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- Minority and Indigenous Trends
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2018
- Canada and the United States: The continued struggle of indigenous communities to defend their lands
- Central African Republic: The difficulties of return for the country’s conflict-displaced Muslims
- Dominican Republic: Stripped of citizenship, the deportations of ethnic Haitians continue
- Guatemala: Violence and discrimination drive indigenous migration elsewhere
- India: Living on the fringes of Delhi – the Ghiyaras of Rangpuri and their continued exclusion
- Israel: An uncertain future for thousands of African asylum seekers caught between detention and deportation
- Italy: Another year of forced evictions for the country’s Roma
- Jordan: The struggles of Bani Murra, one of Syria’s most marginalized communities, now displaced as refugees
- Morocco: An Amazigh community’s long wait for water rights
- Poland: Sub-Saharan Africans and the struggle for acceptance
- Russia: Migrants from Central Asia struggle with documentation in Krasnodar Krai
- South Sudan: Displaced again by conflict, the Shilluk community faces an uncertain future
- Sri Lanka: The gentrification of Slave Island – A way of life under threat for Colombo’s Malay population
- Thailand: As violence in the south continues, emigration from the region increases
- Uganda: Decades of displacement for Batwa, uprooted in the name of conservation
- United Kingdom: Rohingya refugees find a safe home in Bradford
- United States: Against a backdrop of growing hostility, undocumented migrants in Oregon are taking a stand
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2019
- Australia: As the Great Barrier Reef shrinks, Torres Strait Islanders have everything to lose
- Bulgaria: The Roma community that got trapped in a coal pit
- Canada: ‘Everything is Interconnected – if you remove one element the other topple over.’
- Canada: ‘Some people say it’s going to be indigenous people to stop climate change, but it will take every single person, not just indigenous people.’
- Chad: As deserts spread south, pastoralists face scarcity and drought
- Ecuador: Indigenous communities lead the fight against climate change and oil extraction on their land
- Finland: ‘Instability and abnormality are the new normal. Weather can change in an instant.’
- Iraq: ‘Women are the backbone of the Marsh Arab community – as the effects of climate change are becoming more visible, it is becoming clearer that women are the first to suffer.’
- Kenya: ‘The impact of climate change is worsening the situation of child marriage among the Maasai.’
- Kenya: ‘There has been no life for us since we were moved out of the forest.’
- Kenya: For Turkana pastoralists, oil offers no easy solutions to poverty and drought
- Morocco: Rising tensions between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary communities over land and water
- Namibia: Sharing local ecological knowledge through digital tools among the Ju|’hoansi
- Palestine: ‘Climate change is not just a natural phenomenon but a political one.’
- Panama: The devastating cost of ‘green’ development for the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé community
- Peru: Hunger and malnutrition among Shawi communities in the Amazon
- Poland: The role of environmental factors in shaping migration from Maghreb countries to Europe
- Russia: A way of life under threat for Nenets as oil drilling and ice melt take their toll
- Thailand: For Thepa’s Pattani Bay community, a coal- red power plant could bring an entire way of life to an end – and in the process accelerate climate change across the planet
- Tibet: Nomads caught between climate change and government ‘conservation’
- Tuvalu: ‘We have a right to stay in our God-given Islands.’
- United States: Hurricane Katrina hit minorities in New Orleans hardest – and without effective intervention the next disaster will do so again
- Vanuatu: Indigenous language loss and the multiplying effects of climate change
- Yemen: As the civil war rages on, the island of Socotra battles with climate change
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2022 | Focus on work
- Addressing barriers to equitable employment for minorities and indigenous peoples: The need for a holistic approach
- Afghanistan and Pakistan: Afghans escaping the Taliban face new challenges as refugees
- Australia: From employment barriers to food insecurity, the challenges of the pandemic have only intensified for First Nations Australians with disabilities
- Brazil: A new approach is needed to ensure equality in the work place for autistic people
- Canada: The exploitation of Mexican and Caribbean migrant workers in Ontario’s agricultural sector
- China: How Uyghur forced labour is driving global cotton production
- Dominican Republic: Lack of documentation leaves Dominicans of Haitian descent on the margins
- DRC: For Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, ‘fortress conservation’ has robbed communities of land and traditional livelihoods
- Egypt: Destroying heritage in the name of development – the monastery of Abu al-Darag
- Executive Summary
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- Germany: How digital training for refugees is opening doors to employment
- Lebanon: Migrant domestic workers and the struggle for visibility
- Living in the shadow of caste-based discrimination: A profile of Dalits, Burakumin and Roma
- Mauritania: For many Haratines, slavery has simply developed into new forms of discrimination
- Mexico: Shifting the axis – the need to ensure Indigenous concerns as the new standard of leadership in climate talks
- North Africa: Despite guarantees of equality, black citizens still face barriers to equitable employment
- Pacific: With ‘business as usual’ suspended during the pandemic, Hawai‘i turned to its traditions for answers
- Pakistan: ‘We are fighting for justice, and it has a cost’ – the plight of Christian sanitation workers
- Qatar: Ending the exploitation of its migrant worker population
- Russia: Sámi livelihoods under threat as mining in the Arctic gathers pace
- Serbia: Discrimination against Roma in the labour market
- Southeast Asia: Without safeguards, conservation efforts could undermine the traditional livelihoods of seafaring indigenous peoples
- Spain: The exploitation of migrant workers in the ‘Sea of Plastic’
- Tajikistan: With the future of labour migration uncertain, tourism could offer a lifeline for Pamir’s marginalized minorities
- The implications of the globalized extractive trading model for communities, environment and work: An urgent need for system change
- Uganda: The impact of mining on pastoralist livelihoods in Karamoja
- Ukraine: For displaced Roma, the conflict has exacerbated existing patterns of discrimination – and left them without an income
- United Kingdom: ‘Why is it we’re still faced with these same challenges?’ – the problem of racial inequality in academia
- United States: For Black Americans, unionization continues to offer the hope of better working conditions
- Zimbabwe: The disconnection of the San community from the modern economy
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2018
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020
- Belgium: Digitalization to unlock human rights to sign language – Yes, but at what cost?
