“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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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…
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DRC: The admissibility decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on a case involving the eviction of indigenous people from their ancestral lands represents a beacon of hope
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and Environment Natural Resources and Development (ERND) welcome the adoption by the African Commission on…
A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Since the Adoption of ILO Convention No. 169
On the eve of the Seventy-Sixth Session of the International Labour Conference, during which the International Labour Organisation (‘ILO’) adopted…
Climate change further reinforces inequalities and disproportionately affects minorities and indigenous peoples, according to MRG’s annual Trends Report
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) launches today the 2019 edition of its annual ‘Minority and Indigenous Trends’. This year’s report…
Minority rights deteriorate across South Asia
Pakistan remains in the top ten in our Peoples Under Threat ranking: situated 9th in the world, it sits sandwiched…
Hungarian Development Journalism Award 2019
András Földes, a journalist at Index.hu is awarded this year’s Development Journalism Award 2019, an award founded by Minority Rights…
Two years on, Kenya has yet to implement judgment in Ogiek case – MRG Statement
MRG regrets that two years on, the government of Kenya has yet to implement the African Court on Human and…
Responding to Canada’s Genocide Against Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A Settler Roadmap
Photo: An October 4, 2017, vigil for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, highlighted…
Peoples Under Threat 2019: The role of social media in exacerbating violence
The use of social media by repressive states and extremist groups is adding directly to the threats faced by some…
