Sudan war: ethnic divisions are being used to cover up army failures – peace scholar: Sudan’s civil war has devastated the country and strained relations with neighbouring South Sudan. Events in January 2025 have stirred up xenophobic feelings in Sudan and outrage in its southern neighbour, heightening the risk of regional instability. Early in the …
Racism, harassment and discrimination takes a terrible toll on ethnic minority NHS staff: Zeynep Demir Aslim/Shutterstock During the COVID-19 pandemic, a time filled with uncertainty and fear, ethnically minoritised NHS staff have not only had to contend with the virus but also a workplace fraught with inequalities. Recent reports highlight concerning – and ongoing – …
Pay gaps and less chance of a top degree: the unequal experience of ethnic minority staff and students at English universities: fizkes/Shutterstock A 2020 report on racial harassment published by industry body Universities UK drew attention to the “institutional racism and systemic issues that pervade the entire higher education sector”. In the same year, the …
Attack on Gaza: Israeli rhetoric fuels fears of ethnic cleansing as IDF assault continues to push south: Over the past eight weeks, with only a brief pause, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have carried out a relentless attack on Gaza. Day by day the death toll has grown. According to the latest figures from Gaza’s …
Firearms officers: new report reveals the ‘toxic culture’ keeping women and ethnic minorities out of specialist squads: Svet foto/Shutterstock Hundreds of London’s Metropolitan police officers temporarily turned in their firearms in September after the Crown Prosecution Service charged an officer with the murder of unarmed 24-year-old Chris Kaba. Up to 300 of the force’s 2,500 …
Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan’s energy wealth gives it de facto impunity for ethnic cleansing: A United Nations mission finally arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on October 1 to find its towns and villages almost completely deserted. Two weeks after Azerbaijan launched an all-out military assault on the disputed territory in the south Caucasus, the Armenian government has said there …
Ethiopia’s Amhara people are being portrayed as the enemy: the dangerous history of ethnic politics: The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the Fano, a local armed militia. Some suggested that Ethiopia risked slipping into another civil war. It is …
Minority ethnic politicians are pushing harsh immigration policies – why representation doesn’t always mean racial justice: There’s no question that British politics is becoming more diverse. From only four minority ethnic MPs elected in 1987, now 67 MPs are from a minority ethnic background. The Scottish first minister, Humza Yousaf, recently became the first minority …
The worries parents from ethnic minority backgrounds have about their children’s experiences at school: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Children and young people should be able to study in schools that recognise and respect their diverse backgrounds. But teachers sometimes struggle to handle this diversity in the classroom. Findings from research conducted in Ireland have shown that teachers may …
Zulu vs Xhosa: how colonialism used language to divide South Africa’s two biggest ethnic groups: An illustration of an antique photograph of the British Empire's mission work among the Zulu people of then-Natal province. ilbusca/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images South Africa has 12 official languages. The two most dominant are isiZulu and isiXhosa. While the Zulu and …
French universalism sidelines ethnic minorities – why that must change: French MP Olivier Serva has urged his government to tackle discrimination against people with afro hair. In a recent interview on the national radio station France Info, he reportedly introduced plans to present a cross-party bill to parliament by appealing to the republic’s values of …
The Banyamulenge: how a minority ethnic group in the DRC became the target of rebels – and its own government: Banyamulenge community members at the funeral of one of their own in eastern DRC. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images The Banyamulenge are a minority ethnic group in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). …
More ethnic minority teachers are needed in UK schools – but teaching can affect their mental health and wellbeing: wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock There is a major shortage of new teachers in England, and this includes teachers from ethnic minority backgrounds. Research from 2020 found that 46% of schools in England had no Black or ethnic minority teaching …
Kosovo: ethnic tensions have created a political ‘volcano’ that could erupt anytime: After US state department counsellor Derek Chollet recently visited Kosovo in a bid to calm tensions flaring in the north of the country, he said Washington’s priority was to prevent “violence metastasising” (spreading) between Serbs and Albanians. “The last thing any of us …
Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK: In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, there has been a heightened awareness of ethnic inequality in the UK. Despite some recent studies on housing conditions in the context of the pandemic, little attention has been paid to how racial …
COVID has taken a greater toll on mental health among people from ethnic minorities – sadly this is no surprise: Fernando @cferdophotography/Unsplash We’ve known for some time now that the physical effects of the pandemic have not been distributed evenly across society. For example, data from the UK and other countries has shown that a …
Ethnic minority workers earn much less than white counterparts within the same firm – new findings: Same role, different wage. AllGo, CC BY-SA Ethnic minorities make up an ever larger share of the UK workforce. Where just over 6% of all workers were from minority backgrounds 20 years ago, now it’s nearly 14%. Yet employees …
Heatwaves: why ethnic minorities in the UK are more vulnerable, and what to do about it: Temperatures in the UK recently breached 40°C for the first time in recorded history. The country is set to experience more frequent and more extreme heatwaves as carbon emissions continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. Heatwaves have worrying implications …