- Bulgaria: Using information technologies to achieve positive change for Roma
- Cambodia: Protecting indigenous resources with a community-based monitoring app
- Cameroon: Confronting environmental injustice and illegal logging in the rainforest through indigenous-led technology
- Central America: For migrants crossing national borders or connecting across ‘the wall’, communication technologies play a vital role
- China: International firms are benefiting from Chinese technologies used to persecute Uyghurs and other minorities
- Democratic Republic of Congo: As global demand for cobalt soars, child miners pay the price
- Ecuador: Indigenous activists are finding ways to use technology to secure their rights – but barriers remain
- Egypt: Copts continue to suffer the effects of hate speech online
- Executive Summary
- Foreword
- India: The dissemination of misinformation on WhatsApp is driving vigilante violence against minorities
- Iran: For religious minorities, biometric identity cards threaten to become a new tool for surveillance and discrimination
- Iraq and Syria: Documenting human rights violations in conflict – the Ceasefire online reporting tool
- Italy: Mining, migration and munitions in Sardinia – a linguistic minority struggles with economic decline
- Kenya: For Turkana pastoralists struggling with drought, mobile finance offers a lifeline
- Lebanon: For Syrian refugees, discrimination is the greatest barrier to accessing Covid-19 testing
- Nepal: For persons with disabilities from minority and indigenous communities, the greatest barrier to accessing assistive technologies is discrimination
- Norway: Saami communities contend with the latest form of discrimination – ‘green colonialism’
- Pacific: For indigenous communities, new seabed mining technologies could begin ‘the biggest land grab in history’
- Pakistan: ‘The virus has turned every facet of life upside down’ – privacy and data protection concerns in the wake of Covid-19
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- Tanzania: For people with albinism, hate speech and discrimination have moved online
- United States: ‘If we continue to place our own individuality at the centre of our existence we will collapse on ourselves’
- United States: Equitable smart city design in San Francisco
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Afghanistan: ‘I had to ignore the threat of COVID-19 because I had to pay back my loans’
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Algeria: The ongoing struggle of indigenous Tamazight speakers in the wake of the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Argentina: Antisemitism on the rise in the midst of the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Australia: The essential role of community action for First Nations people with disabilities during the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Bangladesh: Indigenous workers face unemployment and destitution in the wake of the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Brazil: For the Amazon’s indigenous peoples, COVID-19 is the latest crisis in a long history of exclusion
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Essential, but unprotected – Toronto’s racialized labour force
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Indigenous health governance during COVID-19
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – China: ‘COVID diplomacy’ fuelled by Uyghur oppression
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Executive Summary
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Foreword
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Ghana: For Liberian former refugees, COVID-19 has made life even more precarious
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Greece: The role of youth and education in responding to the pandemic in Ritsona refugee camp
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Guatemala: A lifeline for survivors of gender-based violence during lockdown
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Human rights and COVID-19: Repression and resistance in the midst of a pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Iraq: Protesting for human rights in the midst of a pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Kyrgyzstan: In the wake of COVID-19, the threat to the rights of minorities and other marginalized groups is greater than ever
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Livelihoods and employment: The impact of COVID-19 on the economic situation of minority and indigenous workers
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Myanmar: For minorities, COVID-19 deepens the effects of conflict
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Pacific: Containing COVID-19 through cultural practices and a rights-based approach
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Preface
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Recognizing the right to health for minorities and indigenous peoples: Transforming the global inequalities of the pandemic into health justice
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Refugee rights at a standstill: border closures, pushbacks and discrimination in the wake of COVID-19
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Rwanda and Uganda: For Batwa communities, poor health outcomes are a symptom of protracted discrimination
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Serbia: With livelihoods devastated by the pandemic, Roma struggle to make a living
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – South Africa: In the midst of the pandemic, anti-foreigner sentiment has flourished
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – South Caucasus: In the midst of the pandemic, Nagorno-Karabakh’s long-standing conflict shows no signs of abating
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Spain: As the pandemic bites, growing numbers of refugees and migrants risk the dangerous Atlantic crossing to the Canary Islands
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Sri Lanka: Bad science and the ban on Muslim burials
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Sudan: As the refugee and IDP crisis escalates, COVID-19 is bringing new woes
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Sweden: For Sámi communities, COVID-19 border controls could threaten a way of life
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – UK: Equitable access to nature is more important than ever since the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – UK: For the London borough of Newham, COVID-19 is the latest chapter in a history of discrimination
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Ukraine: Local Roma initiatives to tackle educational inequalities during the pandemic
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – United States: For decades, Black Americans have been living through a public health crisis
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Weaponizing the pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 in conflict situations
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