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Advocacy statements
- Submission to the CRPD committee on the rights of persons with disability in Kenya
- UPR of Uganda: MRG urges the government to implement affirmative action for indigenous communities
- 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
- HRC45 – MRG and OPDP (Kenya) engage in a UN panel discussion on the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights defenders
Documentary films
- We are still saying that we should not be left out: Manase Ntutu on fighting for the rights of indigenous persons with disabilities
- Say my Name – Using street theatre to address racism and discrimination
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
Key legal cases
- African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights v Kenya (the ‘Ogiek case’)
- Kenya: Protecting the Endorois’ right to land
- Tanzania: Protecting Maasai right to land
News and blogs
- Six years on: Celebration mixed with concern for the Ogiek of Mau
- Beyond just conservation: a history of Maasai dispossession
- A model for peace in northern Kenya
- Climate-linked lake rise frustrates indigenous Endorois health volunteers
- Indigenous Ogiek health volunteers want clean water access
- One step closer: indigenous peoples’ rights in the DRC
- Empowering Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer to advocate for better healthcare and education
- 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
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
- Preventing evictions from the Mau Forest of Kenya
- Strengthening the voice of marginalized minorities in East and Central Africa
Opinion
Press releases
- Ogiek win another landmark victory in African Court
- Indigenous Ogiek in Kenya eagerly anticipate reparations judgement
- 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
Statements
- Oral Statement by MRG on Human Rights Situation of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Africa at 75th Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- MRG welcomes outcomes of the recent African Commission mission to Tanzania
- 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
Programmes
- Realizing Rights for All: tackling the structural drivers of economic, social and cultural rights deprivations facing marginalized groups
- 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
- Empowering indigenous land rights defenders to prevent climate change
Publications
- Kenya: Eviction, flooding and disability in Baringo County
- Reparations at last: Land justice for Kenya’s Ogiek
- Minority exclusion in Somalia: shortcomings of aid agency feedback mechanisms
- Implement Endorois Decision 276/03: Report on the impact of non-implementation of the African Commission’s Endorois decision
- 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