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For a Tunisia without discriminations - Duration: February 2023 - August 2026 Country: Tunisia Communities: Various, including Baha’i, Christians and Jews, black Tunisians, sub-Saharan migrants, LGBTQI+, persons with disabilities and Amazigh What is… …
Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS) - Duration: 1 May 2023 – 30 April 2027 Countries: Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and Tunisia Communities: Various APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! Click here to apply to Urgent… …
Realizing Rights for All: tackling the structural drivers of economic, social and cultural rights deprivations facing marginalized groups - Duration: 1 April 2022 – 31 December 2024 Country: Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru), North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia), Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya,… …
Fighting against all forms of discrimination in Tunisia (All 4 All) - Duration: August 2022 – July 2025 Country: Tunisia Communities: Various (religious minorities, including Baha’i, Christians and Jews, black Tunisians, sub-Saharan migrants, LGBTQI+, persons with disabilities and Amazigh) What is… …Our archive
All news and updates
- Démanteler l’héritage de l’esclavage en Tunisie grâce au travail juridique (26 September 2023)
- Dismantling the legacy of slavery in Tunisia through legal work (26 September 2023)
- CANCELLED – Moroccan dance & art – A Sofa Talk with Zineb Boujema (30 August 2023)
- Tunisie : des migrant.es subsaharien.nes expulsé.es de force dans un contexte de montée des violences anti-migrant.es et anti-noir.es (7 July 2023)
- Tunisia: Sub-Saharan migrants forcibly deported amid renewal of anti-migrant, anti-Black sentiment (7 July 2023)
- Oral Statement by MRG on Human Rights Situation of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Africa at 75th Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (9 May 2023)
- MRG soutient l’adoption des recommandations pour l’élimination de la discrimination en Tunisie (20 April 2023)
- Escalation of racism in Tunisia must be stopped (8 March 2023)
- L’escalade du racisme en Tunisie doit être stoppée (8 March 2023)
يجب وضع حد لتفشي ظاهرة العنصرية في تونس
(8 March 2023)- Revitalizing Tamazight: The role of language education policies in Morocco (21 February 2023)
- Revitaliser le Tamazight : le rôle des politiques linguistiques dans l’éducation au Maroc (21 February 2023)
- Review of the 7th Periodic Report of Tunisia (2 February 2023)
- Fight against racial discrimination in Tunisia, work in progress: Regional consultation day in Medenine (23 January 2023)
- Les femmes sub-sahariennes en Tunisie, à l’intersection des discriminations (18 December 2022)
- Sub-Saharan women in Tunisia, at the intersection of discriminations (18 December 2022)
- Said et Yarg : Cinq ans plus tard, qu’est-ce qui a changé ? (15 December 2022)
- Said and Yarg: Five years later, what has changed? (15 December 2022)
- MRG’s recommendations to the UN Forum on Minority Issues (2 December 2022)
- Tunisia: achieving equality through legal means and lawyers’ support (3 November 2022)
- EVENT: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in North Africa: Progress and challenges in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (6 October 2022)
- EVENEMENT: Minorités et Peuples Autochtones en Afrique du Nord: progrès et défis en Algérie, Maroc et Tunisie (6 October 2022)
مجتمعات المناطق الحدودية في مصر معزولة عن الرعاية الصحية المناسبة، وفقا لتقرير موجز جديد
(11 August 2022)- Egypt’s border communities cut off from adequate healthcare, new briefing shows (11 August 2022)
- Testimonies of a group of associations fighting against racial discrimination in Tunisia (19 July 2022)
- UPR of Morocco – MRG’s contribution (31 March 2022)
- UPR of Algeria – MRG’s contribution (31 March 2022)
- UPR of Tunisia – Joint contribution from MRG and partners (31 March 2022)
- MRG وشركاؤها قلقون بشأن وضع اللاجئين والمهاجرين وطالبي اللجوء في تونس (21 February 2022)
