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9 February 2024
Government of Belize must respect Maya land rights
Minority Rights Group urges the Belizean government to respect the human and property rights of the Maya People of southern Belize and…
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27 September 2021
MRG welcomes new report on indigenous peoples and Covid-19 recovery
Human Rights Council – 48th Session Monday 27 September 2021Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of…
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21 April 2020
MRG strongly condemns violent attempt to evict Maya Q’eqchi villagers despite Covid-19 crisis in Guatemala
On 13 April 2020, private security forces suspected of working for Industria Chiquibul, S.A., an agribusiness engaged in the harvesting and…
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9 February 2023
Conflict, Structural Discrimination & Minorities: Towards a roadmap for inter-agency cooperation
This paper was commissioned under the auspices of the Our Common Agenda, it was developed through multiple interventions and consultations…
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11 September 2013
‘Suddenly we have no more power’: Oil drilling on Maya and Garifuna land in Belize
For centuries, Belize’s Toledo district has been home to indigenous Maya people and Garifuna, an Afro-descendant people. They have…
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4 April 2007
From Conflict to Autonomy in Nicaragua: Lessons Learnt
This study aims to characterise the political and social processes that led to autonomy and to assess its results, both positive and mixed,…
Flagship publications
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20 June 2023
Minority and Indigenous Trends 2023 – Focus on water
The past year saw some of the worst cyclones recorded in the Pacific, some of the costliest and worst ever recorded floods in Australia,…
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28 February 2002
Outsider 58
The newsletter of Minority Rights Group International No. 58, February 2002
Events
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28 September 2015 • 4:30 – 6:00 pm CET
‘No nationality, no rights’: Statelessness Affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
In September 2013, a Constitutional Court ruling deprived tens of thousands of Dominican women, men and children of Haitian descent of…
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Video on demand 31 March 2016 • 7:30 – 9:30 pm BST
Premiere screening, Q&A and music performance for documentary ‘Our lives in transit’
Minority Rights Group International, in collaboration with Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas (MUDHA) and the production company
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