Politicking in the Midst of Pandemic Could be Recipe for Election Disaster
By Joshua Castellino, MRG’s Executive Director After a devastating year in Ethiopia that witnessed wide-scale killings and war in the…
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In the Name of George
By Joshua Castellino, Executive Director at Minority Rights Group International. (Photo: A protester in Washington DC holds a sign featuring George…
A letter from Egypt: ‘Nothing is more uncertain than tomorrow’
Sarah El Ashmawy, MRG’s Egypt Programme Coordinator, writes a letter from Cairo to her colleagues, expressing her thoughts on Egypt’s recent…
Turkey taken to European Human Rights Court for violating right to free election
Assisted by Minority Rights Group International lawyers representing two Kurdish politicians will challenge the Turkish government at the European Court…
Violence in Darfur may further destabilize the rest of Sudan
Without urgent action by the international community and the Sudanese government the current situation in Darfur threatens to further destabilize…
Darfur crisis tests global pledge to prevent genocide
A breakdown of the current fragile ceasefire in the Darfur region of Sudan could trigger a further, rapid escalation in…
Iraq: US/UK plans for post-war transition could jeopardize democracy
Current US / UK plans for a post-war transition to democracy in Iraq could prove unworkable and fuel ethnic and…
Egypt: Retrial for democracy and human rights defender
Today, Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist and human rights defender has been granted a retrial by Egypt’s highest appeal…
