Men charged for racially abusing Indian in Australia
Melbourne, July 28 (IANS) In a first such case in Victoria, three men have been charged with inciting racial hatred nearly six months after they physically assaulted an Indian student in this Australian city.

police have laid racial vilification charges against all the accused who racially and physically abused an Indian student on a bus heading towards Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula February 6.

Two of the men have been charged with inciting racial hatred, intentionally ... Read More

Ottawa-Gatineau high in hate crimes
By Ellen Mauro and Tobi Cohen

Ottawa-Gatineau received an unwelcome distinction Monday after a Statistics Canada report ranked the capital fourth among Canada's Top 10 metropolitan areas for hate crime activity.

The report found that 5.6 hate crimes occurred for every 100, 000 people in Ottawa in 2008, making a hate crime more likely to occur here (on a per capita basis) than in Toronto, where the rate was 5.4 incidents per 100, 000 people.

Vancouver and Hamilton ... Read More

You are invited
You are cordially invited to attend the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s (CRRF) biannual national Symposium/Award of Excellence 2010, which will take place on May 17-19 in Montreal.

As a crown corporation, CRRF is mandated to provide leadership in the building of a national framework for the struggle against racism in Canada. The Award of Excellence (AoE) is one of our initiatives to recognize public, private or voluntary organizations whose efforts represent excellence and innovation in ... Read More