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Minority Rights Group deplores actions against local authorities providing services in languages other than Turkish
Minority Rights Group deplores recent decisions by the Turkish Council of state which rule against local authorities which decide to…
First test on human rights for Gordon Brown – FCO appeals to Lords over Chagossians
Minority Rights Group International and the UK Chagos Support Association deplore the Foreign and Commonwealth Office decision to appeal to…
Minority Rights and the Prevention of Violent Conflict
Chechnya, Darfur, Kashmir, Kosovo, Sri Lanka – just some of the world's bitterest conflicts. All fuelled and fought over ethnic,…
Minority Rights Group International welcomes the election of pro-Kurdish MPs in Turkey, warns much remains to be achieved
For the first time in 16 years, pro Kurdish candidates have won seats in the Turkish parliament. In the results…
A Jewish state or a democratic state?
The end of my week is taken up with the future of Israel. Israel is one of the handful of…
Sikhs appeal French government’s ban on right to wear turbans at Europe’s highest human rights court
On Monday June 11th, 2007, United Sikhs lawyers will lodge a challenge to the French government's restrictions on the right…
A tale of two walls
Muhammad travelled there in one night. Richard the Lion Heart refused to see it. For centuries Jews have dreamed of…
