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Events
- 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
- 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
- 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
- UN Convention to stem coca leaf use remains deeply rooted
- Abandoned identities
- A tiny, mountainous, beautiful kingdom
- My work is done…
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Press releases
- 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
- The Hungarian, Polish and Cypriot EU Presidencies put global poverty reduction into the spotlight in new EU member states, says MRG
- MRG welcomes report to the Human Rights Council by the UN expert on minorities
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
- MRG joins massive call for action on Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council
- MRG calls for the immediate release of Kurdish activists and others arbitrarily detained in Iran
- UN Committee to review rights of the child in Tunisia – MRG’s submission with PAD network
- UPR of Mauritania – MRG’s contributions
- HRC – MRG and Chirikli on the situation of Roma in Ukraine in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
- لجنة الأمم المتّحدة ستدرس وضعيّة حقوق الطفل في تونس ـ المساهمة من مجموعة حقوق الأقليات الدولية وشبكة نقاط مناهضة التمييز
- Un Comité de l’ONU va examiner les droits de l’enfant en Tunisie – Contribution de MRG et du réseau Points Anti-Discrimination (PAD)
- MRG calls for the unconditional release of human rights defenders recently arrested in Egypt
- HRC45 – MRG and Chiricli urge Ukraine to end impunity for intimidation and violence against Roma
- HRC45 – MRG calls for attention on how technology replicates and amplify structural racism in law enforcement
What we do
- Strengthening Human Rights Advocacy for Freedom of Religion and Belief in the Middle East and North Africa
- Strategic Litigation Programme
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