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Healthcare inequality isn’t only about lack of access, it can also involve forced treatment. In V.C. v. Slovakia, the European Court of Human Rights found a Roma woman was sterilised without informed consent. Even with legal protections, minorities still face serious violations in practice.

UN Women Regional Director concludes visit to Sri Lanka, reinforces push for gender equality Concluding a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka, UN Women Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Christine Arab, reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s...

Addressing persistent gaps in economic participation and violence against women, UN Women’s Christine Arab visited Sri Lanka to reinforce gender equality as vital for recovery. She launched the Country Gender Equality Profile, urging institutional reforms to ensure women lead the nation’s growth.

For decades, Filipino women migrated to Japan under the “entertainer visa,” gaining mobility while facing deeply gendered and precarious work. This study shifts the focus to what comes after: tracing how these women live with long-term uncertainty in their lives.
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Uganda’s 1972 Asian expulsion crisis lives on through the second generation. Through the study of a novel, a documentary, and music, it reveals how past displacement continues to influence culture, race, and integration, long after migration ends.
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Kurdish youth, photo credit: Rudaw

“Online Kurdistan is not a metaphor”
The study explores how Kurdish Gen Z created an “Online Kurdistan” that connects diaspora communities and resists repression. It shows how youth turn platforms into spaces of culture and solidarity, redefining concept of nationhood
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Who gets access to research funding? In the UK, funding success rates are around 27% for white applicants compared to 17% for ethnic minority researchers. When inequalities are built into systems, discrimination becomes harder to detect. Equal rights require more than equal rules.

China is expected to push for an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation China is expected to approve a sweeping “ethnic unity” law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights. On Thursday, legislators at the National People’s Congress are expected t...

China is implementing a new "Ethnic Unity" law to mandate national assimilation. The legislation enforces Mandarin-only education from kindergarten through high school. Experts warn this ends the constitutional promise of minority autonomy and poses a threat to different cultural identities.

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Historical treaties can still be challenged today. Many Coast Salish agreements were made under unequal conditions or without full understanding, yet they continue to shape land and fishing rights. When consent is unequal, the justice of those outcomes remains deeply contested.

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The Uyghurs - Muslim minority often described as a nation without a state - facing everyday repression in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Mass detention in “re-education” camps, pervasive digital surveillance, forced labor allegations, and restrictions on religious and cultural practices.

📖: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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Still not including minorities? A report reveals that in UK TV newsrooms 63% of minority staff report racism and 70% see no path to leadership. Diversity efforts fail to provide career progression and minority staff experience daily judgement because of claims that they are oly a “diversity hire”.

Photo: Florinda Zeka. Source: BBC News. 📖

Does secular neutrality protect pluralism or narrow it? Faith and Politics in Kosovo: The Status of Religious Communities in a Secular Country discusses debates around secularism and the hijab ban in public schools.

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Indian Slavery: An Atlantic and Hemispheric Problem Indian slavery was ubiquitous in the Americas and in the Atlantic World. Though Indian slavery varied in its forms and in its destructiveness depending on both time and place, Indian slavery shaped t....

An article by Rebecca Anne Goetz explores this topic more in academical terms: doi.org/10.1111/hic3...

For centuries, Native American enslavement has been hidden in plain sight. Geraldo Cadava explores how slavery operated shaping empires, & how a new project is working to confront this erased past.

📖www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-hi...

India’s Dalits (Untouchables) are 1/6th of the population. Despite prohibitions on discrimination of caste, they continue to encounter exclusion & violence. Annapurna Waughray argues that institutions should reconsider “minority” paradigms and castes’ roles in them.
📖 www.jstor.org/stable/24675...

Can segregation be “invisible”?
In D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic, the ECtHR found indirect discrimination when Roma children were disproportionately sent to “special schools.”
Nearly 20 years later, has segregation disappeared or just become less visible?
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Nordic Sami (Sámi) people in Sapmi (Lapland) in front of two Lavvo Tents. The Sami people in the photo are Nomads. Norway Sweden. - Granbergs Nya Aktiebolag

Is the 'green transition' just new-age colonialism? Christina Allard’s study explores how renewable projects in Sápmi often bypass Indigenous rights. Finding: "Sustainability" is being used to re-legitimize old extractivist patterns, threatening Sámi sovereignty.
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Olgun Akbulut’s commentary warns that ECtHR minority protection is shifting from pluralism toward state-led "cohesion." He finds expanded state discretion where identity loses ground to national uniformity, signaling a dangerous trend for democratic pluralism.

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Art provides a platform for self-expression all over the world, but for Syrian refugees in Istanbul, art became a way of navigating linguistic and cultural challenges. Gizem Karaköse examines how refugees redefine their identities and use art as a path for social inclusion.
📖 doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

Responding to debates on the continuing legal relevance and discriminatory effect of the collective guilt provisions of the Benes Decrees, the Slovakian Government adopted a law criminalizing the questioning of the Decrees.
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Minority rights violations going on in Slovakia against the Hungarian community. 80-year-old Benes Decrees, considered to be largely dormant, seem to allow discriminatory confiscation of land without compensation, which goes against established human rights standards.
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🇸🇮 Slovenia constitutionally protects some minorities while erasing others from former Yugoslavia. Long-term residents are excluded, producing a hierarchy of rights. A quiet example of post-socialist diversity management through ethnicized citizenship.

www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...

Following up on our earlier post about film stereotypes, a REACT video shows how films like Pocahontas romanticise and misrepresent real histories. Participants explain how such portrayals ignore lived experiences and spread harmful myths.
🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZkyL5pn74E

How do film stereotypes shape attitudes toward minorities? For decades, Hollywood portrayed Indigenous peoples as violent “savages.” Dan Flory argues that classic Westerns did more than entertain, they encouraged viewers to see Native Americans with fear and disgust.
📖 doi.org/10.1093/jaac...

Why do some public health ads backfire? El Hazzouri & Hamilton finds minorities may respond less positively to health ads featuring their own group, especially when negative stereotyping is perceived - though this effect may not apply to minority - targeted publications.

📖 doi.org/10.1177/0743...

Children from an uncontacted tribe in Brazil, seeing a helicopter for the first time on an expedition in 2008. They point their fingers at the camera.

Who protects those who choose isolation?In Rights of Self-delimiting Peoples,Lantz Miller argues uncontacted Indigenous groups fall outside rights frameworks and calls for protections for their self-determination and cultural survival.
📖https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-013-0256-4
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