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Racism in Australia
Racism in Australia spans terra nullius, the White Australia policy (Immigration Restriction Act 1901 to Migration Act 1973), the Stolen Generations, the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and 1995 vilification provisions, and Scanlon survey findings on discrimination and social cohesion.
Rag-and-bone man
Rag-and-bone man, also called totter or bone-picker: an itinerant collector of rags, bones, and scrap, a precursor of modern recycling in Britain from the Middle Ages, declined by the 1980s, revived as van-based scrap collecting.
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton)
Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton): the original Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity, a 1969 Chicago multiracial alliance of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Young Lords, and Young Patriots, distinct from Jesse Jackson's later Rainbow PUSH.
Roblox ban protests in Russia
Roblox ban protests in Russia: children's and parents' demonstrations and 63,000 complaint letters after Roskomnadzor blocked Roblox on December 3, 2025, over child-safety and LGBT-propaganda claims; the ban was lifted June 10, 2026.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges (Ruby Nell Bridges Hall), American civil rights activist who at age six desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, escorted by federal marshals, later founding the Ruby Bridges Foundation.
Runaway (dependent)
Runaway (dependent): a minor in child welfare or foster care who leaves a state-supervised placement without permission. Covers prevalence, causes, justice-system and permanency risks, and US federal RHY program responses.
Safia Farkash
Safia Farkash (صفية فركاش), also Safia Farkash Al-Barassi, is the widow of Muammar Gaddafi, his second wife since 1970, mother of seven of his eight children, a UN-sanctioned individual from 2011, and majority shareholder of Buraq Air.
Savannah Gankiewicz
Savannah Mari Gankiewicz (born 1995) is an American pageant titleholder, Miss Hawaii USA 2023 and Miss USA 2023 by succession after Noelia Voigt's May 2024 resignation; fifth Hawaiian Miss USA, first from Maui in over 20 years.
Sectarianism in Glasgow
Sectarianism in Glasgow: Protestant-Catholic tension expressed chiefly through the Old Firm football rivalry, marches, and religion-linked identity, with strong perceptions (88%) but low reported personal experience.
Sex Matters (advocacy group)
Sex Matters is a UK human-rights charity and advocacy group (CIO 1207701, registered 3 April 2024), co-founded by Maya Forstater, campaigning on biological sex, single-sex services, and women's sport.
Sex segregation in Saudi Arabia
Sex segregation in Saudi Arabia separates unrelated men and women in public spaces, workplaces, and schools; ikhtilat (mixing) was long the contested concept, enforced by the Mutaween, then relaxed after 2016 Vision 2030 reforms lifted driving and guardianship restrictions.
Sixties Scoop
The Sixties Scoop, also known as the Canada Scoops, was the mass removal of Indigenous children in Canada to non-Indigenous homes from the late 1950s into the 1980s.
Slavery in Mauritania
Slavery in Mauritania is hereditary, descent-based servitude of Haratines to Beydane masters. Abolished by ordinance in 1981, criminalized in 2007, strengthened by 2015 and 2020 laws; estimates range from 43,000 to 149,000 enslaved.
Source (journalism)
Source (journalism): the person, document, or origin supplying facts for a news story, also called 新闻来源. Covers attribution levels, anonymous-source rules, verification, and ethics codes from AP, Washington Post, and SPJ.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in Atlanta in 1957 and led by Martin Luther King Jr. until 1968, coordinated nonviolent civil rights campaigns including Birmingham and Selma, spurring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.
State funeral
State funeral: government-organized public funeral honoring heads of state, former leaders, or eminent citizens, with lying-in-state, processions, and military honours; Canadian entitlement rules, US Capitol traditions, and subnational variants.
Street children
Street children, also called street-connected children or children in street situations, are under-18s who depend on streets to live or work. Global numbers are unknown; the 100 million figure dates from 1989, and recent models suggest 10 to 15 million under strict definitions.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, "SNICK"), US civil rights organization founded April 1960 at Shaw University, Raleigh, by Ella Baker's sit-in leadership meeting; ran Freedom Rides, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma; turned to Black Power under Carmichael in 1966.
Uttawar forced sterilisations
Uttawar forced sterilisations: the 6 November 1976 police raid on the Meo Muslim village of Uttawar, Haryana, during India's Emergency, in which 180 of about 550 detained villagers were forcibly vasectomised, documented by the Shah Commission.
Vaccine Revolt
The Vaccine Revolt (Portuguese: Revolta da Vacina), also known as Quebra-Lampiões, was a popular uprising in Rio de Janeiro in November 1904 against a law making smallpox vaccination compulsory.
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (விடுதலை சிறுத்தைகள் கட்சி)
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (விடுதலை சிறுத்தைகள் கட்சி), the Liberation Panther Party, is a Dalit-led Tamil Nadu party founded in 1982, led by Thol. Thirumavalavan, and in electoral politics since 1999.
Viola Desmond
Viola Desmond (1914-1965) was an African Nova Scotian businesswoman jailed in 1946 for refusing to leave the whites-only main floor of New Glasgow's Roseland Theatre; pardoned in 2010, honored on Canada's $10 note.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT), pronounced "vehement," is an environmental movement urging people to stop reproducing so Earth's biosphere can recover, named by Les Knight in the late 1980s.
Whitney Houston memorial service
Whitney Houston memorial service: private invitation-only homegoing funeral, February 18, 2012, New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, about 1,500 attendees, streamed by AP, burial February 19 at Fairview Cemetery, Westfield.
Working poor
Working poor: people employed for substantial periods yet below a poverty line. Also called in-work poverty. US BLS counts 6.1 million (3.8% of long-term labor force, 2023); EU in-work at-risk-of-poverty rate is 8.2%.
Young Lords
The Young Lords: Puerto Rican civil and human rights organization, founded as a Chicago street gang in 1959 and transformed in 1968 by José "Cha Cha" Jiménez; known for the 13 Point Program, Rainbow Coalition, Garbage Offensive, and Lincoln Hospital occupation.