Minorities

More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call ‘squatters’, face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.

Filed in: Israel Land Minorities

On 15 November, six Palestinian activists challenged Israeli ‘apartheid’ policies by boarding a segregated bus…and were promptly arrested.

Filed in: Human Rights Israel Minorities Palestine Resistance Social Change

The arrest of a doctor who works with poor communities in central India, on trumped-up charges of associating with ‘terrorist’ Naxalites, has sparked worldwide protest. Mari Marcel Thekaekara appeals for support.

Filed in: Human Rights India Indigenous Peoples Minorities

New Internationalist campaigner Zarlasht Halaimzai finds doors closed for Afghan refugees in Iran.

Filed in: Afghanistan Iran Migration Minorities Refugees

Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

Filed in: Human Rights India Minorities Nepal Netherlands Women

It’s 2010. Brazilian activists Marcelo Calazans and Renata Valentim imagine what the future might look like if the carbon market continues to grow.

Filed in: Brazil Climate Change Corporations Forests Indigenous Peoples Minorities Resistance

Poetry, prose and FACTS from Falun Dafa, Tibet and Gay China.

Filed in: China Gay Rights Minorities Tibet

Filed in: Indonesia Land Minorities

Filed in: Human Rights Indonesia Minorities

Pakistanis in the British midlands, North Africans in urban France, Indo-Chinese in suburban Australia: all have felt the sting of betrayal that comes by living in what might officially be a ‘multicultural’ nation.

Filed in: Migration Minorities Nationalism Race

Janet Smith visits a determined indigenous woman fighting for the rights of women and of her people in the Brazilian Amazon.

Filed in: Brazil Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Minorities Resistance Women