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Join us August 1, 2020 1:30PM PM EDT-5:00 PM EDT on Zoom for a free training on how to effectively edit Wikipedia with a focus on topics related to Black and Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). The event will have a speial focus on women, media, and emancipation.
The acronym "BIPOC" refers to "black, indigenous, and other people of color" and aims to emphasize the historic oppression of black and indigenous people. The term " colored " was originally equivalent in use to the term "person of color" in American English , but usage of the appellation "colored" in the Southern United States gradually came ...
Sindhis are predominantly Muslim, but have a minority Hindu population, making up the largest Hindu minority population in Pakistan. [19] Sindhi Muslim culture is highly influenced by Sufi doctrines and principles and some of the popular cultural icons of Sindh are Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai , Lal Shahbaz Qalandar , Jhulelal and Sachal Sarmast .
In Canada, a visible minority (French: minorité visible) is defined by the Government of Canada as "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour". [1] The term is used primarily as a demographic category by Statistics Canada , in connection with that country's Employment Equity policies.
Much of the decrease in minority populations in Pakistan has occurred due to the events surrounding Partition, and the wars of 1965 and 1971. [11] Forced conversions and marriages occur largely in rural and backward areas in Pakistan. November 2019, Pakistan formed parliamentary committee to stop the act of forced conversion in the country. [12]
Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals.
"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America
The Rights of Minorities in the Islamic State (Urdu: Islami riyasat main zimmiun ke huquq) is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, published in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954. In it Maududi references the millet system and its organization along communal lines as a possible way the Islamic state would deal with minority rights according to the ...