Multicultural groups welcome federal government’s move to collect ethnicity data
ABC News: More and more countries around the globe are collecting ethnicity data to measure diversity. Andrew Giles, the new Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, says failure to collect data on ethnicity or race was a “fundamental barrier to understanding the issues that face multicultural Australians”. See what triggers the Australian federal government to follow the trend.
Disability Inclusion Is Coming Soon to the Metaverse
PCMag: Discover the way to see and to be seen. A project called Unhidden is working on providing people with disabilities with accurate avatars, meaning they’ll have the option to remain themselves in the metaverse and across Web3 to encourage more inclusion. “The characters with unseen disabilities are characterized by a special design of sunglasses to indicate their cognitive diversity.”
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Indigenous group meets pope, invite him to ancestral lands
Reuters: Pope Francis issued a historic apology to Indigenous peoples in Canada for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools that sought to erase their cultures and where many children suffered abuse and were buried in unmarked graves. About 150,000 children were taken from their families, many of them faced abuse, rape and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide”.The Pope is hoping to visit Canada in July.
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