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  • 7 Jul 2011
    Struggles against discrimination can benefit us all

    Dr Jorge Ramirez Reyna, president of Asociación Negra de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos (Black Association for Human Rights Defence and Promotion, ASONEDH) in Peru, reflects on the issue of racism in his country and the role of the conference on the Violence of Racism in Latin America, backed by the churches regionally and internationally, which took place in June 2011 in Managua, Nicaragua.

  • 1 Jul 2011
    Bushmen in Botswana face eviction

    Bushmen in south-west Botswana will be forcefully evicted from their land today (1 July 2011), according to national newspaper The Voice.

  • 26 Jun 2011
    Concern over fate of asylum seekers forced out by UK

    Worries continue about a group of rejected asylum seekers who arrived in Colombo at the end of last week after being forcibly returned from the UK.

  • 24 Jun 2011
    Scottish MSP raises concerns over religiously segregated schooling

    Scottish Tory justice spokesperson John Lamont says the west of Scotland school system contributes to the "conditioning of sectarian attitudes".

  • 24 Jun 2011
    'Agents of discomfort' needed in churches to combat racism

    Church leaders from the Americas and the Caribbean are meeting in Nicaragua, to seek action on the violence of racism and the challenges it poses.

  • 23 Jun 2011
    EU told to treat refugees and asylum seekers humanely

    The European Union risks “undermining its core values” unless it treats refugees and asylum seekers more humanely, says a senior Protestant expert.

  • 22 Jun 2011
    'Saving the Indians' souls' in colonial Peru

    Ethnohistorical and other studies show the great influence and power the historic Spanish mission had over the native population?s lives and souls in the Andean region, says Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar. At the same time as they document the missionaries' daily struggle to impose European ways of life onto other cultures, they also indicate that indigenous people were not only victims, but also agents in re-shaping their living conditions and their cultural identities.

  • 21 Jun 2011
    Anti-detention protests on World Refugee Day in Australia

    Thousands of Australians have marked World Refugee Day (20 June) by rallying to demand an end to mandatory detention of asylum seekers.

  • 16 Jun 2011
    Palawan tribal leaders in Manila to protest against mining

    Traditional leaders of the Palawan tribe have travelled to the Philippine capital, Manila, to protest against mining on their land.

  • 30 May 2011
    Armenian Genocide and Israeli recognition

    If the motion for recognition of the Armenian Genocide was successful this year in the Israeli Knesset, despite his misgivings, Harry Hagopian - alongside scores of other Armenian and non-Armenian scholars, activists, sympathisers and grassroots - will rejoice at this moral and equitable achievement.