- MRG et ses partenaires préoccupés par la situation des réfugiés, migrants et demandeurs d’asile en Tunisie (21 February 2022)
- MRG and partners concerned about the situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Tunisia (21 February 2022)
- Traverser l’Afrique : la foi au long de la route – un film sur la religion, la migration et les identités sociales (10 February 2022)
- Crossing Africa: Faith on the Road – a film on religion, migration and social identities (10 February 2022)
حمزة نصري: فصل جديد في ترهيب المدافعين والمدافعات عن حقوق الإنسان
(2 February 2022)- Hamza Nasri: Un nouveau chapitre dans l’intimidation des défenseurs des droits humains (2 February 2022)
- Hamza Nasri: A new chapter in the intimidation of human rights defenders (2 February 2022)
القضاء على مخلّفات العبوديّة: لا “عتيڤ” بعد اليوم
(23 January 2022)- Abolir les séquelles de l’esclavage : « Atig » plus jamais (23 January 2022)
- Abolition of the legacy of slavery: ‘Atig’ no more (23 January 2022)
- La situation des minorités et autres groupes minorisés en Tunisie, entre discrimination et reconnaissance (18 January 2022)
- Minorities and minoritized groups in Tunisia, between discrimination and recognition of diversity (18 January 2022)
- HIV in the time of the pandemic – a bitter reality (1 December 2021)
- V.I.H. au temps de la pandémie, une réalité amère (1 December 2021)
- وضع الأقليات والمجموعات المهمشة في تونس : بين التمييز ضدهم.ن والاعتراف بهم.ن (26 November 2021)
- La situation des minorités et autres groupes minorisés en Tunisie : entre discrimination et reconnaissance (26 November 2021)
- EVENT: The situation of minorities and other ‘minoritized’ groups in Tunisia: between discrimination and recognition (26 November 2021)
- La brutalité policière post 25/07 : l’impunité encore et toujours ? (25 October 2021)
- العنف البوليسي ما بعد 25 جويلية 2021 : مازال الإفلات من العقاب قائما (25 October 2021)
- Tunisia: Journalist and woman human rights defender Arroi Baraket charged (5 October 2021)
- Tunisia: Escalation in charges against Arroi Baraket are unwarranted and must be dismissed (30 September 2021)
- Tunisie : L’escalade des charges contre Arroi Baraket est injustifiée et doit être rejetée (30 September 2021)
- تونس: يجب اسقاط التهم الموجهة إلى أروى بركات بعد التصعيد غير المبرر (30 September 2021)
- ترحب مجموعة حقوق الأقليات الدولية بقرار وكيل الجمهورية بدء إجراءات قانونية جديدة محايدة ضد أروى بركات وتطالب بإجراء تحقيق شامل مع الضابط الذي هاجمها (23 September 2021)
- MRG salue la décision du procureur général d’engager une nouvelle procédure impartiale contre Arroi Baraket et demande une enquête approfondie sur l’officier qui l’a agressée (23 September 2021)
- MRG welcomes the general prosecutor’s decision to start a new impartial process against Arroi Baraket and demands the thorough investigation of the officer who attacked her (23 September 2021)
- تندد مجموعة حقوق الأقليات الدولية بهجوم الشرطة والاتهامات الكاذبة ضد مستشارتها أروى بركات (20 September 2021)
- MRG dénonce l’attaque et les fausses accusations de la police à l’égard de sa consultante Arroi Baraket (20 September 2021)
- MRG denounces police attack and false charges against consultant Arroi Baraket (20 September 2021)
- Criminalisation of Patrick Zaki contradicts presidential message at the launch of Egypt’s National Strategy of Human Rights (15 September 2021)
- Suleiman Bouhafs case: Tunisia again violates its international obligations to protect refugees (30 August 2021)
- Affaire Suleiman Bouhafs : la Tunisie viole à nouveau ses obligations internationales de protection des réfugiés (30 August 2021)
- قضية سليمان بوحفص: تونس تخرق مجددا التزاماتها الدولية بحماية اللاجئين (30 August 2021)
- La langue amazighe : entre le risque de disparition et l’espoir de victoire (10 August 2021)
- The Amazigh language: between the risk of extinction and the hope of victory (10 August 2021)
- Communiqué contre le racisme et la xénophobie (23 June 2021)
- بيان للتنديد بخطاب العنصريّة وكره الأجانب (23 June 2021)
