October 2018 – Small Nations Alliance

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Justice for Survivors of ISIS: The Plight of Yazidi Women

Palestine: Authorities Crush Dissent

Cities Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Aid Cuts to Palestine

Catalonia: Council of the Republic to be launched on Oct 30 in Barcelona

Torra calls summit for dialogue on Catalonia for November 16

EU resolution could see Francisco Franco Foundation banned

Puigdemont calls right to self-determination ‘a tool for peace’

Catalonia: unemployment rate lowest since 2008

Catalan president vindicates declaration of independence one year on

In support for Kanak independence movement Maohi leader Temaru joins campaign trail in New Caledonia

Campaigning starts officially for New Caledonia referendum

New Caledonians at a crossroad of destiny

Human Rights body issues warning prior to New Caledonia vote

Bolton in Azerbaijan: U.S. Will Continue To Support Peaceful Solution Of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Pashinian’s Bid To Force Snap Elections In Armenia Moves Ahead

Bolton in Armenia: After Elections, ‘No Better Time’ For Armenia To Resolve Nagorno-Karabakh Issue

Tens of thousands rally for Taiwan independence vote

Russia is forcing Crimeans to serve in Russian army

Russian authorities dig up ancient Muslim necropolis to build highway in occupied Crimea

Russia launches new attack on Crimean Solidarity & lawyers defending political prisoners

Two Muslims get huge prison sentences for teaching their faith in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses same methods of persecution against Crimean Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Haley demands UN punish Cuba, Bolivia after ‘mob scene’ at US event for Cuban political prisoners

Russian Patriarch Cuts Short Planned Visit to Moldova

Indigenous Sámi community weighs in on truth and reconciliation process

Sights And Sounds Of Discontent In Turkmenistan

Xinjiang Authorities Jail Prominent Uyghur Television Host

Inside China’s internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks

China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes

The Yaaku sad as efforts to revive dying language fail

Tokelau’s newspapers foster language and bring home youth

Scottish Gaelic Awards 2018: The fantastic finalists are revealed

Language ambassadors part of Scotland’s first Gaelic tourism strategy

The Welsh government has a plan to make smart home devices speak Welsh

Welsh Language Isn’t Dead, But Your Opinion of It Is

How do you have sex in the Irish language?

Irish spoken inside the House of Commons for the first time since records began

Larung Gar residents prohibited from celebrating Buddhist festival

Around 35 Tibetan NGO activists detained after protests against Chinese delegation in Delhi

Tibet: Parliament in Exile in Unofficial Talks with Chinese Government

New Zealand firms looting of Sahrawi phosphate hinders UN peace process

Minister proposes Irish, East Timor models for Kashmir solution

West Papuans remain peacefully defiant as Indonesian Police storm Congress of the West Papua National Committee

The forgotten genocide of Somaliland

Somaliland: Biggest Liaison Office Abroad Opened in Kenya

El Salvador issues arrest order for Archbishop Romero’s killer

Young Catholics urge Vatican to issue inclusive LGBTQ message

Vatican ‘suffragettes’ want vote, change, in a man’s Church

Vatican stalls on married Catholic priests

Jamaica wants reggae on UNESCO cultural heritage list

Bitter taste for Cuba as it imports sugar for the first time

The Hungarian Uprising of October ’56

Island diplomacy: a storm in the Maldives

Rohingya deserve dignity and a safe home

Black and Indigenous: prisoners of mixed heritage face institutional ignorance

Neo-Nazi C14 vigilantes appear to work with Kyiv police in latest ‘purge’ of Roma

Montreal all-girls school honours missing and murdered Indigenous women with dress project

Taiwan indigenous musician sounds clarion call for cultural, environmental well-being

From ‘Aboriginal’ to ‘Indigenous’ in the Justin Trudeau era

Alaska Natives Call on Banks to Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge From Drilling

How long before Dalit Bahujan Adivasi women can say #MeToo?

Adivasi children take to streets to protest Naxal barbarism

Adivasis gear up for Kumram Bheem commemoration

Navajo stories turned into comic books

Facing Arizona: I want to inspire Navajo children to be successful

Nunavut Inuit to explore self-government

Hmong: Alarming Crackdown on the ChaoFa in LPDR

World Sindhi Congress Holds 30th Annual Conference in London

Chittagong Hill Tracts: UN Development Program to Improve Indigenous Quality of Life

“If you stay alive”: Kadyrov offers Ingush to organize rally in Chechnya

Kadyrov Aspires To Annex Far More Of Ingushetia As Well As An Entire District Of Daghestan

From Volga River to Yenisei River: barometer of living standards in Russian regions

Equatorial Guinea frees 34 opposition figures

Comoros island inches back to life after uprising

George Weah declares public universities in Liberia tuition-free after fee-hike protest

Liberia rape scandal shifts aid sector spotlight

In Laos, a World Bank ‘model’ dam and the myth of sustainable hydropower

‘An Attack on Belarus Is an Attack on Russia,’ Moscow Warns

Moscow’s ‘Article Five’ Guarantee to Belarus: First Step Toward Permanent Russian Base?

‘Deteriorating’ human rights in Belarus amounts to ‘wholescale oppression’: UN expert

Lukashenko: Belarus ready to “engage” in Donbas conflict settlement

Nicki Minaj contributing to relief efforts after her native Trinidad is devastated by floods

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