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Championing inclusive societies

Millions of people miss out on basic rights because they are different. We work with minorities and indigenous peoples in defence of their rights.

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Human Rights Organizations: Right to Return for North Sinai Residents is Fundamental, and Military Trials are invalid

These policies continue to disregard human rights, first and foremost the right to return to their lands.

International Contest for Minority Artists 2025: Belonging, Place and Loss

Artists who identify as belonging to a minority are invited to submit high-quality electronic images of up to five works of art related to the 2025 theme of the Contest. 

DRC: Provincial Decree may legitimize violence against the Batwa Indigenous Peoples

We fear that this order’s indiscriminate prohibition of all individuals will be used to legitimate violence against Batwa.

Stories of Solastalgia: Book Launch

We explore how political decisions and environmental policies often labelled as ‘protection’ or ‘development’ measures impact the well-being of land-dependent communities.

State absence and self-reliance in Colombia

The long-term absence of the State has provided these communities with a very meaningful self-determination of a quite particular kind.

International minority art exhibition

The 22 artists featured in this exhibition act, each in their own way, as human rights defenders.

Joint statement: It’s time for the OECD to walk the talk on human rights

The OECD’s reforms would widen racial and gender inequality both between and among countries.

The difference between life and death: indigenous maternal mortality

Tackling these ethnic disparities in maternal mortality is critically important for indigenous and minority communities.

Strengthening Moroccan Civil Society

These diverse participants share a common commitment: advocating for human rights, minority protections, and a more inclusive civic space in Morocco.

Violations in Lebanon must urgently be investigated

The human rights and humanitarian situations in Lebanon are spiraling out of control.

Justice served: The Batwa of Kahuzi-Biega and the failure of fortress conservation

The story of the Batwa of Kahuzi-Biega is an archetypical example of the ‘fortress conservation’ model.

Advocating for Migrant Communities in Morocco

CCSM is working to promote the social and political rights of minoritized migrants.

Türkiye: stop harassing Diyarbakir arrestees and protect Kurdish cultural expression

These arrests are but the latest in a long history of the abuse of the criminal justice system to persecute legitimate and protected Kurdish cultural expression.

DRC: Respecting indigenous peoples’ rights ruled key in fighting climate crisis

The ruling recognizes Batwa as the best guardians of biodiversity and calls for their return to their land.

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Celebrating Batwa heritage

Help us create the first Batwa-led cultural centre in Kanungu district, Uganda. It will be a space where the indigenous Batwa community can pass on their traditional knowledge and preserve their cultural heritage for youth and future generations.

International Contest for Minority Artists 2025

The 2025 theme invites creative exploration by minority artist human rights defenders on the theme of Belonging, Place and Loss.

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kasietKasiet Mamyrbay, daughter of detained human rights activist Rita Karasartova, speaking during the #Reaction march, a peaceful protest supporting prisoners in the Kempir-Abad case. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 25 November 2022. Credit: Danil Usmanov.