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Powerful portraits and statements from Brazil's black and LGBTI community

Powerful portraits and statements from Brazil's black and  LGBTI  community -  It's no secret that Brazil has severe issues with discrimination. Last year 320 people were murdered in homophobic and transphobic attacks, not ...

Tbilisi Pride postponed, activists fly rainbow flag above anti-LGBTI rally

Tbilisi Pride postponed, activists fly rainbow flag above anti- LGBTI  rally -  Tbilisi Pride was due to take place today (8 July) but was prevented from going ahead. This is the second attempt for local  LGBTI  activists who have ...

Meet the trans woman headed to the US Supreme Court for being unfairly fired

Meet the trans woman headed to the US Supreme Court for being unfairly fired -  This is one of three  LGBTI  employment discrimination cases being reviewed by SCOTUS - its most significant  LGBTI  rights ruling since marriage ...

Scottish teen who stated there are only two genders is barred from school

Scottish teen who stated there are only two genders is barred from school -  Last year, Scotland had  LGBTI -inclusive education embedded within its curriculum, the first in the world to do so. According to a friend, Murray had ...

Cicilline Statement on Pompeo's Anti-Women, Anti-LGBTI Commission

Cicilline Statement on Pompeo's Anti-Women, Anti- LGBTI  Commission -    Last month, the U.S. House approved an amendment blocking funding for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's so-called “Commission ...

Rainbow flag burned outside a black-owned gay bar in NYC for the second time

Rainbow flag burned outside a black-owned gay bar in NYC for the second time -  For the second time in a little over a month, a rainbow flag was burned outside a black-owned  LGBTI  bar in New York City. The Alibi Lounge in Harlem ...

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 ... View article...

Disney Channel partners with Media Farm on Indigenous language series

Disney Channel has partnered with creator Media Farm and First Languages Australia to produce an Indigenous language series, Spread the Word. View article...

How to make your own Indigenous herbs and spices rack

"And to be truly relevant to the Australia we live in now as a fully inclusive Australia, we need to have more Australian Indigenous plants in our food. View article...

Born to Sparkle works with Indigenous Elders for NAIDOC week

Born to Sparkle has worked with local Indigenous Elders to create a First ... Annually in July, NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia. View article...

$5.6 million for research into healthy ageing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples currently have poorer health outcomes and higher rates of disability than non-Indigenous Australians of ... View article...

Meet the Aboriginal doctor turning tragedy to triumph

As a Worrorra woman from Derby, in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, Vinka grew up in the Aboriginal community of Mowanjum. "The end ... View article...

Celebrating Aboriginal histories, cultures and achievements

We have adopted the Reflect model from Reconciliation Australia. ... for the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be heard. View article...

Australian Aboriginal settlement receives World Heritage status

Budj Bim, in Victoria state, is the first site in Australia to receive World Heritage status solely for its Aboriginal cultural importance. Nineteen other World ... View article...

Northland Māori make push for greater representation in local government

Despite having one of the highest Māori population in the country, Northland iwi leaders say the lack of representation in the council means Māori ... View article...

Forestry Ministry partners with Māori land trusts

Crown Forestry is investing $5 million in joint ventures with two Bay of Plenty Māori land trusts to plant more than 200,000 trees this season. The first ... View article...

Māori education hui set to inspire

This year's hui is hosted by Ngāti Kahungunu and the theme is 'Ko te amorangi ki mua ko te hapai o ki muri,' there are many learnings from the past to ... View article...

One Billion Trees Programme supports Māori to realize land aspirations

"It brings Crown Forestry's investment in the Bay of Plenty to $6.3 million and takes the total number of joint ventures in New Zealand to 25, totaling ... View article...

Halal twist to Maori new year do

TOURISM New Zealand marked the Maori new year in Kuala Lumpur with a unique fusion lunch prepared by Malaysian celebrity chef James Won. View article...

Māori realising land aspirations through One Billion Trees

"It brings Crown Forestry's investment in the Bay of Plenty to $6.3 million and takes the total number of joint ventures in New Zealand to 25, totalling ... View article...

New Zealand Maori new year celebrated in Williamstown

A festival celebrating the New Zealand Maori new year aims to unite the broader community at Williamstown this month. Matariki Festival organiser ... View article...

Maori Communities Are Shifting to Vegan Diets

Māori communities across New Zealand are connecting with veganism. Kirsty Dunn, a University of Canterbury doctoral scholar, has conducted ... View article...

Malaysian rights groups call out state for anti-LGBTI actions

Malaysian rights groups call out state for anti- LGBTI  actions -  Evidence of state-sponsored violence and discrimination against  LGBTI  people in Malaysia has been documented and established, a coalition of ...

This self-care resource helps LGBTI people through tough times

This self-care resource helps  LGBTI  people through tough times -  Australian  LGBTI  groups have come together to create an invaluable self care resource that is useful for any  LGBTI  people. The groups released the ...

Botswana's Attorney General Says High Court Erred On LGBTI Ruling

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Australian Northern Territory's progress toward statehood

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...

Instructors at Australian university told to teach creation myth instead of science

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...

The Western Australian Ombudsman organises information sessions in order to engage with ...

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...

New HIV diagnosis in Australia hit eighteen year low

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...

Australian Aboriginal site gains World Heritage recognition

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

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 ...

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 ...

Residents told don't flush your toilets, as sewage leaks into New Zealand's largest lake

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...

Barry Soper: Māori statistics are a damning indictment on New Zealand

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...

Watershed report on Māori health highlights racism

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...

The Detail: Watershed report on Māori health highlights racism

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...

Dennis Marsh celebrated alongside Māori successes for Matariki

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...

Ka mate, ka mate: Māori on the killing fields

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

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...

Māori health woes need a circuit-breaker

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...

Recap : Aboriginal Community

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Recap : Aboriginal Community

Recap : Māori | NZ

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Recap : Māori | NZ

Love Is Only Love a charming and uplifting piece of LGBTQ

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'

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

Macquarie Regional Library | Explore Aboriginal resources at the library

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

Attorney-General John Quigley tough-on-crime push masks big plan to cut Aboriginal jail rate

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

No law says you can't sell fake Indigenous art

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

Indigenous men interested in health – but feel services don't meet their needs

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...

Call For Composers To Be More Respectful In Using Aspects of Indigenous Music

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

Top 10 finish for Swinburne at Indigenous Nationals

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...

The New Corporate Threat to Indigenous Languages

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...

Indigenous maternity support program sees 50 per cent reduction in pre-term births

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

Māori high flyers added to Teaching Council

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...

Māori vegans decolonise their diet

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

'Very disturbing': Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board calls for investigation after raw sewage pours into ...

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...

Kaimangatanga – Māori perspectives on plant-based kai

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...

Dennis Marsh celebrated alongside Māori successes for Matariki

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...

Scholar studies Maori perspectives on plant-based kai

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...

Racist health system no cure for sick Māori

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...

Respiratory 'WOF' and follow up improves Maori and Pacific children's asthma management - HDC

... 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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  ...