Our work in South America
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Countries and territories in the region
Click on a country or territory to read about the minorities and indigenous peoples it hosts in our World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
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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,… …Our archive
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- Water In Abundance But Not Where Needed (1 April 2010)
- Afro-Peruvians take their case to the UN (30 September 2009)
- Peru earthquake: for Afro-descendants, the slow road to recovery (20 December 2007)
- Afro-Peruvians not getting vital aid despite being worst affected in Peru earthquake (22 August 2007)
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Advocacy statements
- Pronunciamento de Vidas Negras com Deficiência Importam na Segunda Sessão do Fórum Permanente de Afrodescendentes
- Oral Statement by Vidas Negras com Deficiência Importam at the Second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
- MRG concerned about the situation of black and other marginalized people with disabilities in Brazil
- Brazil: MRG denounces the situation faced by black and other marginalized persons with disabilities
- MRG and partners urge the UN Human Rights Council to monitor racial discrimination in Brazil
- Anielle Franco addresses the HRC about police violence against Black and LGBT+ Brazilians
- Recommendations to the Ecuadorian government to improve public policies and services for persons living with disabilities who belong to minority and indigenous communities.
- HRC41 – MRG statement on extractivism and racial discrimination
Documentary films
- Suárez Gold – Afro-Colombian miners defending their heritage
- Nuevo documental de MRG y Hollman Morris: El Oro para Suarez – Mineros afrocolombianos defendiendo sus raíces
Events
- COSP Side Event: Reaching Indigenous and Minority Persons with Disabilities
- EVENT: Afro-Colombian Day and Life – A Sofa Talk with Angelica Ricaurte Villalobos
Key legal cases
News and blogs
- Reporting back from the UN Human Rights Council
- Building back better: toward a minority, indigenous and disability-inclusive post-Covid-19 world
- Saying NO to peace in Colombia increases the risks for indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities, but for everyone’s sake the agreement must be salvaged
- Rio Olympics 2016: Where are indigenous peoples?
- Armed only with their Dignity
- UN Convention to stem coca leaf use remains deeply rooted
Press releases
- UN Committee makes historic recommendations to Brazilian Government on intersectional discrimination between disability and race
- Lives of indigenous people living in the burning Amazon must be top priority at G7 summit, says MRG
- For many indigenous and minority communities, ‘development’ brings only destruction – new global report
- MRG welcomes suspension of Bolivian Amazon road but concerned by reports of violence against indigenous protesters
- Chile must repeal anti-terror laws affecting Mapuche Indians
- Water In Abundance But Not Where Needed
- Chile apologizes for treatment of indigenous groups but communities call for end to systemic discrimination
- Bolivia to host alternative climate conference in April 2010
- Afro-Peruvians take their case to the UN
- One indigenous person murdered every 72 hours in Colombia
What we do
- Realizing Rights for All: tackling the structural drivers of economic, social and cultural rights deprivations facing marginalized groups
- Mecanismos internacionais de direitos humanos como forma de destacar discriminação interseccional de gênero, de deficiência e racial
- Highlighting intersectional racial, disability and gender discrimination using international human rights mechanisms
- From Disparity to Dignity: Realizing Indigenous & Minority Rights in Development
- Disability/minority intersectional discrimination project (SIDA disability)
Publications
- The Atrato River: An Afro-Colombian cultural heritage of resistance
- Colombia: The Atrato River, a landmark for biocultural rights among Afro-descendants
- Chile: At the ends of the world, upside down
- Ecuador: The right to water for Afro-descendant communities in Esmeraldas
- Paraguay: Lack of drinking water in the country that holds the world’s largest freshwater reserve
- The Situation of Black People with Disabilities in Brazil
- Indigenous Peoples and Poverty: The Cases of Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
- Afro-Brazilians: Time for recognition
- The Amerindians of South America
- Diego Garcia: A Contrast to the Falklands
