racist mob attackGermany’s President has warned against xenophobia, saying hate and violence against foreigners still exists in the country. Joachim Gauck’s comments came… 26/08/2012
Campaigners mark German race riotsAnti-racism campaigners in Germany have marked the 20th anniversary of the worst mob attack against foreigners in the country’s postwar history. The attack… 26/08/2012
Immigrants in Greece protest against racist attacksSeveral thousand people including many immigrants have demonstated in Athens to protest against increasing racist attacks in crisis-hit Greece. Mostly from… 24/08/2012
Life for killer of South Africa white supremacist Terre’blancheA black farmworker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’blanche in 2010. The… 22/08/2012
Hungarian MEP pushed to resignA far-right Hungarian MEP is being pressured to resign from his post in Brussels. This comes on the heels of revelations that Csanad Szegedi from the… 16/08/2012
Greek police accused of stoking racist attacksHuman rights groups say hate crimes in Greece are rising and that police behaviour is making the situation worse. They say in the past six months there have… 14/08/2012
Greece: Police vehicle carrying Pakistani man attackedIn Greece, a police vehicle carrying a Pakistani man accused of attempted murder, has been attacked by supporters of an extreme right-wing party. The Golden… 08/08/2012
Greece: illegal immigrants face deportationThe Greek government have been looking to the Gods for inspiration as they carry out plans to deport thousands of illegal immigrants. Bestowing a touch of… 07/08/2012
US police name temple shooting suspectPolice in the United States have named the man they suspect opened fire at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding three… 07/08/2012
Sweden: Man convicted of anti-immigrant sniper killingsA Swedish man has been convicted of two murders and four attemped murders after a 12-month shooting spree that targeted immigrants in the southern city of… 24/07/2012
France’s Front National far right to sue MadonnaAn image which shows French far right leader Marie Le Pen with the swastika imposed on her face could lead to Madonna being sued. It was included in a video… 16/07/2012
English footballer John Terry found not guilty of racial abuseFormer England football captain John Terry has been found not guilty of racially abusing fellow footballer Anton Ferdinand during a Premier League match last… 13/07/2012
Euro 2012: UEFA probes behaviour of Russian fansUEFA has launched disciplinary proceedings against the Football Union of Russia over the behaviour of fans at the Euro 2012 championships. It comes after… 10/06/2012
Demonstration in Athens after TV slappingThousands of people have turned out in Athens, to protest against the far-right Golden Dawn party. It comes after one of its members hit a left-wing… 09/06/2012
Guilty verdict in Terre’Blanche trialA South African court has found black farmhand Chris Mahlangu guilty of the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre’blanche. A second suspect was found… 22/05/2012
Georgia Gay Pride march ends in fist fightAn historic gay pride gathering in Georgia has ended in violence. Religious activists disrupted what was dubbed the country’s first-ever march to mark the… 17/05/2012
A second racially motivated murder trial begins in SwedenA man suspected of a series of racially motivated murders has gone on trial in Sweden. Peter Mangs allegedly shot dead three people and wounded several others… 15/05/2012
Victim’s brother throws shoe at Norway killer BreivikConfessed Norwegian killer Ander Behring Breivik has had a shoe thrown at him by the brother of one of the victims. Hayder Mustafa Qasim, who is from Iraq… 12/05/2012
Crowds send musical protest to BreivikThe news in the Breivik trial is today not coming from the courtroom but from outside in the streets of Oslo. About 40,000 people gathered to sing popular… 26/04/2012
Breivik maintains sanity claimNorwegian killer Anders Breivik has railed at psychiatrists who diagnosed him as psychotic. Saying their report contained evil, ‘fictional inventions.’ The… 25/04/2012
Florida murder suspect released on bailGeorge Zimmerman, the former neighbourhood watch volunteer accused of killing an unarmed Florida teenager, has been freed on bail. The 28-year-old was… 23/04/2012
Florida watchman charged with murder of black teenagerGeorge Zimmerman, a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Florida, has been charged with killing an unarmed black teenager in a racially-charged case that has… 12/04/2012
