Unicode Consortium

Emojis for 2019 will have 55 characters with different gender, skins colours

The list of draft candidates will be reviewed and finalised in the next meeting in September.

Unicode Consortium shortlists 179 new emoji candidates for 2019

The shortlisted emoji includes representation of a person with hearing impariment as well.

Bikini emoji doesn’t represent all, women propose one-piece swimsuit emoji instead

Two women have stood up against the bikini being the only bathing suit in the emoji lexicon.

Unicode 10 officially releases adding 8,518 new characters

The Unicode 10 has officially been announced on 20 June 2017, and the release slated that a total of 8,518 characters have been added to the directory.

New emojis such as a hijab-wearing woman, yoga practitioners and more coming on smartphones next year

The consortium that approves emojis has signed off new ones, including a woman wearing a hijab, woman breastfeeding a baby and a person doing yoga.

Gendered emoji alienates transgenders, genderqueer and stereotypes men and women

Adding coloured and gendered emoji introduces racial and gender differences in a character set that had neither.

Apple goes for racial diversity; to release non-white faces emoji in next iOS update

Smiley emoji, sad emoji, hearts emoji, and now, for the first time, racially diverse emoji.

250 new emojis coming soon: Flip off your friends with a virtual middle finger