Stigmabase | Australia - New Zealand

Botswana's Attorney General Says High Court Erred On  LGBTI  Ruling -  Botswana's government will appeal against a landmark High Court ruling that decriminalised homosexuality, the attorney general says. Last month the ...

Botswana seeks to overturn ruling that legalised gay sex -  “It says to  LGBTI  the state through its lawyers (attorney general) affirms the ... It suggests that the  LGBTI's  lives should be determined by the majority ...

British Museum begins to offer guided tours of  LGBTI  treasures -  The guided tour initiative builds on the museum's existing  LGBTI  audio tours. 'We'll see how they go, see what the demand is,' said Sarah Saunders, ...

16+ photos from the biggest UK Black Pride ever -  It is now Europe's biggest festival for  LGBTI  people of color. This includes those of African, Asia, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern ...

New HIV diagnoses in both  Australia  and Singapore are the lowest in over a decade -  New HIV cases in both Singapore and  Australia  have become the lowest in over a decade. In Singapore, the Ministry of Health announced there were ...

Nun removes anti- LGBTI  protesters from church courtyard during Brianza Pride -  An anti- LGBTI  group of ultra-Catholics tried to oppose the celebration with a letter to the police commissioner and a 'reparation mass.' Yet, their plan ...

Indigenous -rights approach offers solution to climate-change crisis -  On June 22 and 23, experts, political leaders, nongovernment organizations, and  indigenous peoples  and communities gathered to deliberate on a ...

Ancient  indigenous  Budj Bim Cultural Landscape added to UNESCO World Heritage List -  Older than the Egyptian Pyramids, the southwest Victorian  indigenous  site was accepted onto the list at a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday, ...

How one coin could change the history of a continent -  Kilwa coins have been found previously in northern  Australia , in 1944, ... Or it could indicate contact between  Indigenous Australians  and Kilwa traders ...

Fans pay tribute to legendary actor David Gulpilil after he wins top NAIDOC award -  Australians  have offered messages of support for  Indigenous  acting legend David Gulpilil after he reveals his battle with cancer upon winning a top ...

On this day July 1, 1978 The Northern Territory in Australia was granted ... Prior to The Northern Territory gaining control of its affairs, The Aboriginal ... View article...

Lecturers at the University of New South Wales "have been warned off making the familiar statement in class that 'Aboriginal people have been in ... View article...

Aboriginal people are the traditional custodians of the land now known as Western Australia with a history of custodianship of up to 100,000 years and ... View article...

There's still lots of work to be done though to reach the goal of no new transmissions by 2020, and rates amongst indigenous Australians and ... View article...

An Aboriginal settlement older than the pyramids that provides evidence that indigenous Australians developed sophisticated ... View article...

Ancient  indigenous  Budj Bim Cultural Landscape added to UNESCO World Heritage List -  The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, near Portland, became the first in  Australia  to receive World Heritage status for its  Aboriginal  cultural importance ...

This is a very special day': How a little-known structure in Victoria achieved world heritage status ... -  The site was described in 1841 by  Australia's  Chief Protector of  Aborigines  George Augustus Robinson as: 'An immense piece of ground trenched and ...

Images from the Tuwharetoa Maori Trust Board, an indigenous Maori body that owns the lake, show a blast of brown sludge inching into the lake's ... View article...

Māori statistics are a damning indictment on all of us. The country isn't working in the best interests of our indigenous people and we can only live in ... View article...

A watershed Waitangi Tribunal report backs claims the system is racist, finding the Crown has breached the Treaty in failing to give Māori control over ... View article...

Claimants are calling it a watershed report. The Waitangi Tribunal report into inequities in health for Māori has found the Crown has breached the ... View article...

After a 30 year career that has seen him crowned as New Zealand's most successful country music artist of all time, award-winning Pukekohe singer ... View article...

In an extract from his new history of Māori in World War I, Dr Monty Soutar describes a scene of courage and heartbreak on the foothills leading up to ... View article...

Rediscovered images of Māori life are precious taonga ... At present, this fish is the only one to have legal protection in New Zealand, and it gained ... View article...

Maori life expectancy is still seven years below non-Maori and Maori fared worse in nearly every area of healthcare from cancer rates to child hospital ... View article...

