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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
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303 April 23: Catalonia: Sant Jordi’s Day
1915 April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
1916 April 24: Proclamation of the Irish Republic commences the Easter Rising
1974 April 25: Carnation Revolution in Portugal
1937 April 26: Bombing of Guernica, Basque Country
1961 April 27: Sierra Leone Independence Day
1994 April 27: Freedom Day in South Africa, first post-apartheid elections
1960 April 27: Togo Independence Day
1707 May 1: the Act of Union of Scotland and England
May 1/Nissan 27: Yom HaShoah, Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day
1963 May 1: The Day of Terror: colonial Indonesian military arrive in West Papua
May 3: World Press Freedom Day
1990 May 4: Latvian Independence Restoration Day
May 8/Iyar 5: Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day
1877 May 10: Romania Independence Day
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Traditional knowledge at ‘core’ of indigenous heritage, and ‘must be protected’, says UN Forum
Indigenous leaders at UN meeting push for decade dedicated to language revitalization
UN’s Empty Promises to World’s Indigenous Peoples
Interpol rescues 157 child slaves in Benin, Nigeria
Deadly shooting at California synagogue
Hong Kong court imprisons ‘Umbrella Movement’ leaders for up to 16 months
The U.K.—If You Can Believe It—May Soon Face Yet Another Referendum
Indyref2: First Minister sets out plans for vote before 2021
Nicola Sturgeon also unveils plan for Scottish Citizens’ Assembly
Scotland’s only pro-independence newspaper launches ‘10,000 Steps’ Independence Campaign
Whites score big against blacks – land compensation
Balochistan: Iranian forces execute a Baloch youth in Isfahan prison
Pakistan: Baloch Insurgents who Perpetrated Coast Attack Came from Iran
Pakistan urges Iran to take ‘visible actions’ against Baloch terror groups
Balochistan: Enforced-disappearances continue unabated
Balochistan: Two educationists shot dead in Zabul and Jalq
Papuan organisers of public prayer event charged with treason
Papuans challenge Indonesian rule at country’s highest court
Arnold Ap. Legendary West papuan folk singer assassinated by Indonesia on April 26th, 1984
CIA claims Huawei is funded by Chinese state security
China Exploits Fleet of U.S. Satellites to Strengthen Police and Military Power
When Will the UN’s Chief Speak Up for the Uighurs?
Two More Ethnic Mongolians Jailed in China, WeChat Groups Deleted
Finland and Uganda are the world’s fittest countries
what it’s like to be a romani teenage girl
Populist rulers across the globe increasingly navigate towards Kremlin: Hans Binnendjik
Russia Sees Its Future in China and Eurasia
National film to be screened in Tatarstan
ICR resumes investigation into tortures of Ingush boxer who told about planted gun
Activist’s Home Searched In Ingushetia After Protests Over Chechnya Border Deal
Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on Earth. It’s producing some of Russia’s hottest punk rock
US bars Chechnya PM over human rights
Russian FSB Says Two Participants In Basayev’s 1999 Attack On Daghestan Detained
A quest to reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘reservation’
‘Invisible’ American Indian women say they need help to stop sexual violence
American Indian Leaders Call for Congress to End Voter Suppression
Native Communities and the Revival of Rural America: A Linked Set
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
More than 60 cities and states in the US no longer observe Columbus Day
Jharkhand: Adivasi ‘Lynched’ to Death by Mob Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, Says Report
Hindu Nationalism, The Growing Trend In India
Indigenous protesters march on Brazil Congress over land rights
Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands
Brazil’s congress receives indigenous leaders amid protests
Reviving Brazil’s indigenous languages
Indigenous people debut shareholder activism in Brazil
‘Now belongs to us’: Women take lead in Brazil’s indigenous fight
Brazil’s indigenous tribes protest Bolsonaro assimilation plan
Canadian Museum Association Receives $1 Million to Foster Reconciliation With Indigenous Peoples
$220 Million Available To Small Businesses To Cleanup Navajo Uranium Mines
One of the last monolingual Cherokee speakers dies at age 88
Cornish National Minority – Five Years of ‘Manifest Failure’
Ukraine has gotten over Russia but Russia hasn’t gotten over Ukraine, Shevtsova says
Putin offers Russian citizenship to Ukrainians in separatist-held areas
Russia intends to further destabilize Ukraine – EU
Ukraine adopts law expanding scope of Ukrainian language
Crimean Tatars: ‘Religious persecution made us more strong and united’
CRIMEA: Residents “don’t believe” FSB allegations against imam
Ukrainian Orthodox Church congregation refused registration in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia sentences Crimean activist to six years for social media posts
Disabled and gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner denied medication
South China Sea: Vietnam secretly building TEN islands risking infuriating China
South China Sea: Trump ‘SCARED’ of triggering war with China says President Duterte
Massacre in Mali: How ‘preventing terror’ is fuelling it
Thousands protest in Morocco for release of Rif activists
Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival to Premiere Moroccan Amazigh Amussu Film
High Council of Amazigh emphasize rejection to Haftar’s military campaign against Tripoli
Welsh-speaking voice box allows Anglesey man to talk in own voice again
English and Welsh medium pupils could learn alongside each other in a new Cardiff school
Carol Vorderman calls on the Welsh to help her learn the language
How Welsh independence burst into the mainstream
Ireland takes steps towards cementing Wales and Scotland as allies
Peter Stockland: Toll of violence cannot deter course of Ireland reuniting
Could Brexit Unite Ireland At Last?
