The French Football Federation was reported to prohibit Muslim players from fasting at the national team training camp during Ramadan, in the name of laïcité. [...]
News and Updates
Relief alone is not the answer. For every 100 given to a crisis, give 1% to the work that prevents the next one — communication, lobbying, research, and training the specialists it takes decades to produce. [...]
India, the United Kingdom and the United States — three incidents from a single day’s Bridge Initiative round-up, and the smear campaign against what would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate judge. [...]
Qatar was scrutinised over workers and desert heat before the World Cup. Three years later, Florida’s Senate banned cities from requiring water breaks and shade for outdoor workers. The standard should be universal. [...]
SAMNET extends its sympathies after three monks were killed and a fourth seriously injured in an attack in Johannesburg, and calls on government to take steps to protect religious institutions. [...]
Over 60% of processed drinking water in eThekwini is lost to failing infrastructure. SAMNET calls on citizens, local government, business and academia to act before the next crisis rather than after it. [...]
SAMNET on the SAHRC ruling on non-gendered school uniforms, and why decisions of this kind are taken in rooms parents are entitled to be in — and too often are not. [...]
SAMRC research finds 26.3% of university students currently use e-cigarettes and 76.4% have been exposed to their marketing. SAMNET calls for the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill to be passed. [...]
SGB elections run at public schools from 1 March to 30 April 2024. Most Muslim learners are in public schools, usually as a minority. How the vote works, how to vote strategically, and why a school with no engaged parents is far harder to work with when something goes wrong. [...]
Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter said she would propose that her government join South Africa’s application at the International Court of Justice. [...]
The ICJ is not the ICC, the action is ongoing rather than historical, and it is the first such case against a Euro-American ally. Eight things that make South Africa’s application different — and what they mean for the UN itself. [...]
The State Security Bill dropped its explicit vetting of NGOs and religious institutions — and replaced it with something broader. SAMNET on why South Africans should engage with surveillance legislation before it reaches a vote. [...]