Skirting around equality: 14 years after Sejdić and Finci vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina

By Hope Otieno, Legal Fellow at Minority Rights Group Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has one of the most complicated systems of governance in the world.   In a bid to end the years of conflict resulting in the deaths of more than 100,000 people, the Dayton Peace...

Side Event: Anti-racism in UN Programming

This hybrid event will serve as an opportunity to share current efforts, good and promising practices, and innovative examples of programming which contribute to addressing racism and racial discrimination and to the protection of minorities at the country level, and...

عام التحدي والقمع في إيران: كيف أثار موت امرأة انتفاضة على مستوى البلاد

Click here to read in English برای خواندن این بیانیه به زبان فارسی اینجا کلیک کنید قبل عام، توفيت مهسا جينا أميني، وهي امرأة إيرانية كردية بلغت من العمر 22 عاماً، أثناء احتجازها من قبل شرطة الأخلاق بعد اعتقالها بتهمة ارتداء الحجاب “غير اللائق” في طهران....

سال مخالفت‌ و سرکوب در ایران: چگونه کشته شدن یک زن باعث قیام سراسری شد

Click here to read in English انقر هنا لقراءة هذا البيان باللغة العربية تمثل انتفاضات “المرأة، الحياة، الحرية” أول احتجاجات وطنية على الإطلاق لدعم حقوق النساء لسنوات، وخاصة في الأشهر التي سبقت وفاة مهسا جينا أميني في حجز الشرطة، كان الشعب الإيراني منهكاً...

Iran’s Year of Defiance and Repression: How One Woman’s Death Sparked a Nationwide Uprising

برای خواندن این بیانیه به زبان فارسی اینجا کلیک کنید انقر هنا لقراءة هذا البيان باللغة العربية A year ago, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, died in the custody of the morality police after being arrested over alleged “improper” hijab in Tehran....

EVENT:​ Water Justice in Australia and The Pacific

In partnership with Minority Rights Group International, Western Sydney University are delighted to host the Australian launch of Focus on Water – Minority and Indigenous Trends 2023 Report  The Report features 32 country-specific case studies and...

MRG Urges Action to Protect Aquatic Ecosystems and Ensure Safe Drinking Water for All

This message was delivered on 14 September 2023 by Carl Söderbergh during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation at the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Special Rapporteur, Minority Rights Group warmly...

Side Event – Corporate Capture of the Agenda: How privatization and financialization are hampering efforts to reach those furthest left behind

When? Tuesday 19 September 2023, 11.00 am ET. Where? Virtual and in-person, Human Rights Watch Offices, New York, USA. When the Sustainable Development Agenda was being negotiated in 2015, many governments as well as the UN emphasized the need to mobilize private...

Side Event – Invisible no Longer: Data Solutions to LNOB Dilemmas

When? Sunday 17 September 2023, 3.15 – 4.45 pm. Where? Conference Room 7, UN Secretariat, New York, USA. In-person event. International sign language and French and Spanish translations will be provided. This side event forms part of discussions held in New York...

Roy v. Australia: MRG welcomes win for Wunna Nyiyaparli land rights 

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) applauds the Human Rights Committee’s (the Committee) decision of 10 July 2023, condemning Australia for violating the human rights of the Wunna Nyiyaparli Indigenous People by nullifying their claim to their ancestral land....

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