We are engaged in a vital struggle, in a brutal time. With authoritarianism and nativism rising, Council of Minorities always fighting to protect basic rights. We are working with communities who have been vilified and excluded to secure the documents that prove their citizenship. We are challenging broken health systems and unlawful pollution. We proved that community paralegals and their clients can take on some of the toughest forms of injustice and win. And we built the first global network dedicated to legal empowerment. We are called in this moment to do much more. Our world is profoundly unequal. Authoritarians are responding to this inequality by scapegoating minorities and promising to turn systems upside down.

We have an alternative: deepening democracy rather than giving up on it. Transforming institutions rather than abandoning them. Succeeding in this struggle is going to require much more of us, from many more of us. I hope all of you will be a part of it.

With love and respect
Khalid Hussain

Minority Cafe

The Minority Café will be a dynamic, digital platform—part social forum, part knowledge commons, and part solidarity network—designed to serve as an interactive, community-driven space for marginalized voices. Drawing on elements of social media, community organizing tools, and human rights advocacy platforms, its interface will be intuitive, multilingual, accessible, and secure—centered around community ownership and transnational participation.

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This is especially critical in a global climate where civic space is shrinking, and human rights defenders—particularly those from minoritized communities—are increasingly under threat. By fostering cross-border dialogue and collaboration, the Minority Café helps protect and amplify the work of these defenders. It provides them with a space to organize, strategize, and find strength in shared experience—all within a digital framework that respects nonviolence, intersectionality, and international legal protections.

WHO WE ARE

The Minority Café is conceived as a digital common—a rights-based and inclusive space that centers the experiences, voices, and strategies of communities that have been historically minoritized by dominant national narratives and policies. It is a virtual gathering place for dialogue, solidarity-building, and mutual learning across identities and geographies—particularly among those affected by the sharp edges of majoritarian politics, whether these manifest in racial hierarchies, caste oppression, religious intolerance, ethnic marginalization, or gender-based exclusion.

At its core, the Minority Café is a space of acknowledgment: one that recognizes that the condition of being a “minority” is often not an inherent or numerical reality, but the outcome of state-constructed hierarchies of belonging. It is a space where groups who have been rendered invisible, stateless, voiceless, or criminalized can reassert their agency and narrate their own histories of struggle, survival, and resistance. In doing so, the Café challenges the structural violence embedded in the logic of nation-state exclusion, and affirms the right of all peoples to dignity, cultural expression, and full participation in public life.