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UN experts stress for urgent action to end racial discrimination over Christchurch shooting

United Nations, Mar 22 (UNI): Several top UN officials and human rights experts have stressed to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by taking urgent action against the “stem the tide of hate and discrimination” and ramping up of “ethno-nationalist populism”, which helped fuel the deadly shootings in two New Zealand mosques last Friday by a self-declared white supremacist.

New Zealand: Days after Mosques shooting, Parliament opens with Quran recitation

Wellington, Mar 20 (IBNS): Days after the Mosques shooting in New Zealand's Christchurch, the parliament opened with the recitation of Islamic religious text Quran on Tuesday, media reports said.