Race Relations

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …

US`s National Association for Colored people to bury `Negro`

The us's National Association for Colored People will hold a symbolic funeral for the word "nigger' at the organisation's annual convention in July as part of its campaign to end the prevalence of racist and sexist language, images and concepts in the media. "Our unit in the youth and college …

Uganda protests over sugar plantation on forestland

on april 12, three people were killed and eight injured in Uganda over protests against the government's plan to give away part of the country's biggest rainforest land (Mabira forest) to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd (scoul). Among the people killed was an Indian. The protests took a racial dimension …

Historian Heather Goodall on indigenous people, water in Australia

Heather Goodall, a historian at the University of Technology, Sydney, has a special interest in Australia's indigenous people

Indian media on riots in Uganda

any inkling of danger to Indians in other parts of the world is often enough to send the country's media into a panic overdrive. Sometimes understandably so. Most non-resident Indians retain family ties, and the media could justifiably argue that it is duty-bound to report their well-being

Biased broadcast

CONDUCTED BY MEDIA TENOR INTERNATIONAL . June . 2002 US news takes more opinions from the white and has dramatic racial imbalances in sourcing. In fact, 92 per cent of all US 'sources' interviewed in 2001 on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News were white …

United colours of humanity

everything is not black and white. It's all shades of grey. This has been proved by a recent genetic research according to which, except for the skin colour, humanity is remarkably similar. Though people from different parts of the globe differ genetically, the dissimilarities are insignificant when compared with variations …

Charity ends with race

in one of the worst instances of racism in recent times, a hospital in uk, accepted a kidney from a donor who put a condition that it would not be transplanted on a "coloured' person. The incident occurred at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, where the donor died earlier …

Apartheid in academia

ALL White student bodies in the state schools of South Africa are now liberally punctuated with Blacks. Starting January 11-17, these institutions opened their gates to Black children in their vicinity. A bitter controversy had marred the first "registration days" in model-c schools around Johannesburg, set up by the erstwhile …

Muslim identity stays veiled

CONVENTIONAL anthropological fieldwork, common sense and academic adventure divorced from the contemporary trends in anthropological research are the mix in this book, but without rigorous data on the "whole" of Muslim identity. Conveying its message in bits and pieces, it is neither an insider's view nor an outsider's interpretation of …

From reservations to recognition

THE FIRST World has just discovered the relationship between environment and indigenous people. This is the primary reason for putting indigenous people on the environmental agenda. They have realised that if the world's rainforests are in danger so are the forest's inhabitants. "If they go, so do the forests," says …

Fighting for a place under the sun

THE NISGA: are a proud people who live in the Naas river valley of northwestern British Columbia in Canada. Today, they are still attached to their land. Joseph Gosnell, a NISGA:, who was in Rio, puts it this way, "Ours is a land like no other. Rich in salmon, steelhead, …

Rape charge shocks the Amerindian camp

NOT EVERYTHING was smooth sailing for the indigenous community in Rio. Shock and outrage gripped the community when Paulinho Paiacan, one of the chiefs of the Caiapo nation in the Brazilian Amazon region, was accused of having raped a white woman. Paiacan, incidentally, was the winner of the UN Environment …

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