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Israeli right wing leader compares LGBTI people to dogs

Israeli right wing leader compares LGBTI people to dogs - leader of the Union of Right Wing Parties in Israel compared LGBTI people to dogs in an interview, before apologizing for the remarks. Rabbi Rafi ...

71% of LGBT voters would choose Remain in a second Brexit referendum

71% of LGBT voters would choose Remain in a second Brexit referendum - They will form up into the official LGBTI column for the general march. The new demonstration, supported by GSN, is likely to be even bigger than last ...

Cameras, not weapons': young Papuans denounce the exploitation of their homeland

Cameras, not weapons': young Papuans denounce the exploitation of their homeland - Residents of Papua , the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been ... We've built up a network of about 60 young people , many of whom live in ...

Indigenous education conference opens with focus on language revitalization

Indigenous education conference opens with focus on language revitalization - It also aims to have 85 per cent of New Zealanders valuing Maori as part of ... There is also societal pressure to pronounce Maori place names and ...

Health advisory boards rife with racism

Health advisory boards rife with racism - A study driven by the desire to get behind the closed doors of government health advisory boards has painted a picture where Māori and Pasifika ...

Māori Climate Commissioner on Student Protests

Māori Climate Commissioner on Student Protests -  Māori Climate Commissioner, Donna Awatere Huata, says NZ is sending hypercritical messages by telling students not to join the climate change ...

Investing in the future of forestry

Investing in the future of forestry - They are available to Māori and/or female students enrolling in a Bachelor of Forestry Science or Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Forest ...

The new stolen generation of Māori children

The new stolen generation of Māori children - The new stolen generation of Māori children. I am deeply skeptical of the new Oranga Tamariki. Oranga Tamariki was set up after a damning 2015 ...

People and issues outside our big cities are diverse

People and issues outside our big cities are diverse -  Indigenous peoples are among rural and regional Australia's largest ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises are active in agriculture, ...

Why don't Aboriginal suicides matter?

Why don't Aboriginal suicides matter? - Tracy is the Western Australia's Australian of the Year for 2018, recognised for ... the burden of mental ill health and suicide in Aboriginal communities.

Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that

Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that - Thousands of skeletal remains of Aboriginal people are kept in museums across Australia , North America and Europe. Many Aboriginal people refer to ...

Heartfelt thanks for amazing community work

Heartfelt thanks for amazing community work - His work in our communities is amazing as he pushes for recognition of problem gambling in Aboriginal communities throughout NSW and Australia .

Indigenous Incarceration

Indigenous Incarceration - There is also a particular resonance between the experience of Indigenous people in Australia with those in other 'settler' countries of Canada, New ...

Woollahra synagogue welcomes indigenous voices for referendum

Woollahra synagogue welcomes indigenous voices for referendum - “I think that because it's a synagogue, people think it isn't open, but we are part of multicultural Australia , and want to hold events that are of interest to ...

ITB Berlin tourism partner Malaysia claims it has 'no gays'

ITB Berlin tourism partner Malaysia claims it has 'no gays' - Malaysia faces a potential backlash from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) rights groups after claiming that the Muslim-majority ...

Only LGBTI actors playing gay roles is 'dangerous territory'

Only LGBTI actors playing gay roles is 'dangerous territory' - Pride Openly gay actor Andrew Scott has warned against calls for only LGBTI actors to play gay roles . The 42-year-old ...

Pussy Riot protest for LGBTI rights in Chechnya at SA Parliament

Pussy Riot protest for LGBTI rights in Chechnya at SA Parliament - But that's exactly what happened on Wednesday when the feminist protest group Pussy Riot took to the steps, protesting the lack of LGBTI rights in ...

Gay and lesbian singers need to stop validating biphobic attitudes

Gay and lesbian singers need to stop validating biphobic attitudes - Apparently not only does this biphobia happen in everyday situations within the LGBTI community – But in the music people from the community ...

New Zealand's infant mortality rate falls significantly in 10 years

New Zealand's infant mortality rate falls significantly in 10 years - A decline in infant mortality has seen some of the lowest-ever rates reported for New Zealand's total population and for Māori . The rate fell from 5 ...

A Ban on Smoking and Vaping in Cars With Minors Will Have Racist Consequences

A Ban on Smoking and Vaping in Cars With Minors Will Have Racist Consequences - Over half of women in prison in New Zealand are Māori . Smoking rates among Māori mothers of children under 18 are the highest in the country.