By Meera Thoompail, Intern at Minority Rights Group International. Photo: Stateless Rohingya in an internally displaced persons camp, Sittwe, Rakhine (Source:…
In Myanmar’s Rakhine State the Rohingya minority, predominantly Muslim, has been subject to the most horrifying human rights violations. The…
Seventy Years of the Genocide Convention Seventy years ago this week, on 9 December 1948, the United Nations adopted…
UN Human Rights Council 38thsession Interactive Dialogue on the situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar (item 2) Mister President,…
UN Human Rights Council 38th session Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism (item 9) Thank you Mister…
Commenting on the 16 January 2018 announcement that the Myanmar and Bangladesh governments have signed an agreement to begin the…
In Buddhist Myanmar, Muslim Rohingya are denied citizenship. They face extreme violence, hate speech and persecution. Many have been forced…
UN Human Rights Council 36th session Interactive Dialogue on Fact-finding Mission on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (item 4)…
After tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled across the border into Bangladesh during the first days of September 2017,…
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) Deputy Director, Claire Thomas, writes this opinion piece for the Thomson Reuters News Foundation.
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Despite this worrying global situation, we reaffirm our commitment to safeguarding the rights of minority and indigenous communities and implementing indivisible human rights for all.
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A sub-grant programme to support for CSOs in MENA, South Asia and Southeast Asia working to address the situation minorities face in the context of COVID-19.
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