West Africa
West Africa
Engaging Media and Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding (EMMAP)
Duration: 1 March 2022 – 28 February 2024 Countries: Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone What is this programme about? This programme…
International solidarity makes Auschwitz a living memorial
‘Over 200,000 children were murdered in Auschwitz. Completely innocent, good, curious about life, loving their closest ones, trusting children. The…
Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back
‘Sometimes I wish the virus would come here and kill me,’ says a young man, perhaps a boy, at the…
MRG welcomes Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata’s first report on COVID-19 and slavery
Human Rights Council – 45th SessionGeneva, Wednesday 16th September 2020 Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary…
An African perspective on migrants and migration in Senegal
Photo: A child pauses for a photo in Saint Louis, Senegal. © Jana Cavojska By Hamimu Masudi, Media Officer at…
Senegal: the impact of the climate crisis on the fisher community of St. Louis
By Carl Söderbergh, Director of Policy and Communications at Minority Rights Group International How to describe an absence? That was…
“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…
Mauritania: Authorities must stop using arbitrary arrests to crackdown on anti-slavery and anti-discrimination activists
On 3 July 2019, Ahmedou Ould Wediaa, a prominent anti-slavery activist, journalist and member of the opposition party (Tawassoul) in…