Baird et al. explore who is considered Indigenous in Northern Thailand, highlighting Lua, Khon Muang, Hmong, and Lisu perspectives, offering context for the Ethnic Protection Bill.
Open-access article below:
📷 Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Thailand’s Indigenous peoples, long criminalized for protecting forests, have won legal recognition under the new Ethnic Protection Bill. This represents a milestone for cultural and land rights, offering a legal pathway to safeguard communities and their environment.
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This headline sounds about as comforting as "family values" (note, I'm queer)
It's the kind of "our shared values" that Israel and the USA talk about while planning to kill half a million people using billions of dollars worth of bombs?
https://apnews.com/article/syria-kurds-qamishli-conference-pyd-sdf-b415d6a9571275bb5a5d033cd89185dc #Syria's #Kurds call for a #democratic state that protects their ethnic rights #APNews
And the #EthnicRights bit gives me very "this genocide is self defence" vibes?
Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria are calling for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people representing Syria’s main Kurdish groups met in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Saturday to unify their positions a month after Syria’s new rulers signed a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities in the northeast. Kurds in Syria were marginalized during the 54-year Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship. Groups including the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Democratic Union Party, or PYD, and the Kurdish National Council called for a “fair and comprehensive” solution for the Kurdish cause.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 98
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/world/africa/mangosuthu-buthelezi-dead.html
#southafrica #zulu #mandela #ethnicrights #activism #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #history #obits #obituaries #restinparadise #rip #deaths #whodied
Minority Rights
killing.more.people.is.worse
Rest In Paradise