Voices that must be heard: minorities and indigenous people combating climate change
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Events
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News and blogs
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- International solidarity makes Auschwitz a living memorial
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- Online hate speech in Myanmar: an evolving threat
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News from our projects
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- Virtual Advice Centers: A tool to safeguard Roma rights in Macedonia
- Macedonia: Institutional discrimination and police brutality against Roma
- Iraq’s Sabean Mandeans in the spotlight
- Preventing evictions from the Mau Forest of Kenya
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Video stories on everyday challenges faced by Roma communities
- MRG launches campaign to fight racism in the Dominican Republic
Opinion
Press releases
- Les autorités françaises arrêtent Roger Lumbala, ancien chef de milice, pour crimes contre l’humanité en RDC
- French authorities arrest Roger Lumbala, former militia leader, for crimes against humanity in the DRC
- MRG briefing highlights WWF’s complicity in conservation-related Human Rights abuses
- Historic court decision removing a key legacy of slavery in Tunisia warmly welcomed by MRG
- 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
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- Kenya Flouts African Court Judgment, Continues to Evict Ogiek in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic
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Statements
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- Excuser les torts de la conservation ? Un rapport accuse le WWF de violations des droits humains mais n’exige pas de comptes
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- Tell President Kenyatta of Kenya to stop illegal handouts of Ogiek lands
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Advocacy statements
- Indigenous peoples must be at the forefront when it comes to redressing violations of their rights
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- MRG and partners welcome new UN Rapporteur on persons with disabilities’ focus on intersectionality
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- UPR of Mauritania – MRG’s contributions
- HRC – MRG and Chirikli on the situation of Roma in Ukraine in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
- HRC45 – MRG welcomes the new Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples and highlights the growing problem of “fortress conservation” projects violating indigenous peoples’ rights
- HRC45 – MRG and OPDP (Kenya) engage in a UN panel discussion on the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights defenders
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Law and legal cases
- Belize: Advocating Maya people’s rights to land
- Botswana: Tribal recognition and equality for the Wayeyi
- Burundi: Protecting Batwa land rights
- Chagos Islands: The Right of Return for the Chagossians
- Chile: Mapuche and the right to non-discrimination and equality
- Democratic Republic of Congo: Protecting Batwa land rights
- African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights v Kenya (the ‘Ogiek case’)
- Kenya: Protecting the Endorois’ right to land
- Russia: Roma housing rights
- Tanzania: Protecting Maasai right to land
Programmes
- Strengthening Capacity of Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities and Ensure an Effective Advocacy for them in Turkey
- Equality for Roma through Enhanced Legal Access (ERELA): Increasing Roma access to justice in Bulgaria and Croatia
- Roma Equality through Increased Legal Access (REILA): Increasing the access to justice of the Roma in Hungary and Serbia
- Supporting Human Rights Defenders in the area of land-related rights, indigenous peoples
- Rwanda: Strengthening the capacity of the civil society and the media to challenge discrimination against Historically Marginalised People
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- From Disparity to Dignity: Realizing Indigenous & Minority Rights in Development
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- Protecting the rights of religious minorities
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Publications
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