Society / Minorities
Articles about Minorities, ordered by date. 
Spotlight: Abduweli Ayup
Uyghur poet and teacher Abduweli Ayup talks to Jan-Peter Westad about language, cultural survival and the unspeakable.
The Alternative World Cup
In June 2018, London is hosting an alternative ‘World Football Cup’ of linguistic minorities and unrecognized nations, organized by CONIFA. Alessio Perrone reports.
Down with America’s racist monuments
Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is, writes Mark Engler
No celebration of colonization
That is the demand of many First Nations people during Canada’s year-long jamboree to mark its 150th anniversary of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.
‘This is cultural genocide’
Indigenous communities in Colombia refuse to occupy an empty space in history, and believe their very cultural survival is at stake, reports Hazel Healy.
A question of belief
Persecuted in Pakistan for being 'non-Muslim', the Ahmadi community has sought refuge abroad. But intolerance is not easily escaped, as Samira Shackle discovers.
Crude triumphalism in Sri Lanka
On the eve of the Commonwealth summit in Colombo, Lewis Garland reports on the insidious disempowerment of the country's Tamil community.
Israel evicts Bedouin villagers
More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call 'squatters', face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.
Into the vortex of identity
With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism, making the case for looking beneath the smokescreen of ‘culture clash’.
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| Spotlight: Abduweli Ayup | A caring economy | November, 2020 |
| The Alternative World Cup | Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent | December, 2017 |
| Down with America’s racist monuments | Brazil's soft coup | October, 2017 |
| No celebration of colonization | Brazil's soft coup | October, 2017 |
| ‘This is cultural genocide’ | Bad Education | September, 2017 |
| Roma discrimination rife | Organ trafficking | May, 2014 |
| A question of belief | The war on whistleblowers | April, 2014 |
| Crude triumphalism in Sri Lanka | Fracking - the gathering storm | December, 2013 |
| Israel evicts Bedouin villagers | Haiti two years on | January, 2012 |
| Into the vortex of identity | Multiculturalism | May, 2009 |
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