Brexit lights touchpaper for next political firestorm – Irish unity
A Journalist’s Funeral Shows Northern Ireland’s Progress, and Its Regressions
Lyra McKee’s funeral aims to heal Northern Irish divisions
Sickening return of Ireland’s “men of violence” in New IRA
Journalist’s Death Jolts Northern Ireland Politicians Back to Negotiating Table
Sinn Féin ‘will not capitulate’ on Irish language act
Unionist grassroots support for Irish language could unlock North talks logjam
Eswatini walking tightrope to become Africa’s trade hub
Taiwan Unveils Comprehensive Measures to Ban Chinese Tech From Government
POLISARIO Front representative takes part in 149th Vladimir Lenin birth anniversary
Anti far-right protesters clash with Basque Country police outside Vox Bilbao rally
Child marriage widely tolerated in Kurdistan Region IDP camps
Elite US Navy SEAL facing war crimes charges for killings in Iraq
Top French court rejects ISIS nationals demands for repatriation from Syria
Christians and Muslims celebrate Easter together in Duhok village
U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Threatens Revival of Kurdish Language, Too
Families of martyrs in Kobani launch petition to start formal trials against ISIS suspects
Pro-Kurdish HDP says victims of Armenian genocide deserve apology
Kurds in Germany on hunger strike in front of Turkish embassy to protest Afrin occupation
Coalition stats show ISIS reemerging in Iraq, but defeated (for now) in Syria
Collapse of rule of law in Erdoğan’s Turkey
UK police arrest, evict 21 Kurdish hunger strike activists from Amnesty building
Iraq demands US Embassy delete ‘offensive’ Facebook post on Iran’s Khamenei
Dutch government repatriates Yezidi asylum seekers to camps in Kurdistan Region
Yezidi spiritual leaders clarify children of ISIS rape won’t be accepted
Nadia Murad: Yezidi mothers, families should decide fate of ISIS children
Kosovo brings back jihadist fighters and families from Syria
In Kosovo, a Teenage Girl’s Rape Case Stirs a #MeToo Fury
Observers Warn the Future Prospects of Two Dalai Lamas
China A “Festering” Black Hole When It Comes To Media
Nine Tibetans Are Jailed in Rebgong for Running an ‘Illegal Organization’ Claiming Land Rights
China Staging Mind-Control War Against Tibet
Forensically aged image of Panchen Lama released 24 years after his disappearance
Tibetan Singer Dies After Years of Bad Health Following Release from Jail
China is watching Western democracy eat itself
New Zealand and France to Seek Pact Blocking Extreme Online Content
New Place Names Lift Māori Culture in New Zealand’s Capital
William receives traditional Maori greeting from New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern
Alaska House of Representatives Passes Bill to Establish Hmong-American Veterans Day
Greenland is melting even faster than experts thought, study finds
Denmark’s richest man, Anders Holch Povlsen, loses 3 children in Sri Lanka attacks
Brunei defends stoning gay people to death in letter to EU
Bond 25 launches in Jamaica, Rami Malek to Play Villain
Djibouti: Chinese military’s first overseas support base
UN rules Iraq must compensate Kuwait oil company $240m for 1990-1991 invasion
Bahrain king reinstates citizenship for 551 nationals who lost it for anti-government protests
Suriname establishes 1st African Embassy in Accra
Montenegro fined over fans’ racist chants against England
Hungary to promote Chinese relations in Europe
Panama tribunal rules ex-President Martinelli cannot run in election
China provides Togo a new administrative center valued at XOF18 billion
Mauritania “blasphemy blogger” still in jail
Southern Spanish town mocks Puigdemont shooting figure of him
‘We executed evil’: Spanish village shoots and burns effigy of ex-Catalan leader
Vox: newcomer alt-right party preaching a return to old Spain
Ciutadans: opposing Catalan independence to rule Spain
Spanish PM Sanchez fends off attacks on Catalonia, other issues as election nears
Catalan government files lawsuit against Puigdemont shooting mockery
For World Book Day 2019, a new take on an old way to celebrate literature and love
Flowers, literature, dragons, love: this is Sant Jordi!
