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Race and Identity

  • 14 May 2012
    Palestine: an idea or a reality?

    In the midst of significant, but not necessarily tectonic, changes across the entire Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, what has happened to Palestine, a virtual state clothed with a real idea, which had been at the forefront of the political imagination of the Arab masses for long decades? Dr Harry Hagopian examines long standing questions and recent developments with an eye to addressing 'the elephant in the room' of MENA politics.

  • 4 May 2012
    Warsi was right to link UKIP with the BNP

    Sayeeda Warsi, co-chair of the Conservative Party, was last night (3 May 2012) brave enough to note a link between the BNP and UKIP. She pointed out that UKIP candidates are standing in areas where the BNP had previously stood, implying that they can draw on the same sort of support.

  • 1 May 2012
    Churches' consultation focuses on migrant workers in the Gulf

    A global consultation on 'Ecumenical Advocacy for the Protection of the Human Rights of Migrant Workers in the Arabian Gulf Region' is taking place.

  • 29 Apr 2012
    Indigenous rights campaign breaks records for online activism

    A campaign to save one of the world’s most threatened tribes has generated more than 10,000 protest emails to the Brazilian government in just three days.

  • 25 Apr 2012
    Uncontacted tribe photographed in Colombian Amazon

    An uncontacted tribe has been photographed from the air in an area of the Colombian Amazon increasingly invaded by illegal gold-miners and loggers in recent years.

  • 24 Apr 2012
    Plaid Cymru call for English Parliament

    Plaid Cymru yesterday marked St. George's Day by calling for an English Parliament. They said that both Welsh and English voters would benefit from the plan.

  • 28 Mar 2012
    Exploring how identities and modernities function in Europe

    A one day conference is taking place on Wednesday 28 March 2012 in Kingston, west London, from 9am to 5.30pm. Some 80 people, including academics and researchers, are participating.

  • 22 Mar 2012
    Brazil's Awá tribe face 'real genocide'

    Calls were growing to stop “genocide” inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination yesterday.

  • 16 Mar 2012
    Meat labelling becomes a French election issue

    President Sarkozy's call for labelling meat from animals slaughtered in line with religious rules has sparked outrage among France's Muslim and Jewish leaders.

  • 7 Mar 2012
    Outrage over 'freakshow TV' portraying indigenous people as savages

    An Australian TV show branding an Amazon tribe as child murderers has been condemned by campaigners against racist depictions of tribal peoples.