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12 March 2025
Chagos: Britain’s Last African Colony where human rights do not exist
What hope is there of Chagossians being given back any of the land from which they were forced?
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10 May 2021
MRG joins civil society call for the UN to investigate systemic racism in the police in the US, and to monitor this phenomenon globally
Re: The UN Human Rights Council’s role to ensure effective accountability and follow-up to HRC Resolution 43/1 Dear High Commissioner,…
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21 April 2021
A welcome judgment but not yet justice
By Carl Söderbergh The guilty verdict brought by a jury in the United States against ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of…
Sofa Talks
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25 January 2022
Eden Fine Day: her music, language and Canada’s ‘residential schools’
Eden Fine Day (she/her) is an Indigenous songwriter, singer and author. An intergenerational survivor of ‘residential schools’,…
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14 June 1996
Afro-Central Americans: Rediscovering the African heritage
Central Americans of African ancestry have historically been an oppressed and neglected minority. Almost all descended from slaves, and…
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1 June 1995
No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today
The distinct but extraordinarily diverse ethnic and cultural identities of Afro-Latin Americans have received little official recognition….
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1 January 1994
Polar Peoples: Self-determination and development
The northern regions of the globe were populated by indigenous peoples long before explorers, gold-diggers, bureaucrats and others…
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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,…
Digital reports
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20 June 2023
United States: No end in sight to the Jackson water crisis?
Water shortages in Jackson are adding to an already existing social and economic breakdown.
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Video on demand 21 July 2023 • 5:00 – 7:00 pm BST
Water Justice in the Americas Symposium
Organized by The Splash Project with Minority Rights Group International (MRG), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Mérida and…
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Video on demand 25 January 2022 • 5:00 – 6:00 pm CET
Music, language and Canada’s ‘residential schools’ – Eden Fine Day
Eden Fine Day (she/her) is an Indigenous songwriter, singer and author. An intergenerational survivor of ‘residential schools’,…
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