Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
Top Insights
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.
ISBN 978-1-912938-24-7
THEMATIC CHAPTERS
The threats of technology to minority and indigenous rights / Michael Caster, 17
Empowering minorities and indigenous peoples through technology / Nicole Girard, 42
The challenges of technology and sustainable development: Some reflections on the future of the SDGs for minorities and indigenous peoples / Carolyn Stephens, 59
AFRICA
Cameroon: Confronting environmental injustice and illegal logging in the rainforest through indigenous-led technology / Simon Hoyte, 78
Democratic Republic of Congo: As global demand for cobalt soars, child miners pay the price / Hamimu Masudi, 83
Kenya: For Turkana pastoralists struggling with drought, mobile finance offers a lifeline / Hamimu Masudi, 86
Tanzania: For people with albinism, hate speech and discrimination have moved online / Hamimu Masudi, 89
AMERICAS
Central America: For migrants crossing national borders or connecting across 'the wall', communication technologies play a vital role / Michele F. Ferris Dobles, 96
Ecuador: Indigenous activists are finding ways to use technology to secure their rights, but barriers remain / Gilda Paulina Palacios Herrera, 101
United States: Equitable smart city design in San Francisco / Mariah Grant, 104
United States: Confronting environmental degradation through indigenous activism / Alicia Kroemer, 110
ASIA AND OCEANIA
Cambodia: Protecting indigenous resources with a community-based monitoring app, 118
China: International firms are benefitting from Chinese technologies used to persecute Uyghurs and other minorities, 122
India: The dissemination of misinformation on WhatsApp is driving vigilante violence against minorities / Shakuntala Banaji and Ram Bhat, 129
Nepal: For persons with disabilities from minority and indigenous communities, the greatest barrier to accessing assistive technologies is discrimination / Pratima Gurung, 135
Pacific: For indigenous communities, new seabed mining technologies could begin 'the biggest land grab in history' / Joshua Cooper, 141
Pakistan: 'The virus has turned every facet of life upside down'. Privacy and data protection concerns in the wake of Covid-19 / Haroon Baloch, 146
EUROPE
Belgium: Digitalization to unlock human rights to sign language. Yes, but at what cost? / Alexandre Bloxs, 152
Bulgaria: Using information technologies to achieve positive change for Roma / Alexey Pamporov, 157
Italy: Mining, migration and munitions in Sardinia: a linguistic minority struggles with economic decline / Riccardo Labianco, 162
Norway: Saami communities contend with the latest form of discrimination: 'green colonialism' / Oula-Antti Labba, 167
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Egypt: Copts continue to suffer the effects of hate speech online, 174
Iran: For religious minorities, biometric identity cards threaten to become a new tool for surveillance and discrimination / Miriam Puttick, 178
Iraq: Documenting human rights violations in conflict: the Ceasefire online reporting tool / Miriam Puttick, 181
Lebanon: For Syrian refugees, discrimination is the greatest barrier to accessing Covid-19 testing / Rasha Al Saba, 185
The threats of technology to minority and indigenous rights / Michael Caster, 17
Empowering minorities and indigenous peoples through technology / Nicole Girard, 42
The challenges of technology and sustainable development: Some reflections on the future of the SDGs for minorities and indigenous peoples / Carolyn Stephens, 59
AFRICA
Cameroon: Confronting environmental injustice and illegal logging in the rainforest through indigenous-led technology / Simon Hoyte, 78
Democratic Republic of Congo: As global demand for cobalt soars, child miners pay the price / Hamimu Masudi, 83
Kenya: For Turkana pastoralists struggling with drought, mobile finance offers a lifeline / Hamimu Masudi, 86
Tanzania: For people with albinism, hate speech and discrimination have moved online / Hamimu Masudi, 89
AMERICAS
Central America: For migrants crossing national borders or connecting across 'the wall', communication technologies play a vital role / Michele F. Ferris Dobles, 96
Ecuador: Indigenous activists are finding ways to use technology to secure their rights, but barriers remain / Gilda Paulina Palacios Herrera, 101
United States: Equitable smart city design in San Francisco / Mariah Grant, 104
United States: Confronting environmental degradation through indigenous activism / Alicia Kroemer, 110
ASIA AND OCEANIA
Cambodia: Protecting indigenous resources with a community-based monitoring app, 118
China: International firms are benefitting from Chinese technologies used to persecute Uyghurs and other minorities, 122
India: The dissemination of misinformation on WhatsApp is driving vigilante violence against minorities / Shakuntala Banaji and Ram Bhat, 129
Nepal: For persons with disabilities from minority and indigenous communities, the greatest barrier to accessing assistive technologies is discrimination / Pratima Gurung, 135
Pacific: For indigenous communities, new seabed mining technologies could begin 'the biggest land grab in history' / Joshua Cooper, 141
Pakistan: 'The virus has turned every facet of life upside down'. Privacy and data protection concerns in the wake of Covid-19 / Haroon Baloch, 146
EUROPE
Belgium: Digitalization to unlock human rights to sign language. Yes, but at what cost? / Alexandre Bloxs, 152
Bulgaria: Using information technologies to achieve positive change for Roma / Alexey Pamporov, 157
Italy: Mining, migration and munitions in Sardinia: a linguistic minority struggles with economic decline / Riccardo Labianco, 162
Norway: Saami communities contend with the latest form of discrimination: 'green colonialism' / Oula-Antti Labba, 167
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Egypt: Copts continue to suffer the effects of hate speech online, 174
Iran: For religious minorities, biometric identity cards threaten to become a new tool for surveillance and discrimination / Miriam Puttick, 178
Iraq: Documenting human rights violations in conflict: the Ceasefire online reporting tool / Miriam Puttick, 181
Lebanon: For Syrian refugees, discrimination is the greatest barrier to accessing Covid-19 testing / Rasha Al Saba, 185