- Statement against racism and xenophobia (23 June 2021)
- Egypt: President should act to unshackle freedoms (1 June 2021)
- MRG concerned about anti-slavery linked arrests in Mauritania (28 April 2021)
- MRG préoccupé par les récentes arrestations liées à la lutte contre l’esclavage en Mauritanie (28 April 2021)
- La Tunisie va créer une Commission contre la discrimination raciale (28 April 2021)
- Tunisia to establish a Commission against racial discrimination (16 April 2021)
- Reporting back from the UN Human Rights Council (25 March 2021)
- MRG and others urge the HRC to react to Egypt’s crackdown on defenders and civic space (15 March 2021)
- States break silence to condemn Egypt’s abuses at UN rights body (12 March 2021)
- 31 دولة تكسر حاجز الصمت وتدين انتهاكات مصر لحقوق الإنسان أمام الأمم المتحدة (12 March 2021)
- بيان حول حملة الايقافات التّعسفيّة الأخيرة بتونس (9 March 2021)
- Communiqué sur la récente campagne d’arrestations arbitraires en Tunisie (9 March 2021)
- Press release on the recent campaign of arbitrary arrests in Tunisia (9 March 2021)
- MRG joins massive call for action on Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council (9 February 2021)
- Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back (14 January 2021)
- UN Committee to review rights of the child in Tunisia – MRG’s submission with PAD network (5 January 2021)
- UPR of Mauritania – MRG’s contributions (5 January 2021)
- لجنة الأمم المتّحدة ستدرس وضعيّة حقوق الطفل في تونس ـ المساهمة من مجموعة حقوق الأقليات الدولية وشبكة نقاط مناهضة التمييز (1 December 2020)
- Un Comité de l’ONU va examiner les droits de l’enfant en Tunisie – Contribution de MRG et du réseau Points Anti-Discrimination (PAD) (1 December 2020)
- MRG calls for the unconditional release of human rights defenders recently arrested in Egypt (20 November 2020)
- Historic court decision removing a key legacy of slavery in Tunisia warmly welcomed by MRG (15 October 2020)
- HRC45 – MRG raises alarm at the crackdown on the human rights movement in Egypt (25 September 2020)
- MRG welcomes Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata’s first report on COVID-19 and slavery (16 September 2020)
- The “Black Spring” taking Tunisia (29 July 2020)
- The Tunisian Organisations working to protect Sub-Saharan African Migrants from eviction in the time of COVID-19 (11 May 2020)
- HRC43 – Egypt: adoption of UPR report (13 March 2020)
- MRG condemns Egypt’s crackdown on minority activists (2 March 2020)
- UN Committee to review civil and political rights in Tunisia – MRG’s submission (19 February 2020)
- Azref i Tamezla – “The right to diversity” (18 December 2019)
- UPR – MRG’s recommendations for the reviews of Iran, Iraq and Egypt (20 September 2019)
- MRG and its partners welcome the Human Rights Committee’s recommendations against Mauritania (30 July 2019)
- UN Committee reviews Mauritania’s compliance with civil and political rights – MRG, ASI and SOS Esclaves’ Submission (3 June 2019)
- UPR of Egypt – MRG’s submission (28 March 2019)
- HRC40 – Minority Forum: SOS Esclaves’ statement on statelessness in Mauritania (13 March 2019)
- HRC40 – SR on Adequate Housing: MRG’s statement on forced displacement of minorities in Egypt (4 March 2019)
- Egyptian government fails to uphold its Constitution, discrimination persists for religious and ethnic minorities – new report (24 January 2019)
- الهوية والمواطنة في تونس: وضع الأقليات بعد ثورة 2011 (9 January 2019)
- One year Later: The Landmark Judgement in the case of Saïd and Yarg against Mauritania (17 December 2018)
- Raising Child Statelessness and Slavery Conditions at the ACERWC, 32nd Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa (28 November 2018)
- Seven years after the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia’s minority communities still contend with the legacy of discrimination – new report (23 November 2018)
- HRC39 – SR on indigenous peoples – MRG’s statement on criminalization of indigenous human rights defenders (19 September 2018)
- UN Committee to review the rights of children in Mauritania – MRG, ASI and SOS Esclaves’ Contribution (15 August 2018)
