As France prepares for a new chapter in its political and social history, we spoke with people in France working on issues of social inclusion about the significance of what has passed to date and what the future may hold.
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Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: discrimination, France, Helene Irving, Islamophobia, Muslims in Europe, xenophobia
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Integration is a tortuous, generations-long climb for France’s Muslims. Perhaps nowhere is the effort more pronounced than in Paris and Marseille.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Chuck Sudetic, France, migration, Muslims in Europe
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Advocates of France's ban on the full-face veil argued it would protect gender equality and help maintain public order. A year later, it has done neither.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: burqa, burqa ban, equality, France, full-face veil, Helene Irving, Islamophobia, Muslims, niqab, women
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How do human rights activists turn an intuitive, sometimes spontaneous practice into a more deliberate process?
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Eleanor Kelly, Helene Irving, human rights advocacy, integration strategy, UK
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The U.S. State Department has been quietly trying to introduce ideas about multiculturalism into European policy and activist circles, aiming to alter the discourse on local Muslims—and in the process stirring European anger.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: France, Hishaam Aidi, Muslims, UK
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Any debate on Muslims in Europe needs to take into consideration the historical experience of Muslims in the Balkans and the challenges they continue to face.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Balkan Muslims, Bulgaria, Bulgarian Turks, Kerem Oktem, Muslims, Turkey
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BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal talks about her experience interviewing students about life in a diverse and multicultural East London community.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: At Home in Europe, BBC, belonging, Caribbean, East London, Eastern Europe, Great Britain, identity, Living in Leytonstone, London Short Film Festival, London Urban Short Documentary Film Festival, multicultural, Muslims, Razia Iqbal, school, South Asia, students, UK, Waltham-Forest
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Ordinary Europeans can and do confront new challenges facing their communities, including the fight against terrorism and populist extremism. We are looking to support more of these efforts in Antwerp and Marseille.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Antwerp, Brussels, civil society, France, Klaus Dik Nielsen, Marseille
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Jocelyn Cesari, a French political scientist and lecturer at Harvard University, discusses some surprising recent findings on Muslim identity in France.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: equality, France, Islam, Jocelyn Cesari, Marseille, Muslims, Nazia Hussain
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Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alain Fourest, Claude Geant, discrimination, Djamel Bouriche, France, Francoise Lorcerie, Helene Irving, hjab, Marseille, Muslims, Nazia Hussain, niqab
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