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A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms from China to Colombia Continue reading…
The chapter of the international movement said it was a ‘racist, white-dominated space’A large part of New Zealand’s School Strike 4 Climate movement has formally disbanded, saying it had been racist and insufficiently responsive to activists of colour…
Using individual children to ‘sell’ schemes to rich donors is similar to ‘poverty porn’ images of past, say experts, as calls grow to decolonise aidInternational child sponsorship schemes have come under attack for perpetuating racist thinking, as an a…
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As a woman who is half Malaysian-Chinese and half white, I have spent my entire life being exoticised and stereotyped, writes Alex SmithAfter reading about the shocking and heartbreaking news of the Atlanta shootings (FBI under pressure to tackle anti-…
Canberra is understood to fear that isolating country risks driving junta into China’s embrace Exercise instructor appears to unwittingly capture Myanmar coup in dance videoAustralia is facing growing calls to suspend military cooperation with Myanmar …
Kavita Puri’s Three Pounds in My Pocket is an extensive oral history of the lives of Indian and Pakistani migrants and their families, from partition to Cornershop“A lot of them had survived partition, they were living in difficult conditions, working …
More than 90 people – the wounded, the mourning, the defiant – spoke at the sentencing hearing for the gunman responsible for New Zealand’s most deadly terrorist attack, explaining how the massacre changed their lives forever. Here we document their ev…
We cannot fully understand the current upheavals, or almost any turning point in American history, without accounting for the human pyramid that is encrypted into us all: the caste system. By Isabel WilkersonIn the winter of 1959, after leading the Mon…
Race relations researcher who saw political involvement as a key factor in integration for immigrants to BritainMuhammad Anwar, who has died aged 75 of a heart condition, did much to advance understanding of the problems and opportunities of ethnic min…
Announcement comes against backdrop of global anti-racism protestsL’Oréal al has announced it will remove words like “whitening” from its products, as global anti-racism protests continue.“The L’Oréal Group has decided to remove the words white/whiteni…
Company agrees to change branding to promote ‘more inclusive vision of beauty’The Indian arm of the consumer goods group Unilever says it will change the name of its skin-lightening cosmetics range Fair & Lovely and stop using terms such as “whiten…
Call comes after China warned students to reconsider going to Australia because of ‘incidents of discrimination’ targeting people of Asian descentAustralian politicians must unite against racism after Chinese-Australians were subjected to “awful and sh…
John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna on class awareness, Jane Darling on black and white history, Brian Keegan on anti-Irish racism, Dorothy Chang on ‘yellow history’ and Barbara H…