Catalan FM celebrates Sant Jordi’s with the speaker of UK Parliament
Former ministers say Catalan government aimed for agreed referendum
Spanish elections: Catalonia issue dominates first TV debate
Spain rivals clash over Catalonia in election debate
Spanish General Election Candidates Clash over Catalonia
Independence at center of televised debate – with no pro-independence parties
Catalan president calls on international community to help resolve political crisis
Jailed Òmnium Cultural president Jordi Cuixart to become father again in September
Unionist party leaders want Spanish as working language in all schools in Catalonia
Spanish Court backs current language policy in Catalonia’s schools
Buenos Aires Book Fair kicks off with Barcelona as guest of honour
Former FC Barcelona president not guilty after almost two years in jail
How the Spanish property market reacted to the Catalan crisis
Unemployment shrinks across Catalonia as Barcelona records lowest figure since 2008
Witnesses defend ‘plurality’ of Diplocat in Catalan trial
Everything you ever wanted to know about human towers
Catalan president Quim Torra says he’s ready to back Nicola Sturgeon on indyref2 push
Puigdemont calls unionist efforts to bar him from European election ‘desperate’
Puigdemont banned from EU elections
Spain must ‘analyze’ fall in perception of judicial independence, warns EU
Sixty Portuguese Politicians and Intellectuals Call for Freedom and Democracy in Catalonia
MEPs hail accused Romeva as ‘defender of human rights’
Jeremy Irons visits BCN Film Festival
Pro-independence ERC party gets historic Spanish election win
Massive turnout in Catalonia as Spain faces crucial election
A guide to the Spanish election and its impact on Catalonia
Socialists hope to govern alone as all sides dismiss potential Cs coalition
Vox celebrates ‘historic’ result in Spanish general election
UNESCO bid for Polynesia tattooing decried
Compensation sought for Tahitians affected by nuclear weapons tests
Estonia’s President Sends Wrong Message Meeting Putin
Latvian Saeima paves way for full opening of «KGB bag»
Lithuania bans Holocaust denier David Irving for 5 years
Latvian Saeima proposes celebrating 13 May as State Language Day
Moscow Lashes Out at Lithuanian Criminal Convictions of Soviet Officers
Beluga Whale With Russian Harness Raises Alarm In Norway
Facebook launches fact-checking campaign in Lithuania ahead of EU elections
In Paraguay, Fighting Graft With Eggs and Toilet Paper
Indigenous communities facing landlessness in Paraguay
Pacific climate migration a political tug of war
‘Pray For Me’: Nicaraguan Priest Threatened With Death Reaches Out To Niece In U.S.
A Young Poet, a Mysterious Stranger and an El Salvador on the Brink of War
Women of change in restive Kashmir
Women’s football team takes on sexism in Comoros
Austrian politician resigns after publishing ‘deeply racist’ poem comparing migrants to rats
Singapore PM promotes expected successor to deputy
Rwanda court repeals law banning satirical cartoons
Huawei to launch digital hub in Serbia
Chadians feel ‘anger, revolt’ as they struggle without internet for one year
Chad sets free Equatorial Guinea politician
Former Sierra Leone captain Kargbo among African internationals banned for life by Fifa
The world lost a Belgium-size area of old growth rainforest in 2018
In Slovakia, a murdered journalist and a pro-press president
Two Canadian women detained in Somaliland and sentenced to 40 lashes have been freed
The cost of systemic corruption in Honduras: Migration north
Honduran revolving door migrants ready to return to US
Letter from Africa: The art of drawing your address in The Gambia
Germany legend Monika Staab talks up football mission in Gambia
Ex-Gambia Presidential Aide Admits Ordering Execution of Coup Soldiers
Qatar opens Gaza artificial limb, rehab center after delays
India investigates 40 migrant workers in Gabon after U.N. flags labour abuses
Hariri – ‘Promising summer’ for Lebanon after Saudi travel warning lifted
UN force says third tunnel crossed Lebanon-Israel border
South Sudan Measles Outbreak Raises Questions About Vaccines
One of Worst African Wars May Revive, South Sudan Rebels Say
Tajikistan: Opposition figures pass through prison revolving doors
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies at 98
Elephant-Rich Nations to Send Leaders to Botswana Summit
Pirates Attack Two Fishing Boats off Somalia
Armenians Mark 104 Years Since Ottoman-Era Killings
A Trans Woman Got 3 Minutes to Speak in Armenia’s Parliament. Threats Followed.
Armenia’s LGBT+ community still waits for change one year after revolution
‘Killing Hope’: Turkmenistan’s List Of ‘Accepted’ Universities Deals (Another) Blow To Students
An evening with the soldier-poets of Guinea-Bissau
Bulgaria’s ‘apartmentgate’ infuriates struggling citizens
In Eritrea, Jailed Journalists Continue to Languish
Once A-Rated Oman Now Risks Descending Deeper Into Junk
Uruguay 1st in Latin America to export marijuana for medicinal use
In Laos, A Chinese-Funded Railway Sparks Hope For Growth — And Fears Of Debt
Rohingya camps in Bangladesh spawn a new civil society — and political violence
Rohingya trapped inside a ‘genocide zone’
Political Meddling, Poor Training Spur Graft in Papua New Guinea
Jordan in crucible of Middle East peace deal and Syrian refugee crisis
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