MRG: The rhetoric of ‘green transitions’ cannot be used to push ever more deeply into indigenous territories
This statement to the UN Human Rights Council was delivered by Shikha Dilawri, South Asia Programme Coordinator at Minority Rights…
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Open letter from civil society to world leaders: Put human rights at the centre of environmental policy
This open letter was signed by 166 civil society organizations and individuals calling upon world leaders to put human rights…
“It’s Ogoniland today, but it could be your home tomorrow”
Lazarus Tamana, the European Coordinator for the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People was recently interviewed by Rowen…
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Sustainable Development Goals welcome, but pledge that ‘no one will be left behind’ must now be honoured by all governments, MRG
Minority Rights Group (MRG) welcomes the formal adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but calls on all governments to…
Ethiopia’s ‘Master Plan’ – good for development, damaging for minorities
Writing from our Africa Office in Kampala, MRG intern Biraanu Gammachu sheds light on the Ethiopian government’s unpopular national development project. …
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On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Belize communities demand their rights
Chelsea Purvis, a lawyer assisting MRG’s Legal Cases Team, reports on land rights advocacy by Maya and Garifuna communities. Today…
Lessons learned in community spirit – a Moldovan visits Kenya
Victoria Apostol, of Promo-LEX Association from the Republic of Moldova, recently visited Kenya on a study exchange organized through MRG’s…
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State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012
Natural resource development projects such as logging and dams, oil and mineral extraction and large-scale agriculture have been successful in…
Corporate irresponsibility in the Niger Delta
Natasha Horsfield, MRG’s Research/Publications Intern, sees the case brought against oil giant Shell by Nigeria’s Ogoni people as a reflection…
