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The Leiden gunpowder disaster was an event in which a ship carrying hundreds of barrels of black powder exploded in the town of Leiden in the Netherlands on 12 January 1807. The disaster killed 151 people and destroyed over 200 buildings in the town.
In the aftermath of Mussolini's fall from power and the invasion of Italy by Germany, the Badoglio government suppressed the laws in January 1944. In northern Italy, they remained in force and were made more severe in the territories ruled by the Italian Social Republic until the end of the Second World War. [2]
In Medieval Italy, slavery was widespread, but was justified more often on religious rather than racial grounds. [31] Over the course of the Early Medieval period, however, Steven Epstein states that people "from regions like the Balkans, Sardinia, and across the Alps" were brought over to the peninsula by Italian merchants, who thus "replenished the stock of slaves". [31]
U.N.-backed human rights experts focusing on racial discrimination urged Italy's government to do more to eliminate violence, hate speech, stigmatization and harassment against Africans and people ...
Italian soccer has a longstanding issue with Black players being racially abused by fans. GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-backed human rights The post Italy can step up, do more to fight racism ...
The press in Fascist Italy highly publicized the "Manifesto of Race", which included a mixture of biological racism and history; it declared that Italians belonged to the Aryan race, Jews were not Italians, and that it was necessary to distinguish between Europeans and non-Europeans. [101]
Law for Protection of the Nation; LGBTQ rights opposition; MSM blood donation restrictions; No kid zone; Numerus clausus (as religious or racial quota) One-drop rule; Racial quota; Racial segregation. Jim Crow laws; Nuremberg Laws; Racial steering; Redlining; Same-sex marriage (laws and issues prohibiting) Segregation. age; racial; religious ...
A 2011 study shows that racism against sub-saharan people is strongly influenced by its colonial history. [1] Today racism is present in all 3 main regions of Belgium, specially in Flanders, and widespread in the society: [2] [3] in the police, [4] [5] in schools, [6] [7] in sport activities, [8] on the streets, [9] in public institutions, [10 ...