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Countries in the region
Click on a country to read about the minorities and indigenous peoples it hosts in our World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Netherlands Antilles and Aruba
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- St Lucia
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- US Virgin Islands
Our programmes in the region
We currently have no active programmes in the region.
Our archive
All news and updates
- MRG strongly condemns violent attempt to evict Maya Q’eqchi villagers despite COVID-19 crisis in Guatemala (21 April 2020)
- HRC38 – SR on racism: MRG’s statement on racial and ethnic discrimination as a root cause of statelessness (2 July 2018)
- Resistencia, género, raza y no-democracia en Honduras (7 December 2017)
- Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change (8 November 2017)
- Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change (8 November 2017)
- Belize: Advocating Maya people’s rights to land (22 November 2016)
- UPDATE 27 JUNE 2016 – Case against Santa Cruz 13 Discontinued…Prosecution of Maya in Belize ‘politically motivated’ and evidence of inequality before the law, says MRG (22 June 2016)
- MRG launches campaign to fight racism in the Dominican Republic (26 April 2016)
- MRG statement to UN Human Rights Council on situation of Dominican children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic (11 March 2016)
- ‘Vidas en tránsito’ – nuevo documental que narra la dura realidad que afrontan los “fantasmas legales” en República Dominicana (10 March 2016)
- ‘Our Lives in Transit’ – new documentary sheds light on harsh realities faced by ‘legal ghosts’ in Dominican Republic (10 March 2016)
- Our Lives in Transit – documentary sheds light on harsh realities faced by ‘legal ghosts’ in Dominican Republic (9 March 2016)
- Premiere screening, Q&A and music performance for documentary “Our lives in transit” (3 March 2016)
- Minority Voices Podcast – January 2016 (4 January 2016)
- Working together to eradicate statelessness in the Dominican Republic (26 November 2015)
- “No nationality, no rights”: Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent (25 September 2015)
- Yean and Bosico: A decade long pursuit for equality, nationality and an end to discrimination (8 September 2015)
- A word on migrants, refugees and minority rights (4 September 2015)
- Stateless Future for Dominicans of Haitian descent? (8 July 2015)
- Say my Name – Using street theatre to address racism and discrimination (3 July 2015)
- New Act is ‘woeful solution’, Dominican government continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their right to nationality, says MRG (7 August 2014)
- US energy company must suspend oil exploration until government of Belize obtains free, prior and informed consent of Toledo’s Maya and Garifuna peoples, says new report (10 September 2013)
- Belize court affirms Maya land rights but strikes out protective orders (26 July 2013)
- MRG expresses condolences over the death of human rights activist Sonia Pierre (13 December 2011)
- Keep on walking (4 October 2011)
- Independent Expert on Minority Issues report welcome, says MRG (16 March 2009)
- This land is ours. Well, one day it will be! (4 March 2009)
- One of Nicaragua’s greatest achievements is in danger of being reversed (2 August 2007)
- Sandinista’s mixed legacy for Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast (26 July 2007)
- Jean and Bosico Children v. The Dominican Republic (8 September 2005)
- La ONU ha sido alertada acerca de la política de ‘des-haitización’ de la República Dominicana (23 August 2005)
- UN alerted to Dominican ‘de-Haitianization’ policy (23 August 2005)
- Dominican Republic warned of ethnic cleansing charge (18 May 2005)
- The Truth Commission in Guatemala (1 May 1999)
All publications
- Dominican Republic: Lack of documentation leaves Dominicans of Haitian descent on the margins (2022)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Guatemala: A lifeline for survivors of gender-based violence during lockdown (2021)
- Dominican Republic: Using film to tell the story of Dominicans of Haitian descent (2020)
- Central America: For migrants crossing national borders or connecting across ‘the wall’, communication technologies play a vital role (2020)
- Panama: The devastating cost of ‘green’ development for the indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé community (2019)
- Guatemala: Violence and discrimination drive indigenous migration elsewhere (2018)
- Dominican Republic: Stripped of citizenship, the deportations of ethnic Haitians continue (2018)
- Indigenous Peoples and Poverty: The Cases of Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua (2003)
- Outsider 58 (2002)
- We Have Always Lived Here: The Maya of Guatemala (1991)
- The position of Blacks in Brazilian and Cuban society (1979)
- The East Indians of Guyana and Trinidad (1972)
- The Miskito Indians of Nicaragua (1970)
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Advocacy statements
- HRC38 – SR on racism: MRG’s statement on racial and ethnic discrimination as a root cause of statelessness
- MRG statement to UN Human Rights Council on situation of Dominican children of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic
Documentary films
- Our Lives in Transit – documentary sheds light on harsh realities faced by ‘legal ghosts’ in Dominican Republic
- Say my Name – Using street theatre to address racism and discrimination
Events
- Premiere screening, Q&A and music performance for documentary “Our lives in transit”
- “No nationality, no rights”: Statelessness affecting Dominicans of Haitian descent
Key legal cases
News and blogs
- Resistencia, género, raza y no-democracia en Honduras
- Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change
- Female indigenous activism in Guatemala: inspiration and challenges for women and girls as agents of change
- Minority Voices Podcast – January 2016
- Working together to eradicate statelessness in the Dominican Republic
- Yean and Bosico: A decade long pursuit for equality, nationality and an end to discrimination
- A word on migrants, refugees and minority rights
- Stateless Future for Dominicans of Haitian descent?
- Keep on walking
- This land is ours. Well, one day it will be!
News from our projects
Press releases
- MRG strongly condemns violent attempt to evict Maya Q’eqchi villagers despite COVID-19 crisis in Guatemala
- UPDATE 27 JUNE 2016 – Case against Santa Cruz 13 Discontinued…Prosecution of Maya in Belize ‘politically motivated’ and evidence of inequality before the law, says MRG
- ‘Vidas en tránsito’ – nuevo documental que narra la dura realidad que afrontan los “fantasmas legales” en República Dominicana
- ‘Our Lives in Transit’ – new documentary sheds light on harsh realities faced by ‘legal ghosts’ in Dominican Republic
- New Act is ‘woeful solution’, Dominican government continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent of their right to nationality, says MRG
- US energy company must suspend oil exploration until government of Belize obtains free, prior and informed consent of Toledo’s Maya and Garifuna peoples, says new report
- Belize court affirms Maya land rights but strikes out protective orders
- MRG expresses condolences over the death of human rights activist Sonia Pierre
- Independent Expert on Minority Issues report welcome, says MRG
- One of Nicaragua’s greatest achievements is in danger of being reversed
What we do
- Dominican Republic: Street Theatre Programme
- Street Theatre
- Strengthening the capacity of minorities and indigenous peoples to advocate for implementation of international standards
- Conflict Prevention Programme
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