- UN Committee against Torture to review Mauritania – MRG, ASI and SOS Esclaves’ Contribution (15 July 2018)
- HRC38 – MRG calls for greater attention to the situation of minorities in Iraq, Egypt and India (27 June 2018)
- Mauritania under review. Discrimination Exposed (14 June 2018)
- Joint Call – Mauritania: “NO to Mandatory Death Penalty for Blasphemy” (9 May 2018)
- UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – MRG’s Submission regarding criminalisation and attacks on indigenous peoples defending their rights (16 March 2018)
- La décision du Comité des droits de l’enfant de l’Union Africaine représente une avancée majeure dans la lutte pour l’éradication de l’esclavage en Mauritanie, selon des groupes de défense des droits humains (29 January 2018)
- Ruling by the African Union’s children’s rights committee represents major step forward in fight to eradicate slavery in Mauritania, rights groups say (26 January 2018)
- MRG condemns the death of Nubian activist while in detention in Aswan, Egypt (10 November 2017)
- MRG calls for immediate release of Nubians after two months spent in detention in Aswan (1 November 2017)
- MRG condemns the detention of Nubians in Aswan, Egypt (26 October 2017)
- MRG condemns the detention of Nubians in Aswan, Egypt (5 October 2017)
- HRC36 – MRG calls for the Counsil’s attention to the situations of minorities in Iraq, Egypt and Cameroon (19 September 2017)
- MAURITANIA’S LEFT BEHIND: Exclusion and Extreme Poverty / LES OUBLIÉS DE LA MAURITANIE: Exclusion et extrême pauvreté (6 June 2017)
- Exposing a slave society (25 April 2017)
- MRG and Anti-Slavery International disappointed by the Mauritania Appeal Court decision, “another setback” to application of the anti-slavery laws (28 November 2016)
- Mauritania: Challenging slavery of Haratine Women and Children (13 November 2016)
- Mauritanie: La décision de l’organe Africain sur les Droits de l’Enfant de statuer sur une affaire d’esclavage représente une « lueur d’espoir », disent les organisations de lutte contre l’esclavage (27 October 2016)
- Mauritania: Acceptance of slavery case by African child rights body is a ‘ray of hope,’ say anti-slavery organisations (27 October 2016)
- Uniting lands of contrast – the language of street theatre (22 July 2016)
- Double court victory a potential game changer for slavery in Mauritania (20 May 2016)
- MRG et SOS-Esclaves réagissent à l’adoption du rapport final de l’EPU de la Mauritanie (17 March 2016)
- UN Expert calls on states to end caste discrimination (17 March 2016)
- Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation: The Continued Failure of the Justice System to Prevent, Protect and Punish (8 December 2015)
- Lack of political and judicial will undermining Mauritania’s anti-slavery law, MRG study (4 October 2015)
- New Mauritanian anti-slavery law is worthless if it is not implemented say campaigners (15 September 2015)
- Threat to populations in the Middle East still greatest from government forces, despite ISIS (31 July 2015)
- Mauritania ranked as worst place in the world for slavery, yet authorities ignore the problem, new MRG report (31 July 2015)
- Esclaves et discriminées : l’émancipation des femmes Haratines de Mauritanie (3 July 2015)
- ISIS now active in seven states in Middle East, but threat to populations still greatest from government forces – 2015 Peoples under Threat survey on risk of mass killing (18 May 2015)
- Egypt’s religious minorities bear the brunt of renewed insecurity, new report (9 December 2013)
- Speaking out against the silence: Violence against minority women (19 November 2013)
- MRG deeply concerned by attacks on Coptic Christian community (20 August 2013)
- A letter from Egypt: ‘Nothing is more uncertain than tomorrow’ (10 July 2013)
- Risk of mass killing rises in African countries following foreign military intervention – 2013 Peoples under Threat global survey (10 July 2013)
- Egypt needs an inclusive process towards elections and better protections for religious minorities (5 July 2013)