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Recap : Māori | NZ

Love Is Only Love a charming and uplifting piece of LGBTQ -  Set in suburban  Australia  in 1993, Love Is Only Love tells the tale of a young boy whose life is changed forever when, at the age of six years old, ...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan: Trump is the 'poster boy of the far-right' -  During the Mayor's Pride Reception at City Hall last night (3 June), the Labour mayor warmly welcomed his  LGBTI  guests. 'It's really important for us to ...

LGBTI  activist dragged from car and assaulted in North Macedonia -  Bekim Asani has long advocated for  LGBTI  rights in the landlocked country, which has one of the lowest rankings in Europe for  LGBTI  rights.

LGBTI  Indians still fighting for social acceptance -  Nearly 2 out of 5  LGBTI  Indians believe battling for equal rights and social acceptance is the biggest issue facing the community, a YouGov survey ...

Religion should be separate from State, but apparently not in the 46th Parliament -  This will no doubt have huge ramifications for the  LGBTI  community, among others, that have been through enough pain without needing further ...

Did these Pride-enthusiast companies gave money to anti- LGBTI  politicians? -  As Pride month has drawn to a close, new research has shed a light on those companies who seemed eager to appeal to the  LGBTI  community by ...

LGBTI+ community experience highest level of discrimination in the country - CSO -  Those who identify as LGBTI+ experience the highest level of discrimination in Ireland, according to new figures released by the Central Statistics ...

Make voices heard on religious discrimination -  Just.equal urges  LGBTI  groups to make their views known to the Federal Government on proposed religious discrimination and freedom laws.

The Aboriginal collection contains items related to the history, language, art and culture of Aboriginal people, and includes adult and junior resources ... View article...

WA had and still has the highest incarceration rate for Aboriginal people in Australia. Higher than both the Northern Territory and Queensland. View article...

After the Federal Court of Australia found that company Birubi Art had been falsely promoting and selling art as Indigenous Australian, three ... View article...

Dr Canuto recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia that Indigenous men are not participating in events related to primary health care ... View article...

"A few decades ago some Australian composers were building quite a body of work around referencing Indigenous music," Sainsbury told Daniel ... View article...

The Swinburne team beat hosts the University of Western Australia 36-21 in ... The centre is vital to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... View article...

Then he showed a slide with a Māori sentence on it. "Tenei au ka mihi ... One from five years ago translated the Māori phrase as "Today I greet you all. View article...

The service has a multi-disciplinary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... model could help reduce pre-term Indigenous births across Australia. View article...

High flying Taranaki school principal Nicola Ngarewa has been appointed to chair the new board of the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand. View article...

A University of Canterbury doctoral scholar is researching kaimangatanga or kaupapa Māori veganism. Kirsty Dunn from Te Aupouri and Te Rarawa, ... View article...

Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board chief executive Topia Rameka said it was "very disturbing" to hear of the major spill into Lake Taupo this afternoon. View article...

Gathering together many different perspectives on kaupapa Māori ... at UC, Ms Dunn, who is a postgraduate member of UC's New Zealand Centre for ... View article...

After a 30 year career that has seen him crowned as New Zealand's most successful country music artist of all time, award-winning Pukekohe singer ... View article...

During her MA research studies at UC, Ms Dunn, who is a postgraduate member of UC's New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, considered ... View article...

The health system is very sick. It's riddled with institutional racism and individual racists. The result is inequality of health care for Māori. View article...

... of hospital admissions for respiratory disease (7.3 and 10.4 per 1000 respectively) compared with New Zealand European children (4.5 per 1000). View article...

Why  LGBTI  people should consider reading the Qu'ran -  Khakan Qureshi, a gay Muslim, says having a knowledge of Islam can help counter arguments against gay, bisexual and transgender rights.

New HIV diagnoses reach 18-year low  in Australia -  New HIV diagnoses have hit an 18-year low  in Australia , according to new ... There has been a 30 percent drop in HIV diagnoses among  gay  and ...

Non-binary activist creates special artwork for Skittles to celebrate Pride -  to help Skittles celebrate Pride season. Skittles have released four new Pride packet designs by four  LGBTI  artists, each with a story behind them.

