The Sunrise host made the request on Monday after tens of thousands of Australians marched in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra over the weekend.
Australians have taken to the nation’s streets to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. Thousands of attendees at protests in Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart on Saturday demanded concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in […]
Protesters call for concrete action as prime minister agrees more needs to be doneGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn urgent national cabinet meeting on men’s violence against women will be convened for Wednesday, with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, saying all governments nationwide – including his own at the federal level – must make changes and focus more on stopping perpetrators.Albanese and senior ministers stopped short of announcing new...
An emergency meeting of Australian leaders will be convened to tackle the scourge of violence against women after tens of thousands of people marched throughout the nation. A crowd of thousands marched on Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday for the last of 17 weekend rallies following an estimated 15,000 people demonstrating in Melbourne and […]
Turkish media, citing Turkish officials, reported that over the past month, authorities in Edirne have detained 1,096 “illegal migrants,” including Afghan citizens. According to reports, these migrants were detained yesterday, Wednesday, April 24th, and were referred to the Edirne Migration Directorate. Local authorities in Edirne stated that 54 of these individuals have been detained on […]
Around 100 students gathered outside Gould Plaza before marching down Lafayette Street on Monday demanding NYU divest from companies with ties to Israel, shut down its study abroad site in Tel Aviv and pardon disciplinary action against students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The march came right after a rally in Washington This story Protesters march from WSP down Lafayette demanding police removal from campus appeared first on Washington Square News.
Violence against women is an "epidemic" in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday, as thousands attended rallies in Sydney and other major Australian cities urging tougher laws on gendered violence. The rallies were spurred by a wave of violence against women that the government says has seen a
Rallies held across Australia this weekend. Comes as 26 women killed so far this year. Protesters demand action on domestic violence. READ MORE:
Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop CityPolice have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to...
Mounting tensions on U.S. campuses boiled over on Wednesday when pro-Israel supporters attacked an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, hours after police arrested activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and cleared a tent city from its campus. Eyewitness videos from the University of California at Los Angeles,
The event, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), began at Parliament Square at noon yesterday (Saturday 27). Two men were arrested during the march, according to the Metropolitan Police. One of the men was taken into custody for carrying a swastika emblazoned placard, shortly before the PSC march set off from Parliament Square. The other was for allegedly making racist remarks towards counter-protesters. The demonstration was to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. There was...
The event, organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), began at Parliament Square at noon yesterday (Saturday 27). Two men were arrested during the march, according to the Metropolitan Police. One of the men was taken into custody for carrying a swastika emblazoned placard, shortly before the PSC march set off from Parliament Square. The other was for allegedly making racist remarks towards counter-protesters. The demonstration was to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. There was...