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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

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No Porzingis, no Latvian Night for Knicks … what about Kurucs and Nets?

What’s it like growing up a Hmong immigrant in America?

Hmong: The Struggle of the Third Generation of Refugees over their Cultural Identity

Immigrants From Honduras and Nepal Are Suing the Trump Administration Over the End of Their Temporary Protected Status

Ethnic minority children in Birmingham more likely to be sentenced that white kids

Rohingya activists bemoan failure of Muslim countries to address Myanmar crisis

From Siberia To Freedom: The Odyssey Of The Czechoslovak Legion

Icelandic feast helps celebrate a piece of Spanish Fork history

Kathleen Hill: Basque celebrates its 25th anniversary and more

Refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi arrives in Australia after Bahrain extradition case dropped

Three Syrians arrested in Germany and France for suspected crimes against humanity

Parents of 2-year-old Kurdish girl shot by police granted legal stay in Belgium

Kurdish hunger strike in Strasbourg on day 63

Denied Iraqi citizenship, graduates from Rojava miss out on jobs

Tibetan woman elected student president in Canada, Chinese students enraged

Tibetan-Canadian student politician, Uyghur rights activists come under attack by Chinese students in Canada

Protests at Canadian Universities Raise Concerns About Chinese Government Involvement

Miami Belarusians Held Rally To Commemorate Missing Politicians And To Support Charter-97

Russia orders arrest of Crimean Tatar Mejlis member for ‘violating its territory’ by seeking to #LiberateCrimea

ISIS marauders now endanger victims who fled to Canada

Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

First stop for migrant kids: For-profit detention center

Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

Behind The Border ‘Crisis’: More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote Crossings

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All For Worse Degrees And Jobs


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

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US sees limitations in reuniting migrant families

Feds add to security barriers across river from migrant caravan

‘We need people’: Donald Trump says he wants to see more legal immigration in U.S.

400 West African Journalists trained on Migration Reporting since 2018, latest in Guinea-Bissau

Dozens of Ethiopians drown on forgotten migrant route off shores of Djibouti

Battling for Hmong heritage in Vietnam

Final children to leave Australia’s detention centers on Nauru

Uyghurs Of Kazakhstan Commemorate Victims Of 1997 Violence In Xinjiang

Ethnic Kazakh Faces Immediate Repatriation to China After Fleeing Country

Britain Seizes $650,000 From Son Of Jailed Former Moldovan Prime Minister

Russian propagandist Kiselyov’s nephew jailed in Germany for terrorism in Donbas

Swiss prosecutors end money-laundering probe against Equatorial Guinea leader’s son

28 Haitians die when boat sinks off Bahamas

A small Arizona town wants feds to remove razor wire from the border wall that runs through it

Latvian diaspora get-together to be held in Edinburgh in April

Ethnic minority pupils get worse degrees and jobs, even if they have better A-levels

Study finds a dearth of mental health interventions for ethnic minority youth in the US

Foreign Citizen Detained In Kyrgyzstan On Terrorism Charges

How Norwegian war refugees changed Swedish politics

Canada opens doors to some 750 ex-slaves from Libya

From sports to work, Rohingya women face new roles in world’s largest refugee camp

Different country, same feeling: Madison Tibetan community celebrates the new year

Pro-Tibet groups targeted with ExileRAT in spy campaign

Finding Kurdistan, a book about growing up in America and being from Kurdistan

Two Canadian women flee ISIS pocket, surrender to Kurdish forces

Tent fire at IDP camp in Kirkuk kills four children

Kurdish-Iranian journalist wins Australia’s most valuable literary prize

Yazidi women who escaped ISIS now facing threats, harassment in Canada

Dennis Christensen gets 6 years in first Russian sentence of a Jehovah’s Witness since Soviet times

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Silver Lining


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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Christian ‘beaten and threatened by Islamic extremists’ in hiding after UK deportation

UK issues visas to family of dying Pakistani man on compassionate grounds

Top Court Clears Way for Woman in Blasphemy Case to Leave Pakistan

Briton arrested in Somalia survives ‘jihadist’ razor-blade attack in prison

Latvian roots of world-renowned clown “Coco the Clown”

The Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Canadian Fiction

Archives of Uruguayan-Lithuanians arriving in Lithuania

Global push to free Bahrain soccer player in Thailand after extradition request issued

Hmong Americans Gain Political Representation

Muslim Uyghur survivors recount unspeakable horror in Chinese internment camps

Rohingya Refugees Create Music To Memorialize Culture For Future Generations

More than half of boys in UK young offenders’ institutions are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds

Baloch activists hold awareness campaign in London to highlight issue of missing persons

Island paradise of Curaçao becomes a living hell for Venezuelan migrants

Brexit day concerns for Scots EU citizens ‘at peak’

Burns in the USA: Bringing a Scottish tradition to America

‘We Have Succeeded In Surviving’: An Interview With Exiled Tajik Islamic Party Leader Muhiddin Kabiri

The Silver Lining of an Exodus: Bosnia Cashes In on Exit Fees

Dozens of migrants missing after 2 boats sink off Djibouti

Blatant racism by Azealia Banks against the Irish gets a free pass

New Archive Reclaims the Narrative of the Roma

Congolese children adopted in Belgium were trafficked after parents sent them to holiday camp, says federal inquiry

A Young Tibetan to Speak at 2019 Under 30 Global Women’s Summit

Tibetan community in exile honoured with Art for Peace Awards 2019

Hotspot of the week: Tibetan New Year

Lack of security, stability in Mosul prompts IDPs to return to Kurdistan Region camps

Chief of world’s Yezidis Mir Tahsin dead at 85

Body of late Yezidi leader repatriated from Germany to be buried in Kurdistan

Online Kurdish ISIS hunters fooled Dutch jihadist with fake wife

Climate change creates a new migration crisis for Bangladesh

New report reveals the Mediterranean’s rising death rate

Illegal Migrant Crossings Surge in Remote New Mexico Desert

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Most foreigners working


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

January 21: Martin Luther King Day

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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UK begins EU citizen registration amid uncertainty, stress

Italy’s Salvini slams France for migrant crisis: ‘I don’t take lessons on humanity and generosity from Macron’

Sex traffickers hold 20,000 Nigerian women and girls in Mali

Mexico screening for criminals in latest migrant caravan; Salvadoran gang member wanted in murder is nabbed

Study finds ‘alarming’ bias against minority ethnic candidates

Software Maker Oracle Is Accused of Grossly Underpaying Women and Minority Employees

Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, dies at 96

Estonians embezzled millions from Finland

Federated States of Micronesia consul seeks help for migrants trying to adjust to Guam life

Whatever the Basques did in Idaho, they clung to their unique culture

Irish nurses in Sydney hold demonstration supporting strike

Nicaraguan journalist flees to Costa Rica, fearing government threats

At Least 10 Australians Imprisoned in China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camp

Nashville Schools vote to add Kurdish to high school language class options

A world away from her native Tibet, she celebrates Losar — the Tibetan New Year — with traditional foods

Over 1,000 expats arrested this month in Oman

Most foreigners working in Slovakia are Serbs

Jordan’s PM: We need a more sustainable plan to help countries hosting refugees

Gruesome Laos deaths of Thai activists sends chill through dissident community in exile

Malta places poorly in expat safety survey

UN envoy: No prospect Rohingya refugees can go home soon

Libya: Nightmarish Detention for Migrants, Asylum Seekers

Chinese contribution to Guyanese literature

A section of Canadian Sikhs begins ‘Prove it or Remove it’ campaign

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Increasingly Looking for Work


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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As new US-bound caravan grows to more than 2,000, Mexicans lash out

Plight of Migrant Children in Spain Prompts Alarm

Thousands of migrants set up camps in Paris as authorities scramble to cope

Saudi teen asylum-seeker fleeing alleged abuse by family arrives in Canada

Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India after deportations

Russia Detains Belarusian Escort Claiming Trump Secrets

Missing ex-Interpol chief’s wife wants asylum in France

Inside the GM plant where nooses and ‘whites-only’ signs hung

Autobiography from 1831 provides rare, firsthand account of a Muslim slave in America