US rallies for dead black teenager Trayvon MartinA series of demonstrations took place across America on Saturday dedicated to Trayvon Martin, who was killed one month ago. Protesters are angry that the… 25/03/2012
Politician sparks Ukraine racist row in singing contestUkrainian singer Gaitana won the hearts of the judges in her bid to represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest this year. However, the… 23/02/2012
Racism row rocks parliament in FranceFurore in the French parliament as MPs from the ruling centre-right party walked out in protest after an opposition member appeared to compare the interior… 07/02/2012
Austrian far-right leader is denied an awardAustria’s far-right leader, Heinz-Christian Strache will not be given a prestigious order of merit after allegedly making disrespectful Jewish… 01/02/2012
Shock German survey on Holocaust Remembrance DayIt is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. But as the world recalls the horrors of the Hitler era, a new survey shows that a fifth of young Germans do… 27/01/2012
Lawrence family welcome racist murder sentencesTwo white men have been jailed in Britain for the racist killing of a black teenager nearly 19 years ago, in a landmark case that exposed institutional racism… 04/01/2012
UK: racist murderers sentenced after 18 yearsTwo men have been jailed in the UK for the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence more than 18 years ago. Lawrence, aged 18, was stabbed to death at a… 04/01/2012
London pair guilty of notorious racist murderTwo men have been convicted of the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the landmark case which exposed institutional racism in London’s police… 03/01/2012
Turkey hits out at ‘racist’ bill in FranceRacist, discriminatory and xenophobic. That is how Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described the French parliamentary vote making it a… 22/12/2011
Israel vows to curb settler violenceAfter a disused mosque in Jerusalem was torched, becoming the latest target of ultra nationalist settlers, the Israeli government has announced a crackdown on… 15/12/2011
Two dead in Florence ‘racial shooting’There was death on the streets of the Italian Renaissance city of Florence on Tuesday after two African street sellers were gunned down at lunch time in what… 14/12/2011
German police arrest another neo-Nazi suspectA special police squad in Germany has arrested another person in connection with a neo-Nazi terror cell. A 36-year-old man was detained in the eastern state… 12/12/2011
Back in the Day: Montgomery Bus BoycottOn December 5 , 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott began in earnest. Led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, it followed Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on a bus… 05/12/2011
Germany seeks public help in Neo-Nazi murder probeGerman police are asking the public for information about a trio suspected of a string of racist muders. Beate Zschaepe is the only one of the three still… 02/12/2011
Bundestag ashamed over neo-nazi killingsGerman politicians paid their respects on Tuesday to the victims of an alleged ten year neo-nazi killing spree which many in the country feel should have been… 23/11/2011
German MPs pay respects to alleged neo-nazi murder victimsBundestag politicians have paused to remember the victims of an alleged neo-nazi killing spree that has sent shockwaves across Germany. They paid their… 22/11/2011
German conference tackles neo-Nazi threatStrategy in Germany against a rise of far-right extremism is under the spotlight after revelations of a string of neo-Nazi murders. A conference of… 19/11/2011
German police launch neo-Nazi probe into murdersA candlelight vigil has been held in Berlin for 10 victims now thought to have been murdered by a suspected racist neo-Nazi group in the years after German… 14/11/2011
New arrest and more rumours in German neo-Nazi caseGerman police have detained another man in a neo-Nazi case that has shocked the nation, while rumours the group may have had secret service links abound. It… 13/11/2011
Neo-nazi link to 10 murders in GermanyGerman investigators say they can confirm evidence to link the murders of 10 people to far-right extremists. Over the past seven years eight Turks and one… 13/11/2011
Another anti-Roma rally is held in BulgariaIn Bulgaria some 3,000 people gathered in the city of Plovdiv in another protest against a rise in crime. Since the murder of an ethnic Bulgarian youth two… 03/10/2011