- Egyptian government must take immediate action to stop incitement to violence against Shi’a (24 June 2013)
- Egyptian government must ensure protection of all religious communities says international rights organization following killings (10 April 2013)
- MRG urges Egypt to give Constitution drafting process more time (30 November 2012)
- South Sudan faces threat of more killings as country jumps in ‘Peoples Under Threat’ 2012 ranking (24 May 2012)
- Minorities face attack as revolutions sour in Middle East and North Africa, says new global Peoples Under Threat survey (24 May 2012)
- Afghanistan most significant riser in global Peoples under Threat 2011 survey (12 May 2011)
- Concerns raised over situation of minorities in Middle East and North Africa (16 March 2011)
- MRG strongly condemns attacks on Christians in Egypt and Nigeria and urges African governments to address rising religious tensions (4 January 2011)
- Berber language education in Morocco a positive beginning (18 September 2003)
- Annan backs re-opened Egyptian rights and democracy ‘think-tank’ (1 July 2003)
- Egyptian court acquits Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Ibn Khaldoun defendants (18 March 2003)
- Egypt: Retrial for democracy and human rights defender (3 December 2002)
- Jailing of Egyptian dissident amounts to state persecution says human rights group (29 July 2002)
- Egypt: Grave danger of miscarriage of justice as Ibrahim retrial begins (9 May 2002)
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim Freed on Bail (8 August 2000)
All publications
- Understanding barriers to health care for minorities and indigenous peoples in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia (2023)
- Libya: The impact of water scarcity on Amazigh communities in the Nafusa mountain region (2023)
- The State of Cultural Citizenship for Egyptian Minorities (2023)
- Ending slavery in Mauritania: The impact of legal advocacy and strategic litigation from 2010 to 2020 (2022)
- Health services for Egyptian Border Communities during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
- The application of the 2015 anti-slavery law in Mauritania (2022)
- Mauritania: For many Haratines, slavery has simply developed into new forms of discrimination (2022)
- Egypt: Destroying heritage in the name of development – the monastery of Abu al-Darag (2022)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria (2022)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) (2022)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) (2022)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria (2022)
- Impact of Covid-19 on the rights of minorities and ‘minoritized’ populations: consultation with civil society (2021)
- Baseline study on the situation of minorities and discriminated groups in Tunisia (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Algeria: The ongoing struggle of indigenous Tamazight speakers in the wake of the pandemic (2021)
- Cas de discriminations collectés par les Points Anti-Discrimination et l’Observatoire pour la Défense du Droit à la Différence (2021)
- Mauritania: ‘I saw that the system was unjust – it strengthened my resolve to combat injustice’ (2020)
- Egypt: Copts continue to suffer the effects of hate speech online (2020)
- Analysis Report of the cases of discrimination collected by the Anti-Discrimination Points (2020)
- Morocco: Rising tensions between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary communities over land and water (2019)
- Justice denied, promises broken: The situation of Egypt’s minorities since 2014 (2019)
- Identity and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution (2018)
- Morocco: An Amazigh community’s long wait for water rights (2018)
- Landmark ruling on Mauritania’s continued failure to eradicate child slavery (2018)
- Enforcing Mauritania’s Anti-Slavery Legislation: The Continued Failure of the Justice System to Prevent, Protect and Punish (2015)
- Still Far From Freedom: The Struggle of Mauritania’s Haratine Women (2015)
