Tackling Covid-19 together
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has been having a horrific impact on everyone, the world’s most marginalised communities have been hit particularly hard. 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. Since the onset of this pandemic, we have been paying close attention to the inequalities in access to protective equipment and healthcare services. Here is a summary of what we have produced along with our partners.
Our publications related to the Covid-19 pandemic
Our DIVE project aims at tracking and understanding online sharing across diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic communities about Covid-19 vaccine confidence, uptake and access in Algeria, Kenya, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Covid-19 news, blogs, statements and press releases
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Advocacy statements
- UN Committee Decries Racial Discrimination in Global Covid-19 Vaccine Access
- MRG welcomes new report on indigenous peoples and Covid-19 recovery
- UPR of Uganda: Joint contributions from MRG and its partners
- HRC47 – MRG welcomes Special Rapporteur’s focus on racial justice in health
- MRG shares key lessons on state responses to the pandemic
- Indigenous peoples must be at the forefront when it comes to redressing violations of their rights
- Cultural Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic
- HRC – MRG and Chirikli on the situation of Roma in Ukraine in light of the Covid-19 pandemic
- HRC45 – MRG and Chiricli urge Ukraine to end impunity for intimidation and violence against Roma
- MRG addresses the Council on Covid-19 and human rights
Documentary films
- HIV in the time of the pandemic – a bitter reality
- V.I.H. au temps de la pandémie, une réalité amère
- Up the Hills; Down the Valley – a film about indigenous women living with HIV in Vietnam
Events
- Access to education and health for indigenous peoples in Ethiopia
- La situation des minorités et autres groupes minorisés en Tunisie, entre discrimination et reconnaissance
- Minorities and minoritized groups in Tunisia, between discrimination and recognition of diversity
- EVENT – Inclusive, economic, social, cultural health and education policies for indigenous and minority peoples in Africa
- EVENT: Indigenous women in the pandemic: Lessons of repression and resistance
- EVENT: Understanding access to education and health services for Batwa and persons with disabilities in Uganda
- EVENT: Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Focus on Covid-19
- Event: Access to Education and Health among Minority and Indigenous Communities in Kenya
- Maternal Mortality & Maternal Health Among Indigenous Women and Adolescent Girls
- Premier – new MRG documentary screening in Ha Noi
News and blogs
- Reporting back from the UN Human Rights Council
- Building back better: toward a minority, indigenous and disability-inclusive post-Covid-19 world
- Ultra Poverty, Multiple Discrimination: The experience of Historically Marginalised People with disabilities in Rwanda during Covid-19
- Dalits with disabilities hit hardest by lockdown in Nepal (Part 2)
- Dalits with disabilities hit hardest by lockdown in Nepal (Part 1)
- The contrasting experiences of Indigenous groups during COVID-19
- COVID-19 pandemic threatens us all, but can we unite to fight it instead of fighting each other?
- Tell it with song: Music to raise awareness on COVID-19
- Minority Movies: Six Films to watch in Lockdown
- Kashmir: A tale of two lockdowns
News from our projects
- Advocating for employment equality for religious minorities in Balochistan
- South Asia Collective COVID-19 Support Grants
Opinion
Press releases
- Heath and education: Indigenous communities want action from the Government of Uganda ahead of upcoming UN review
- Ten urgent lessons for a fairer post-pandemic future – new report
- MRG and partners announced as winners of prestigious Wellcome Trust Hub award
- Kenya’s minority and indigenous communities missing out on education and healthcare access
- Six months since being declared a pandemic, evidence mounts of how Covid-19 hits minorities and indigenous peoples hardest – New briefing
- بعد ستة أشهر من إعلانه وباء، تظهر الأدلة المتزايدة أن فايروس الكورونا يؤثر على الأقليات والشعوب الأصلية بصورة كبيرة – تقرير جديدة
- Nouveau briefing : Après six mois de pandémie, il devient de plus en plus clair que les minorités et peuples autochtones sont les premiers affectés par la Covid-19
- Kenyan communities report illegal evictions during COVID-19 – CLAN press release
- Peoples Under Threat 2020: COVID-19 worsens conflicts and threatens minorities
- COVID-19 strikes South Asia’s minorities at a time when their rights are already threatened across the region, as flagship annual report makes clear
Statements
- Joint Statement: In Solidarity with the Stateless
- Call to Action: Addressing discrimination and inequality in the global response to COVID-19
- Statement: MRG and COVID-19
What we do
- Furthest Behind First (FBF)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE)
- Land Body Ecologies – The impacts of environmental change on mental health (LBE)
- Enhancing quality and universal access to indigenous peoples’ reproductive healthcare (EQUIP)
- Sharing Good Practices in Protection of Workers and Victims of Modern Slavery during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Publications
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Kenya
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Sri Lanka
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) in Pakistan
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Kenya
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Pakistan
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Sri Lanka
