Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 8/2021

Challenging racism

At a memorial service in Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland, a Roma flag is displayed in memory of the Roma and Sinti murdered by the German Nazi regime in the Second World War.
Sinti and Roma

Sinti and Roma demand equality and participation

Racism and antiziganism are deeply rooted in European societies

Discrimination

Indonesia’s history of othering

Suharto’s authoritarian rule made life hard for Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese

Salesperson with skin-lightening product in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2016.
Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

The trade in skin-whitening creams is a sign of internalised racist ideas of beauty

More Articles

Super-rich philanthropists are a tiny minority everywhere: Aliko Dangote, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates at an event in New York City in 2019.
Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

African income disparities hamper the growth of a middle class

Online forum

#DalitLivesMatterNepal

Campaigning online for Dalit rights

Tribalism

Tribalism hides the gap between rich and poor

Kenya’s underlying class struggle needs to be addressed

Covid-19 has hit indigenous communities especially hard.
Prejudice

Mexico’s racial divide

Mexico’s ideology of mestizaje, or racial mixing, obscures ingrained racism

Shoppers in Jakarta’s Chinatown in February: Covid-19 has slowed down business.
Discrimination

Indonesia’s ethnic resentments

In spite of legal protections, Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese still face discrimination

Police officer taking a knee with Californian anti-racism activists.
Our view

Decoupling prosperity from skin colour

Racism persists because marginalised communities are largely excluded from positions of leadership

Police officers blocking a Dalit rally during Covid-19 lockdown in Kathmandu in May 2020.
Caste-based discrimination

Nepal must do much more to protect most vulnerable community

Despite legal protections, Nepal’s Dalits suffer serious discrimination

Celebrating the new constitution in May 1996: Nelson Mandela (then president), Frederik Willem de Klerk (deputy president) and Cyril Ramaphosa (chairman of the Constitutional Assembly).
Segregation

Revisiting South Africa’s segregationist past

Apartheid was a racist system designed to keep people of different skin colour “apart” in South Africa.

Protesters march in the Minneapolis suburb where, on 11 April 2021, a police officer killed Daunte Wright, a young Black man.
Blog

Anti-racists’ two-front struggle

Lessons from the history of racist ideas in the USA

Young Kenyans go to school, but employment opportunities remain rare.
Identity politics

Why Kenya’s president has fallen out with his deputy

Kenya is stuck in tribalism, and calls for national unity are all too often manipulative