Full Coverage: Race politics

08.09.2005 A year since the Bush Administration declared that genocide was occuring in Darfur, little has been done to stop the violence and protect the people, says Africa Action, and asks you to call President Bush and help stop the genocide that is happening in Darfur.

05.09.2005 At the initiative of the associations of Czech, Slovenian, Roma and Ukrainian communities in Prijedor, the first “Evening of National Minorities” was held last Friday, September 2. The event was envisioned as an opportunity for the citizens of Prijedor to get together and for the national minorities to present their culture and customs.

26.08.2005 KAHNAWAKE - le 23 aout 2005 -La violence contre les femmes ainsi que d'autres problèmes de droits de la personne affectant les peuples autochtones des Amériques seront au cœur d'une réunion internationale inédite regroupant cette semaine à Kahnawake plusieurs dirigeantes autochtones.

24.08.2005 While the rates of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean are not the world's highest, a worrying disparity within a small group of countries and especially among indigenous groups and afro-descendants exist, reveals a U.N. assessment of the region's progress in meeting the MDGs.

23.08.2005 A Scots local newspaper editor is facing charges of incitement to racial hatred after he published an editorial opposing a proposed refugee centre in the north-east of Scotland.

23.08.2005 American Indian activists applauded a new policy that bans colleges and universities who display "offensive or hostile" racial/ethnic mascots from hosting championship sports events. College athletic programs have long appropriated Indian names, rituals and practices, which "ridicule and denigrate" the contemporary Indian community, said the activists.

23.08.2005 August 23 is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. Anti-Slavery International would like you to sign on to the 'Fight for Freedom Declaration,' and help eradicate forms of modern-day slavery such as racism and discrimination.

22.08.2005 At the 2005 commencement ceremony held at UBC, all the indigenous students receiving degrees refused to shake hands with UBC's Chancellor. They refused because of his use of a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan", in reference to the case known as "Delgamuuk", saying that before the "civilizing mission" from Europe entered the Americas, "aboriginal" peoples' lives were "nasty, short, and brutish."

18.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Black and poor Americans receive less life-saving medical treatment than their white and well-off compatriots, health researchers said in separate studies suggesting that inequality is worsening.

18.08.2005 The African Union (AU) faces a major embarrassment as President Robert Mugabe appears determined to snub an initiative by the continental body to broker a negotiated solution to Zimbabwe's long running political and economic crisis. Western governments and human rights groups have long accused the AU of standing by in the face of gross human rights abuses by Mugabe and his government.

15.08.2005 The Mesecina Roma Humanitarian organization from Gostivar, complains about the increasing number of cases of discrimination and racist incidents directed against Roma in Macedonia.

12.08.2005 Blacks are underrepresented on Sunday morning talk shows, which play a key role in the United States' political discourse, and Asian Americans rarely appear on prime time television, charge a pair of recent studies.

11.08.2005 Ward Churchill, Indigenous rights activist, traces the current U.S. aggression overseas back in history showing that the country's ability to project power and violence outward is directly dependent upon the repression and dispossession of Indigenous peoples within its claimed borders. The lecture and question period can be downloaded as a podcast.

10.08.2005 Health campaigners have called for the Mental Health Bill to be re-written so that statutory race-impact checks can be carried out.

10.08.2005 El tour de reconocimiento de los contrastes urbanos, inicia en el Chorro de Quevedo, lugar donde fue fundada en 1538 la ciudad de Santa fe de Bogotá, por don Gonzalo Jiménez de Quezada, con la construcción de 12 casas, una iglesia y la plaza. La ciudad fue trasladada un año después unos 5 kilómetros al sur, lugar donde hoy se encuentra la Plaza de Bolívar, el edificio del Congreso de la República, el Palacio de Justicia, la Alcaldía Mayor de la ciudad y la Catedral Primada de Colombia.

08.08.2005 Kurdish groups are voicing concern about the escalation of a crisis in north-west Iran that they say has left at least 20 dead and many wounded and imprisoned.

08.08.2005 Žitelji romskog naselja u Tošinom bunaru u Beogradu više od nedelju dana su na meti nepoznatih naopadača.

05.08.2005 First Equal is India's first online jobs site that caters exclusively to Dalits, the so-called lower classes, and provides them with information on private sector jobs. The site claims to target only the Dalit job-seekers and aims to promote voluntary affirmative action by the Indian corporates.

05.08.2005 London police announce that religious hate crimes have risen six-fold since the London bombings as other forces across the country also report rising levels of racial incidents.

04.08.2005 There have been 45 murders with a known or suspected racial element since the publication of the Macpherson report in February 1999, according to figures released by the Institute of Race Relations.