UN report says Belarus continues to commit human rights violations -  Belarusian society faces ongoing challenges around the death penalty, discrimination against Romani people, and discrimination against the  LGBTI  ...

Turkey cuts scholarships of students detained during Pride march -  Turkish authorities stripped the scholarships of several Middle East Technical University students detained during an  LGBTI  pride march on the ...

Scotland Is The First Country To Implement  LGBTI  Education In Schools -  Well, this isn't good. The show aired an animated Larry Stylinson scene, but didn't contact Tomlinson for approval. In response to a fan questioning ...

Russian 'gay hunt' website targets  LGBTI  activists and journalists -  A Russian website charging 200 Rubles to anybody wanting to find out personal information about allegedly gay people is now targeting  LGBTI  ...

Exposing  LGBTI  myths, interviewing saviors in the Middle East -  The complex, changing nature of Middle Eastern and North African attitudes toward homosexuality is on display in (1) interviews with people who ...

Associate Professor James Ward, head of the Infectious Diseases Research Program for Aboriginal Health at the South Australian Institute for Health ... View article...

Six Māori and Pacific Islanders have the opportunity to showcase their ... It's celebrating collaboration with Māori and Pasifika," says Ms Nathan. View article...

When Ingrid Johanson decided to help organise a trip to France for five Aboriginal artists to exhibit their textile work, she didn't expect the process to ... View article...

There are countless Indigenous women that are changing lives all around the globe. ..... First Australian Indigenous person to be elected to a UN body. View article...

It lays out the many and serious distortions of the New Zealand health ... Arrangements to ensure Māori representation on DHBs, finds the Tribunal, ... View article...

The Australian author Thomas Keneally has released a new book in which he fictionalises a real life ancient Australian - Mungo Man. His skeleton ... View article...

Voiced by former chairman of Indigenous Tourism Australia, Dr Aden Ridgeway, Ngarandi was created after declining participation in Indigenous ... View article...

"It's a big focus at the South Australian Film Corporation for Aboriginal people to be telling their own stories and that's what we are doing," she said. View article...

The organizers are focusing a great deal of attention on Indigenous and Afro –Latin American roots in the region extending from Mexico's northern ... View article...

Tribunal recommends new Māori health authority ... Social, cultural and economic factors are the main determinants of health in New Zealand. Others ... View article...

It's 15 years ago that Don Brash made his famous (or infamous depending on where you sit) speech advocating one rule for all and ending what he ... View article...

Tribunal calls out racism; recommends independent Māori health authority and .... The New Zealand Health Strategy does not prioritise Māori health ... View article...

Hauora report on Maori health 'bold and courageous' ... "The proposed changes to the New Zealand Public Disability Act 2000 will protect MÄ ori into ... View article...

NZ Maori Council welcomes major Waitangi Tribunal recommendations that would see a new National Maori Health Funding Authority established. View article...

Onepū, a powerful expression of mana wahine - the intrinsic power of women - conveyed through Māori contemporary dance is on show in Northland ... View article...

Recently retrieved documentary footage, images and documents of Māori life in the early 20th century are a treasure trove for future generations. View article...

Tribunal finds health reforms failure for Māori ... to account by the Crown since the passing of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. View article...

Cormann says 'religious freedom' a pressing issue for government -  Amending existing marriage, charities and discrimination laws to allow 'religious freedom' can only mean more discrimination against  LGBTI  people ...

LGBTI  candidate pushes Japan on  LGBTI  education in schools -  she used a plenary session to push the government about  LGBTI  education and anti-discrimination measures. Tsujigami argued ...

Quiet  Australians ' donating to Israel Folau's legal costs include  GAY  people and Muslims - as footy ... -  A wide range of 'quiet  Australians ' ranging from Muslims and atheists to  homosexuals  have contributed towards Israel Folau's legal fight with Rugby ...

Australia's  first  gay  female Liberal MP joins the House of Representatives -  Queenslander Angie Bell is the first openly  gay  woman to represent a major party in the Lower House - but she wants to be remembered for much ...

The Productivity Commission will decide how programs and policies affecting indigenous Australians should be evaluated amid concerns they are ... View article...

Former Labor leader Mark Latham has attacked the decision of Australia's new Governor-General David Hurley to speak in the Ngunnawal Aboriginal ... View article...