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Events
- From disparity to dignity: High Level Political Forum side-event
- La conservation coercitive est un système défaillant : Événement parallèle dans le cadre de l’UNPFII
- Coercive conservation is broken: Side event to the UNPFII
- From hate to violence: Preventing & countering hate speech against minorities in South Asia
- No equality without economic opportunity – overcoming barriers to minority youth participation in economic life
- 25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities: Looking Ahead – Opportunities and Challenges
- Excluded: Stateless minorities in times of crisis
- Side Event at UN Human Rights Council on Iraq’s Displacement Crisis
- “No nationality, no rights”: Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
News and blogs
- Side-event at the UN Human Rights Council sheds light on hate speech in South Asia
- Reporting back from the UN Human Rights Council
- UPDATE: One step forward for the Ogiek as Kenyan court issues conservatory orders, stopping government’s titling process in Eastern Mau
- Discussing Education and Minority Languages at the UN Forum on Minority Issues in Geneva
- Seventy Years of the Genocide Convention
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 70
- Working together to eradicate statelessness in the Dominican Republic
- Part 2: Indigenous languages are important but are they useful?
- A journey of firsts for Endorois women
- We are enemies of ourselves
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- States break silence to condemn Egypt’s abuses at UN rights body
- 31 دولة تكسر حاجز الصمت وتدين انتهاكات مصر لحقوق الإنسان أمام الأمم المتحدة
- MRG Statement at the 11th Session of the Forum on Minority Issues
- MRG applauds government on recognition of Wayeyi tribe in Botswana
- MRG calls on Uganda government to investigate cause of escalating violence in Rwenzori region
- UN Expert calls on states to end caste discrimination
- Minority Rights Group International (MRG) urges the government of Turkey to amend the draft law on the future Human Rights and Equality Body
- ‘Life at the Margins’ – new story pack on multiple forms of discrimination faced by minorities and indigenous peoples
- MRG deeply disappointed by Arusha Court land rights judgment against Loliondo Maasai
- Lack of political and judicial will undermining Mauritania’s anti-slavery law, MRG study
Statements
- Joint statement: Civil society supports historic Genocide Amendment to UK Trade Bill
- Open Letter to UN Special-Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Wairimu Nderitu
- MRG urges the UK Home Office to reverse the decision to deport Osime Brown, a Black Autistic man with learning disabilities
- Rethinking how effective political participation can ensure the best talent can address our deepest crises
Advocacy Statements
- HRC47 – MRG calls on UN Genocide Prevention Office to increase efforts to combat hate speech against minorities
- 2021 CERD election today – Need for greater geographic diversity and competition in future
- HRC47 – MRG welcomes Special Rapporteur’s focus on racial justice in health
- Obstacles to implementing the rights of minorities and early effective conflict prevention
- MRG shares key lessons on state responses to the pandemic
- Egypt: President should act to unshackle freedoms
- MRG joins civil society call for the UN to investigate systemic racism in the police in the US, and to monitor this phenomenon globally
- 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
- Anielle Franco addresses the HRC about police violence against Black and LGBT+ Brazilians
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Publications
- International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Statelessness and human rights treaties – quick reference guide
- Minority Rights Advocacy in the EU: A guide to NGOs in Eastern Partnership Countries
- Moving towards a Right to Land: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Treatment of Land Rights as Human Rights
- Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation: The Continued Failure of the Justice System to Prevent, Protect and Punish
Past Programmes and Evaluations
- Evaluation of INGO support: Human rights advocacy activities of supported international NGOs
- Central and East Africa: Strengthening the Voice of Marginalised Minorities
- Impact of Non-Governmental Organization Activities at World Conference against Racism
- Iraq and Somalia: Securing protection and promoting fundamental freedoms of vulnerable minorities
- Middle East and North Africa: Protecting minorities and freedom of religion
- Global Advocacy Programme