1,000 strangers answer the call, pack funeral of N.J. Vietnam veteran who died alone

Nigerian gangs trafficking children into Ireland for sex

Stoicescu: Russia seeks integration in Estonia in words alone

Government calls on Lithuanian expats in UK to return amid growing hard Brexit concerns

Economic assimilation of the Famine Irish in America

Latvian Diaspora’s Involvement in the Latvian State Independence Renewal Processes 1989–1991

Litvaks, Jews in Lithuania and antisemitism

Fate of ETA prisoners divides Spain

Idaho’s rich past impossible to examine without recognizing Basque culture

‘97% drop in Tibetan refugees arrival to India from Tibet’

‘China is after us’: Uighurs in Pakistan report intimidation

New migrant caravan leaves Honduras as US extends border troop deployment until September

Migrants depart from El Salvador as new U.S.-bound caravan forms

Honduran officials threaten prison time for migrant parents who travel illegally with minors

Lao Migrant Youth Increasingly Looking for Work in China

Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert

Guyanese MP flees to Toronto after receiving death threats for voting against his own government

Over 1,000 Rohingya flee India for Bangladesh fearing crackdown

Carpenters in Sicily handcraft crosses to draw attention to ongoing migrant crisis

Trump administration took thousands more migrant children from parents

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Ringing in 2969 with Ottawa’s Amazigh


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Saudi Woman Fleeing Family and Homeland Avoids Deportation From Thailand

Muslim youth group cleans up national parks amid government shutdown

51 Kurdish migrants rescued after boat sinks near Italian shore

Latvian president nominates US-born MEP Karins for PM

Belarusians Receive Almost Half Of All Visas Issued By EU Countries

Forget the US and Asia, the top 5 countries for expats are in Europe and the Middle East

Three children remain in limbo on Nauru, but hundreds of adults still await resettlement

Fears for Australian Uighurs trapped in China’s ‘re-education camps’

Turkey abandons Uighurs in favor of Chinese investment

Too little too late: ASEAN’s role in the plight of the Uyghurs

Eight-year-old girl dies as Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon hit by extreme winter weather

Ringing in 2969 with Ottawa’s Amazigh

26 things English people learn when they move to Wales

Yazidi women in Europe resorting to suicide to cope with alienation and trauma

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Building Lives


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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Hopeless in Hong Kong: China’s Squeeze Triggers Talk of a New Exodus

North Korean envoy to Italy vanishes. Did he defect?

Turkish NBA star won’t join team on London trip because of ‘lunatic’ Erdogan

West Papua refugees flee Indonesian chemical Weapons attack

Lawyer’s fears for ‘innocent’ Scot Jagtar Singh Johal

NFL: League under scrutiny for lack of minority coaches

Why most new immigrants to Israel aren’t considered Jewish

Estonian MP Madison hands over money collected for repair of Crimea’s Eesti Tare in Kiev

Ghost towns of Latvia try to woo young expats back

Australia’s unwanted refugees are living with ‘nightmares’ while building new lives in the US

A Defiant Interview in a Jail Cell, Soon to Turn Into a Murder Scene

Rohingya refugees left stranded in repatriation purgatory

Brexit has already created more than 4,500 jobs in Ireland

Moving back to Ireland was one of the hardest things we’ve ever done

Brexit sends Britons seeking Irish passports up 22 per cent in 2018

Is Ireland still no country for young people?

Clara Ponsatí: I fear I’ll not be able to go home until Catalonia is independent

Ace Tibetan lensman wins second award for excellence in photojournalism

Photo Story: Tibetan Sweater Sellers in Jaipur

Dalai Lama Returns to Dharamshala, Congratulates Nancy Pelosi

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In Limbo


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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West Papuans in exile: A conversation with Corry Ap

U.K.’s Underpaid Ethnic Minority Workers Lose $4 Billion a Year

More than half of UK ethnic minority citizens believe Brexit will stifle their career

Rohingya End Hard Year Still in Limbo

499 expat workers arrested in Oman

Fearing for their lives 60,000 people have fled Nicaragua

More children evacuated from Nauru

Fiji born officer shot and killed in California

Can Cuba Baseball Still Be Great When Many of Its Stars Have Left?

