Recognizing Minorities in Africa’ published in French
The MRG advocacy briefing ‘Recognizing Minorities in Africa’ is now available in French.
Click here to read it in French, and here to access the English version.
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Advocacy statements
- India: The UN Human Rights Council must act for minority and indigenous rights
- UPR of Uganda: MRG urges the government to implement affirmative action for indigenous communities
- MRG and partners gravely concerned by the situation facing religious and ethnic minorities in India
- Recommendations to African states on indigenous and minority issues
- MRG appelle la RDC à assurer la protection des droits des peuples Batwa
- MRG and partners call on Somalia to tackle exclusion of minorities
- MRG & partners call on Somalia to pay particular attention to minority clan communities
- Obstacles to implementing the rights of minorities and early effective conflict prevention
- Status of peace and justice for indigenous peoples of East Africa: our recommendations
- Indigenous peoples must be at the forefront when it comes to redressing violations of their rights
Documentary films
Events
- Land Body Ecologies: Understanding the Traumas of Fortress Conservation
- Access to education and health for indigenous peoples in Ethiopia
- EVENT – Inclusive, economic, social, cultural health and education policies for indigenous and minority peoples in Africa
- EVENT: The protection of human rights of ethnic minorities and Conflict Prevention using Early Warning Mechanism
- EVENT: Leave no one behind: An intentional call for a new social contract for indigenous peoples
- EVENT: Understanding access to education and health services for Batwa and persons with disabilities in Uganda
- Event: Access to Education and Health among Minority and Indigenous Communities in Kenya
News and blogs
- Climate-linked lake rise frustrates indigenous Endorois health volunteers
- Kenyan government should respect pro-indigenous rights rulings
- Tribute: Elizabeth Ibrahim and Zephyrin Kalimba ran the good race
- Boot camp re-energises Kenya’s indigenous activists
- Indigenous paralegals and the fight for climate justice
- Politicking in the Midst of Pandemic Could be Recipe for Election Disaster
- How the Ugandan Constitution perpetuates discrimination against ethnic minorities
- Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back
- UPDATE: One step forward for the Ogiek as Kenyan court issues conservatory orders, stopping government’s titling process in Eastern Mau
- Building back better: toward a minority, indigenous and disability-inclusive post-Covid-19 world
News from our projects
- Early warning mechanisms key to calming ethnic tensions
- Why journalists seeking out minority and indigenous voices is ever so important
- Accurate data key to amplifying indigenous voices
- ‘Network for Peace’ project improves lives of minority communities
- Why budgeting processes are crucial for minorities and indigenous peoples in Kenya
- Strengthening the voice of marginalized minorities in East and Central Africa
Opinion
Press releases
- Deutsche und US-finanzierte Parkwächter:innen ermorden und vergewaltigen Mitglieder einer indigenen Gemeinschaft im Nationalpark der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, wie eine Untersuchung zeigt
- German and US funded park guards murder and rape indigenous community members living in DRC national park, investigation reveals
- Un rapport d’enquête révèle que des gardes du parc national de PNKB, financés par l’Allemagne et les États-Unis, ont violé et assassiné des membres de la communauté autochtone batwa
- Minority and indigenous peoples’ rights defenders urge African states to address marginalisation grievances
- Heath and education: Indigenous communities want action from the Government of Uganda ahead of upcoming UN review
- Kenya’s minority and indigenous communities missing out on education and healthcare access
- Les autorités françaises arrêtent Roger Lumbala, ancien chef de milice, pour crimes contre l’humanité en RDC
- French authorities arrest Roger Lumbala, former militia leader, for crimes against humanity in the DRC
- Kenyan communities report illegal evictions during COVID-19 – CLAN press release
- Kenya Flouts African Court Judgment, Continues to Evict Ogiek in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic
Statements
- Atteintes aux droits de l’homme dans le PNKB : les conclusions soi-disant « indépendantes » de l’enquête de l’ICCN ne peuvent être prises au pied de la lettre
- Human Rights Abuses in PNKB: So-called ‘independent’ findings of ICCN Investigation cannot be taken at face value
- Menace imminente pour la forêt du bassin du Congo par la levée du moratoire de la RDC sur les nouvelles concessions forestières
- Imminent threat to the Congo Basin rainforest from the lifting of the DRC moratorium on new logging concessions
- MRG welcomes Uganda court verdict on Batwa compensation
- MRG concerned about anti-slavery linked arrests in Mauritania
- MRG préoccupé par les récentes arrestations liées à la lutte contre l’esclavage en Mauritanie
- Aires protégées en République Démocratique du Congo : un système défaillant
- Statement: Protected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a broken system
- Tell President Kenyatta of Kenya to stop illegal handouts of Ogiek lands
Programmes
- Furthest Behind First (FBF)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE)
- Rwanda: Strengthening the capacity of the civil society and the media to challenge discrimination against Historically Marginalised Peoples (HMPs)
- Freedom, rights and justice: Combatting descent-based slavery in Mauritania
- Land Body Ecologies – The impacts of environmental change on mental health (LBE)
- Enhancing quality and universal access to indigenous peoples’ reproductive healthcare (EQUIP)
- Networks for Peace: Preventing and resolving conflicts through early warning mechanisms in Africa
- Sharing Good Practices in Protection of Workers and Victims of Modern Slavery during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Supporting Human Rights Defenders in the area of land-related rights, indigenous peoples
- Deepening engagement: Achieving rights for Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Africa
Publications
- Minority exclusion in Somalia: shortcomings of aid agency feedback mechanisms
- Fortress Conservation and International Accountability for Human Rights Violations against Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park
- To Purge the Forest by Force: Organized violence against Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Kenya
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Kenya
- Access to education and health among minorities and indigenous peoples in Ethiopia
- Assessment of Batwa and persons with disabilities’ access to education and health services in Uganda
- Minority inclusion learning review of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland – Programmes in the Horn of Africa