- Mentoring Advice Pack (1999)
- The Copts of Egypt (1996)
- The Western Saharans (1990)
- Arab Women (1983)
Our past programmes
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE) (2021)
- Freedom, rights and justice: Combatting descent-based slavery in Mauritania (2021)
- Fighting against all forms of discrimination in Tunisia (All 4 All) (2021)
- Mauritania: Contributing to the elimination of persistent slavery practices (2020)
- ‘MRG’s flexible and practical support was instrumental in our success’ – SIDA evaluation, 2012-2018 (2020)
- Disability/minority intersectional discrimination project (SIDA disability) (2019)
- Protecting the rights of religious minorities (2019)
- Tackling Multiple Forms of Discrimination in Tunisia (Points anti-discrimination) (2018)
- Middle East and North Africa: Drama, diversity and development (2018)
- Mauritania: Creating an environment to help eradicate slavery (2017)
- Mauritania: Judicial workshops on the application of anti-slavery laws (2017)
- Mauritania: Gender equality for Haratines (2016)
- Egypt: Challenging discrimination against religious minorities (2016)
- Egypt: Challenging discrimination against religious minorities (2013)
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Advocacy statements
- Review of the 7th Periodic Report of Tunisia
- MRG’s recommendations to the UN Forum on Minority Issues
- UPR of Morocco – MRG’s contribution
- UPR of Algeria – MRG’s contribution
- UPR of Tunisia – Joint contribution from MRG and partners
- Egypt: President should act to unshackle freedoms
- MRG and others urge the HRC to react to Egypt’s crackdown on defenders and civic space
- MRG joins massive call for action on Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council
- UN Committee to review rights of the child in Tunisia – MRG’s submission with PAD network
- UPR of Mauritania – MRG’s contributions
Documentary films
- Fight against racial discrimination in Tunisia, work in progress: Regional consultation day in Medenine
- Les femmes sub-sahariennes en Tunisie, à l’intersection des discriminations
- Sub-Saharan women in Tunisia, at the intersection of discriminations
- Testimonies of a group of associations fighting against racial discrimination in Tunisia
- Traverser l’Afrique : la foi au long de la route – un film sur la religion, la migration et les identités sociales
- Crossing Africa: Faith on the Road – a film on religion, migration and social identities
القضاء على مخلّفات العبوديّة: لا “عتيڤ” بعد اليوم
- Abolir les séquelles de l’esclavage : « Atig » plus jamais
- Abolition of the legacy of slavery: ‘Atig’ no more
- HIV in the time of the pandemic – a bitter reality
Events
- CANCELLED – Moroccan dance & art – A Sofa Talk with Zineb Boujema
- EVENT: Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in North Africa: Progress and challenges in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
- EVENEMENT: Minorités et Peuples Autochtones en Afrique du Nord: progrès et défis en Algérie, Maroc et Tunisie
- La situation des minorités et autres groupes minorisés en Tunisie, entre discrimination et reconnaissance
- Minorities and minoritized groups in Tunisia, between discrimination and recognition of diversity
- وضع الأقليات والمجموعات المهمشة في تونس : بين التمييز ضدهم.ن والاعتراف بهم.ن
- La situation des minorités et autres groupes minorisés en Tunisie : entre discrimination et reconnaissance
- EVENT: The situation of minorities and other ‘minoritized’ groups in Tunisia: between discrimination and recognition
- MAURITANIA’S LEFT BEHIND: Exclusion and Extreme Poverty / LES OUBLIÉS DE LA MAURITANIE: Exclusion et extrême pauvreté
Key legal cases
News and blogs
- Démanteler l’héritage de l’esclavage en Tunisie grâce au travail juridique
- Dismantling the legacy of slavery in Tunisia through legal work
- Revitalizing Tamazight: The role of language education policies in Morocco
- Revitaliser le Tamazight : le rôle des politiques linguistiques dans l’éducation au Maroc
- Said et Yarg : Cinq ans plus tard, qu’est-ce qui a changé ?
