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Engaging Media and Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding (EMMAP) - Duration: 1 March 2022 – 28 February 2024 Countries: Ghana, Senegal, Sierra Leone What is this programme about? This programme seeks to raise awareness of… …Our archive
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- International solidarity makes Auschwitz a living memorial (27 January 2021)
- Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back (14 January 2021)
- MRG welcomes Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata’s first report on COVID-19 and slavery (16 September 2020)
- An African perspective on migrants and migration in Senegal (4 December 2019)
- Senegal: the impact of the climate crisis on the fisher community of St. Louis (13 November 2019)
- “It’s Ogoniland today, but it could be your home tomorrow” (18 July 2019)
- Mauritania: Authorities must stop using arbitrary arrests to crackdown on anti-slavery and anti-discrimination activists (15 July 2019)
- Peoples under Threat 2017: Killings in the no-access zone (19 July 2017)
- “Land grabbing” in Africa: An emerging legal framework highlights a lack of accountability for the UK’s role in the violation of land rights (20 January 2015)
- Risk of mass killing rises in African countries following foreign military intervention – 2013 Peoples under Threat global survey (10 July 2013)
- Corporate irresponsibility in the Niger Delta (27 February 2012)
- Tackle religious extremism, MRG urges Nigerian government (1 February 2012)
- Afghanistan most significant riser in global Peoples under Threat 2011 survey (12 May 2011)
- MRG strongly condemns ethnically motivated attacks on civilians in Cote d’Ivoire, calls on new administration to investigate killings (11 April 2011)
- MRG strongly condemns attacks on Christians in Egypt and Nigeria and urges African governments to address rising religious tensions (4 January 2011)
- Agnes Ushang Ingwu (7 November 2009)
- More than a decade after the death of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa Niger Delta’s ethnic groups continue to pay the high cost of oil extraction (10 November 2006)
- Racial Discrimination in Nigeria: A UN Committee denounces the inertia of the Nigerian Government (7 September 2005)
- Nigeria’s Ogoni claim new oil industry abuse over demolition of shantytown (17 May 2005)
- Nigeria’s Ikwerre people describe oil and gas legacy of poverty and pollution (15 March 2004)
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- International solidarity makes Auschwitz a living memorial
- Quiet returns: Reporting from the places where migrants come back
- An African perspective on migrants and migration in Senegal
- Senegal: the impact of the climate crisis on the fisher community of St. Louis
- “It’s Ogoniland today, but it could be your home tomorrow”
- “Land grabbing” in Africa: An emerging legal framework highlights a lack of accountability for the UK’s role in the violation of land rights
- Corporate irresponsibility in the Niger Delta
- Agnes Ushang Ingwu
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- Mauritania: Authorities must stop using arbitrary arrests to crackdown on anti-slavery and anti-discrimination activists
- Peoples under Threat 2017: Killings in the no-access zone
- Risk of mass killing rises in African countries following foreign military intervention – 2013 Peoples under Threat global survey
- Tackle religious extremism, MRG urges Nigerian government
- Afghanistan most significant riser in global Peoples under Threat 2011 survey
- MRG strongly condemns ethnically motivated attacks on civilians in Cote d’Ivoire, calls on new administration to investigate killings
- MRG strongly condemns attacks on Christians in Egypt and Nigeria and urges African governments to address rising religious tensions
- More than a decade after the death of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa Niger Delta’s ethnic groups continue to pay the high cost of oil extraction
- Racial Discrimination in Nigeria: A UN Committee denounces the inertia of the Nigerian Government
- Nigeria’s Ogoni claim new oil industry abuse over demolition of shantytown
What we do
- Engaging Media and Minorities to Act for Peacebuilding (EMMAP)
- Strengthening the capacity of minorities and indigenous peoples to advocate for implementation of international standards
- Strengthening the capacity of African minorities and indigenous peoples to advocate for the implementation of African regional and international standards
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