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Click on a country to read about the minorities and indigenous peoples it hosts in our World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Our programmes in the region
Minorities, Accountability, Rights, Independence and Organisational Development (MARIO) - Duration: 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025 Country: Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia Communities: Minority communities across Eastern… …
Land Body Ecologies – The impacts of environmental change on mental health (LBE) - Duration: 1 October 2021 – 30 September 2023 Country: Finland (Arctic North), India, Kenya, Uganda, and United Kingdom Communities: Ogiek (Kenya), tribal communities in the buffer… …Our archive
All news and updates
- Unheard voices: disability and minorities and indigenous peoples in research (19 December 2022)
- ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Community curator Anis Aktar on intersectionality within UK’s Disability Rights Movement History (16 December 2022)
- Deaf Muslims in the UK: Khalid Ashraf on intersectional discrimination in Britain (6 December 2022)
- Media Briefing: What is going on at the Belarusian border? (30 November 2022)
- UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s contribution (12 April 2022)
- Language Matters: Representation of Gypsies and Travellers in British media (17 March 2022)
- Smoked Fish: Using film to show the human toll of Anti-Asian hate crime (28 January 2022)
- Policing Bill: How the UK proves structural racism is alive and well against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities (15 April 2021)
- MRG condemns new UK Commission on Race and Ethnic disparities report (1 April 2021)
- Institutional obstacles to professional recognition in Portugal for Eastern European migrants undermine professional equal opportunities (2 March 2021)
- Joint statement: Civil society supports historic Genocide Amendment to UK Trade Bill (9 February 2021)
- Amendment to UK Trade Bill could be an immense step toward genocide prevention (3 February 2021)
- HRC45 – MRG calls for attention on how technology replicates and amplify structural racism in law enforcement (1 October 2020)
- HRC43 – “Our inability to achieve racial justice kills” (16 June 2020)
- Compulsory Purchase Order against north London market threatens a vital cultural space for London’s Latin American community, says MRG (15 April 2019)
- Pueblito Paisa and the Displacements Faced by its Latinx Community: The Long Term Threats Posed by London’s Gentrification for the Capital’s BAME Minorities (23 March 2019)
- Revoking Shamima Begum’s citizenship breaches her human rights, say MRG and ISI (21 February 2019)
- HRC38 – SR on racism: MRG’s statement on racial and ethnic discrimination as a root cause of statelessness (2 July 2018)
- Europe’s most hated in pursuit of a better future in the UK (8 February 2018)
- MRG condemns Spanish authorities’ excessive use of force during Catalan independence poll (2 October 2017)
- Compulsory purchase of Seven Sisters market vital to culture of London’s Latin American community, should not go ahead, says MRG (20 July 2017)
- Peoples under Threat 2017: Killings in the no-access zone (19 July 2017)
- Actions of the UK with respect to the indigenous peoples of the Chagos Islands – Universal Periodic Review 27th session (10 April 2017)
- Chagos Islands: The Right of Return for the Chagossians (17 November 2016)
- UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s submission (22 September 2016)
- Catalans: a renewed nationalist movement (27 February 2013)
- Enough is enough. Hate speech and discriminatory policies lead to harassment. (28 December 2011)
- Education against hate (12 October 2011)
- Human rights organizations called on the Hungarian government to regularly consult civil society in relation to the effective implementation of the recommendations formulated by the UN Human Rights Council during Hungary’s Universal Periodic Review (26 September 2011)
- Italy’s billboards of hate (7 September 2011)
- MRG calls for immediate halt to imminent forced evictions of Irish Traveller families at UK’s Dale Farm (31 August 2011)
- MRG ‘deeply concerned’ by Swiss ban on minarets (1 December 2009)
- MRG concerned over remarks made by Irish judge on Roma community (6 November 2009)
- European states regularly force Roma to return to Kosovo, where they face widespread discrimination (13 August 2009)
- Roma communities feel threatened more than ever before in Italy (28 July 2008)
- MRG new report critically analyses EU’s handling of minority rights in accession process (25 June 2008)
- UK anti-terror proposals threaten a ‘culture of suspicion’ against minorities (9 February 2004)
- Hatton and Others v. UK (application No. 36022/97) (8 July 2003)
- Muslims in Britain: Action Towards Equality – Panel Debate (11 November 2002)
- Price v. UK (Application No. 5493/72) (10 July 2001)
- Chapman v. UK (Application No. 27238/95) (18 January 2001)
- Dahlab v. Switzerland (15 January 2001)
- Minority Matters: Ethnic minorities and racism in Northern Ireland (1 October 1998)
- Seide v Gillette Industries Ltd (17 September 1980)
All publications
- Minorities, Accountability, Rights, Independence and Organizational Development (MARIO) (2022)
- United Kingdom: ‘Why is it we’re still faced with these same challenges?’ – the problem of racial inequality in academia (2022)
- Spain: The exploitation of migrant workers in the ‘Sea of Plastic’ (2022)
- Minority inclusion learning review of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland – Programmes in the Horn of Africa (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – UK: Equitable access to nature is more important than ever since the pandemic (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – UK: For the London borough of Newham, COVID-19 is the latest chapter in a history of discrimination (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Sweden: For Sámi communities, COVID-19 border controls could threaten a way of life (2021)
- Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021 – Spain: As the pandemic bites, growing numbers of refugees and migrants risk the dangerous Atlantic crossing to the Canary Islands (2021)
- United Kingdom: The Voices project – a unique platform for refugee children to share their stories (2020)
- Norway: Saami communities contend with the latest form of discrimination – ‘green colonialism’ (2020)
- Italy: Mining, migration and munitions in Sardinia – a linguistic minority struggles with economic decline (2020)
- United Kingdom: Rohingya refugees find a safe home in Bradford (2018)
- Italy: Another year of forced evictions for the country’s Roma (2018)
- Muslims in Britain (2002)
- Bangladesh is my Motherland: A case study of Bengali and English language development and use among ·a group of Bengali pupils in Britain (1992)
- The Saami of Lapland (1988)
- Co-existence in some plural European societies (1986)
- Diego Garcia: A Contrast to the Falklands (1985)
- Arab Women (1983)
- The Saami of Lapland (1982)
- The Two Irelands: The problem of the double minority (1971)
- Race and Law in Britain and the United States (1970)
Our past programmes
- Learning sustainable citizen participation: Democratic structures and fundraising strategies for grassroots citizen organizations (2020)
- Europe: Minority Realities in the News (2016)
- Walk into my Life (2016)
- Coordinated Public Action on Racism in Development (2008)
- Article 13 project: Mobilising Communities, Advocates and Lawyers to Challenge Racial and Other Discrimination in an Expanding Europe (2007)
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Advocacy statements
- UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s contribution
- HRC45 – MRG calls for attention on how technology replicates and amplify structural racism in law enforcement
- HRC43 – “Our inability to achieve racial justice kills”
- HRC38 – SR on racism: MRG’s statement on racial and ethnic discrimination as a root cause of statelessness
- Actions of the UK with respect to the indigenous peoples of the Chagos Islands – Universal Periodic Review 27th session
- UPR of the United Kingdom – MRG’s submission
- Forced evictions of Roma communities in Athens: Letter to Mayor of Athens
Documentary films
Events
Key legal cases
- Chagos Islands: The Right of Return for the Chagossians
- Hatton and Others v. UK (application No. 36022/97)
- Price v. UK (Application No. 5493/72)
- Chapman v. UK (Application No. 27238/95)
- Dahlab v. Switzerland
- Thlimmenos v. Greece (application No. 34369/97)
- Chassagnou v. France (application Nos. 25088/94, 28331/95 and 28443/95)
- Kokkinakis v. Greece
- Seide v Gillette Industries Ltd
News and blogs
- Unheard voices: disability and minorities and indigenous peoples in research
- ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Community curator Anis Aktar on intersectionality within UK’s Disability Rights Movement History
- Interdiction du « Burkini » à Grenoble
- ‘Burkini’ ban in Grenoble
- Language Matters: Representation of Gypsies and Travellers in British media
- Smoked Fish: Using film to show the human toll of Anti-Asian hate crime
- Policing Bill: How the UK proves structural racism is alive and well against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities
- We come to this world as human beings and we should stay human beings until our death – Part 2 of 2
- We come to this world as human beings and we should stay human beings until our death – Part 1 of 2
- Institutional obstacles to professional recognition in Portugal for Eastern European migrants undermine professional equal opportunities
Press releases
- Compulsory Purchase Order against north London market threatens a vital cultural space for London’s Latin American community, says MRG
- Revoking Shamima Begum’s citizenship breaches her human rights, say MRG and ISI
- MRG condemns Spanish authorities’ excessive use of force during Catalan independence poll
- Compulsory purchase of Seven Sisters market vital to culture of London’s Latin American community, should not go ahead, says MRG
- Peoples under Threat 2017: Killings in the no-access zone
- Human rights organizations called on the Hungarian government to regularly consult civil society in relation to the effective implementation of the recommendations formulated by the UN Human Rights Council during Hungary’s Universal Periodic Review
- MRG calls for immediate halt to imminent forced evictions of Irish Traveller families at UK’s Dale Farm
- MRG dismayed by France’s decision to ban wearing of face veils in public
- MRG deplores France’s decision to ban wearing of face veils
- France’s decision to expel Roma is discriminatory, says MRG
Statements
- MRG condemns new UK Commission on Race and Ethnic disparities report
- Joint statement: Civil society supports historic Genocide Amendment to UK Trade Bill
- Call to Action: EU Member States Should Commit to the Emergency Relocation of Unaccompanied Children from the Greek Islands
What we do
- Minorities, Accountability, Rights, Independence and Organisational Development (MARIO)
- Land Body Ecologies – The impacts of environmental change on mental health (LBE)
- Learning sustainable citizen participation: Democratic structures and fundraising strategies for grassroots citizen organizations
- Evaluation of INGO support: Human rights advocacy activities of supported international NGOs
- Europe: Minority Realities in the News
- Walk into my Life
- South-East Europe: Diversity and Democracy Programme
- Coordinated Public Action on Racism in Development
- Article 13 project: Mobilising Communities, Advocates and Lawyers to Challenge Racial and Other Discrimination in an Expanding Europe
Publications
- Minority inclusion learning review of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland – Programmes in the Horn of Africa
- Minority Rights: Solutions to the Cyprus Conflict
- Muslims in Britain
- Bangladesh is my Motherland: A case study of Bengali and English language development and use among ·a group of Bengali pupils in Britain
- Minorities and autonomy in Western Europe
- The Saami of Lapland
- Co-existence in some plural European societies
- Diego Garcia: A Contrast to the Falklands
- Cyprus
- Western Europe’s Migrant Workers