- Said and Yarg: Five years later, what has changed?
- La Tunisie va créer une Commission contre la discrimination raciale
- Tunisia to establish a Commission against racial discrimination
- Reporting back from the UN Human Rights Council
- Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back
News from our projects
- Tunisia: achieving equality through legal means and lawyers’ support
- La langue amazighe : entre le risque de disparition et l’espoir de victoire
- The Amazigh language: between the risk of extinction and the hope of victory
- MRG and its partners welcome the Human Rights Committee’s recommendations against Mauritania
- Exposing a slave society
Press releases
مجتمعات المناطق الحدودية في مصر معزولة عن الرعاية الصحية المناسبة، وفقا لتقرير موجز جديد
- Egypt’s border communities cut off from adequate healthcare, new briefing shows
- States break silence to condemn Egypt’s abuses at UN rights body
- 31 دولة تكسر حاجز الصمت وتدين انتهاكات مصر لحقوق الإنسان أمام الأمم المتحدة
- Historic court decision removing a key legacy of slavery in Tunisia warmly welcomed by MRG
- MRG condemns Egypt’s crackdown on minority activists
- Egyptian government fails to uphold its Constitution, discrimination persists for religious and ethnic minorities – new report
- الهوية والمواطنة في تونس: وضع الأقليات بعد ثورة 2011
- Seven years after the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia’s minority communities still contend with the legacy of discrimination – new report
- La décision du Comité des droits de l’enfant de l’Union Africaine représente une avancée majeure dans la lutte pour l’éradication de l’esclavage en Mauritanie, selon des groupes de défense des droits humains
Statements
- Tunisie : des migrant.es subsaharien.nes expulsé.es de force dans un contexte de montée des violences anti-migrant.es et anti-noir.es
- Tunisia: Sub-Saharan migrants forcibly deported amid renewal of anti-migrant, anti-Black sentiment
- Oral Statement by MRG on Human Rights Situation of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Africa at 75th Ordinary Session of African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- MRG soutient l’adoption des recommandations pour l’élimination de la discrimination en Tunisie
- Escalation of racism in Tunisia must be stopped
- L’escalade du racisme en Tunisie doit être stoppée
يجب وضع حد لتفشي ظاهرة العنصرية في تونس
- MRG وشركاؤها قلقون بشأن وضع اللاجئين والمهاجرين وطالبي اللجوء في تونس
- MRG et ses partenaires préoccupés par la situation des réfugiés, migrants et demandeurs d’asile en Tunisie
- MRG and partners concerned about the situation of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Tunisia
What we do
- For a Tunisia without discriminations
- Minorities, Accountability and Civic Space (MACS)
- Research project on anti-discrimination laws in the Middle East and North Africa
- Realizing Rights for All: tackling the structural drivers of economic, social and cultural rights deprivations facing marginalized groups
- Fighting against all forms of discrimination in Tunisia (All 4 All)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE)
- Freedom, rights and justice: Combatting descent-based slavery in Mauritania
- Fighting against all forms of discrimination in Tunisia (All 4 All)
- Mauritania: Contributing to the elimination of persistent slavery practices
- ‘MRG’s flexible and practical support was instrumental in our success’ – SIDA evaluation, 2012-2018
Publications
- Understanding barriers to health care for minorities and indigenous peoples in Egypt, Iraq and Tunisia
- Libya: The impact of water scarcity on Amazigh communities in the Nafusa mountain region
- The State of Cultural Citizenship for Egyptian Minorities
- Ending slavery in Mauritania: The impact of legal advocacy and strategic litigation from 2010 to 2020
- Health services for Egyptian Border Communities during the Covid-19 pandemic
- The application of the 2015 anti-slavery law in Mauritania
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE)
- Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity in Algeria