Cuba around the world: 60 years of weapons and white coats

We should have had ten children; some of them might have remained in Ireland

Top ‘Abroad’ stories this year mostly negative about Ireland

Russian border guards arrest 24 Kurdish tourists attempting to cross to Latvia

Dharamsala World Tourist Destination Due to Dalai Lama: CM at Modi Rally

Venezuela’s indigenous migrants face Colombia discrimination

Kalmyks In Russia Mark 75th Anniversary Of Deadly Stalin-Era Deportation

This poet put the Yazidi women’s suffering and strength into words

Family of fallen Yazidi interpreter finally finds hope, safety in Lincoln

Body of migrant girl who died in U.S. Border Patrol custody arrives home in Guatemala

Migrant caravans stall on border with no leaders and little hope

Social Media Doomed the Migrant Caravan

Group that escorts migrant caravans draws more scrutiny

Why the Hell Are We Locking Up Migrant Kids at All?

Arizona shelters helping migrant children separated from their families celebrate Christmas

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Left for the US. Forced to Beg


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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‘From One Grave To Another’: Afghan Hazara Fleeing Taliban Find Little Solace In Escape

Erasing The Rohingya: Point of No Return

Migrant caravan teens found stabbed to death in Tijuana

UN: Women migrants in Libya often face gang rape, abuse

If Syria crisis escalates, Kurdistan Region may see new wave of refugees: JCC Director-General

The 1984 Anti-Sikh riots – history and aftermath

Canadian Sikh Diaspora Unites to Seek Removal of Unfounded Remarks Maligning Image of Sikhs and Khalistan

Scores of Pakistani men search for their Uyghur Muslim wives who disappeared in China

The pregnant migrants risking life and limb to give birth on a French island colony

Hondurans who fled political violence fear for lives if sent home

Thousands march in Brussels against U.N. migration pact

Dead Guatemalan girl dreamed of sending money home to poor family

UN General Assembly endorses global migration accord

All the routine activities for which police were called on African-Americans this year

Report finds black non-Irish jobseekers five times more likely to face discrimination

Inspiring Irish dance teacher’s death a reminder: Reach out before it’s too late

Stuart McDonald wants end to festive ordeal for ‘Skype families’

Six locked up for forcing Bulgarians to beg in Sweden

How the dreadful Tignon Laws turned into a women’s only language in Suriname

A Historian Shares Insight About The Hmong American Experience

Marshall Islands: A third of the nation has left for the U.S.

Basque Foundation’s Annual Sheepherders Ball

Nearly 1 in 5 Tibetan Refugee Kids Have TB, Finds Study

University divided after police detained Ingush students

LGBTQ Chechens struggle to find their footing after fleeing to Canada

Prohibited From Speaking Quechua as Child, Peruvian Woman Now Professor of Quechua at Stanford

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Looking The Other Way


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How to Write a Letter to Santa Claus

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European Jews feel under threat, think of emigrating: EU survey

US Ramps Up Worksite Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants

Lost girls of Indonesia among 61k dead and missing migrants

Ethnic Uzbeks Flee Taliban in N. Afghanistan

Floating US Navy hospital ship treating Venezuelan migrants

UN: Venezuela exodus likely to swell to 5.3 million in 2019

Interview: ‘I Regret That I Didn’t Grow up in Tibet’

‘Why now?’ Anger grows over mention of Sikh extremism in Canadian terror threat report

Free Balochistan Movement hold protests to mark ‘International Human Rights Day’

Diasporama #69 : Natij Benseddiq, an Amazigh journalist in the Netherlands

A different Hmong New Year

UK grant-makers accused of bias against ethnic minority-led charities

UK minority-led firms more likely to face survival threats

Ukraine, Lithuania sign agreement to protect migrant workers’ rights

Indigenous groups call for attention to climate-forced migration

Cyprus sees surge in migrants crossing from breakaway north

Uighur families pay price for relatives’ U.S.-based reporting

Tajik Blogger Attacked: Moscow Cop Looks The Other Way

Russian Opposition Politician Granted Asylum in Lithuania

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