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North America | 22 Dec 2022

Our work in North America

Americas United States of America | 15 Jun 2022

United States: For Black Americans, unionization continues to offer the hope of better working conditions

Indigenous peoples Mexico | 15 Jun 2022

Mexico: Shifting the axis – the need to ensure Indigenous concerns as the new standard of leadership in climate talks

Americas Canada Caribbean Canadians Mexico Minority and Indigenous Trends | 15 Jun 2022

Canada: The exploitation of Mexican and Caribbean migrant workers in Ontario’s agricultural sector

Americas Canada Events Indigenous peoples Native Americans | 19 Jan 2022

Eden Fine Day: her music, language and Canada’s ‘residential schools’

Eden Fine Day (she/her) is an Indigenous songwriter, singer and author. An intergenerational survivor of ‘residential schools’, Eden was born…

Americas Canada Covid-19 Health Minority and Indigenous Trends Publications | 26 Jun 2021

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Essential, but unprotected – Toronto’s racialized labour force

Americas Black Americans Covid-19 Health Minority and Indigenous Trends Publications United States of America | 26 Jun 2021

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – United States: For decades, Black Americans have been living through a public health crisis

Americas Canada Covid-19 Health Indigenous peoples Minority and Indigenous Trends Publications | 26 Jun 2021

Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Canada: Indigenous health governance during COVID-19

Advocacy Black Lives Matter UN Human Rights Council United States of America | 10 May 2021

MRG joins civil society call for the UN to investigate systemic racism in the police in the US, and to monitor this phenomenon globally

Re: The UN Human Rights Council’s role to ensure effective accountability and follow-up to HRC Resolution 43/1 Dear High Commissioner,…

Americas Black Lives Matter Racism United States of America | 21 Apr 2021

A welcome judgment but not yet justice

By Carl Söderbergh The guilty verdict brought by a jury in the United States against ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for…

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