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Listen to a South African mother tell the story of le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender people in her community, including her le***an daughter, and the fight to live Free & Equal.

Find out more about UN Free and Equal’s campaign for the fair treatment of LGBT people at: http://j.mp/1iOIdVR

To emphasize the extent of global gender inequality, UN Women has created a powerful advertising campaign that uses data collected from Google on the most popular search terms. As it turns out, the most popular Google queries are indicative of entrenched sexist attitudes that still persist today.

New Ad Campaign Uses Popular Search Terms to Show How the World Really Feels About Women | TIME.com A campaign from UN Women places popular search terms about women in front of portraits.

an interesting little something about Christopher Columbus, colonialism and Bartholome de las Casas

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal A note from the author: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus hims...

Postgraduates have until Friday (the 20th) to submit a proposal for this University of Edinburgh mini conference -

Artists across the wider Middle East have responded with an outburst of creativity – from murals to poems, rap to adaptations of Shakespeare – to the political change which is still unfolding in diverse ways across the region. But what does it mean for art – defined broadly as including literature, film, music, visual and physical arts – to be linked to resistance and rebellion in the Middle East? Does art affect/effect political, social and economic change, or merely reflect it? Is political art a middle class distraction or a key part of the revolution? And in a world of globalised social media, who are the audiences for political art coming from the Middle East, and how has that changed?

Resistance and Art Graduate conference, University of Edinburgh, 16th November 2013

Today at the Temple of Peace - Cyfanfyd is offering a free one day workshop for organisations and individuals working in race equality and community cohesion.

The workshop, which is taking place between 9.30am and 4.00pm, will be held in the council chamber of Cardiff’s Temple of Peace and will aim to explore the ways in which ESDGC can be integrated into race equality education and community cohesion work.

The workshop will also provide an opportunity for professional development and networking for organisations and individuals who are part of the Cyfanfyd Southern Voices Network.