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Mongol Identity dictionary definition campaign influences the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary to remove the outdated terms “mongol”, ‘mongoloid’, and ‘mongolism’.

Even the dictionary can be out of date.

To mark World Education Day on 24th January 2021, Mongol Identity launched a campaign for improved dictionary definitions of the word ‘Mongol’ to help counter racism and discrimination against people with disabilities. We approached the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and are very pleased with the outcome.

On 21st January 2021, Mongol Identity held a discussion on the new Human Rights Law in Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Human Rights Consortium.  A National Taskforce is putting together recommendations to the Scottish Government for a new human rights law. This law would build on existing human rights laws to strengthen how all our rights are protected.

Our campaign for improved dictionary definitions of the word ‘Mongol’ to help counter racism and discrimination against people with disabilities.

To mark World Education Day on 24th January 2021, we are launching our campaign for improved dictionary definitions of the word ‘Mongol’ to help counter racism and discrimination against people with disabilities

If you hear someone described as a ‘Mongol’, what is your first reaction? Do you assume that the person is from Mongolia? Or that the speaker is talking in derogatory terms about someone with Down’s Syndrome? Or that it is an insult hurled at someone who has done something stupid?

This movie is about Mongolian nomadic lifestyle that is subtly connected with nature and natural phenomena of survival. Nomadic herders have developed animal handling methods that thrived through thousands of years- long practice. One of them is the soothing therapy for mother animals that have rejected their new-born due to the difficult birth process or after-delivery complication besides the first time births, which is quite similar to the human pathology of postpartum syndrome.