Resources - Minority Rights Group

29 March 2024

Advocacy: a crucial tool for human rights defenders

Hear from training participants about the importance of advocacy as a tool for ensuring a society without discrimination.

13 March 2024

To Belong: An intimate self-portrait of the life of a Dalit in Nepal

Kumar shows us scenes from his daily life as he reflects on a life affected by caste-based discrimination.

1 July 2023

Language Discrimination in Iran

by AFH Film Production 2023 | 5 min According to UNESCO, every two weeks one language disappears and at least 43% of the 6,000 spoken…

1 July 2023

Ana: A Journey of Resilience and Resistance in Istanbul’s Alevi Community

by D. Barış Narlı | 2023 | 5 min Ana is a film about Sevim Yalıncakoğlu, a 43-year-old accountant who leads a congregation…

1 July 2023

Music Beyond Borders: A short film about anti-Kurdish discrimination in Türkiye

Join us in exploring the powerful story of a banned language and a silenced culture. This short film takes you back to the 1980s…

1 July 2023

Kenya: We are still saying that we should not be left out

2023 | 12 min In this video, Manase Ntutu shares his journey from organizing persons with disabilities to fight for their rights at the…

1 July 2023

Baháʼí in Lebanon: Who am I?

by Rani Bitar | 2023 | 12 min While the living conditions for Baháʼís in Lebanon are better than in the rest of the Arab World, despite…

1 July 2023

Hemshins: A journey through the impact of urbanisation and migration on the loss of culture and language

by M. Bay & D. Thorpe | 2023 | 6 min Hemshins is a short film that follows the daily routine of an elderly Hemshin grandmother living…

1 July 2023

Karin: The inspiring journey of the triumph of a disabled minority woman

by M. Bozcu | 2023 | 5 min ‘Karin’ is a moving documentary about the life of a disabled sportswoman from Türkiye’s Armenian…

18 May 2023

Anybody Hear Me: A short film that Explores the Endangered Kirmancki Dialect

by İ. Yıldırım | 2023 | 4 min ‘Anybody Hear Me’ is a touching film that sheds light on the endangered Kirmancki dialect of…

16 July 2022

Section 298

by James Dann & Mahshad Afshar | 2022 | 19 min Illegal by birth and persecuted to death, a minority community in Pakistan fights for…

1 July 2022

Deaf Muslims in the UK: Interview with Khalid Ashraf

2022 | 6 min Both Deaf people and Muslims experience exclusion and discrimination in British society. Both structurally and in daily life,…

1 July 2021

The Amazigh language

by M. Ben Aissa | 2021 | 7 min ‘The Amazigh language… between the risk of extinction and the hope of victory’ is a video documentary…

1 July 2021

Nepal’s Kirat Sunuwars reclaiming their religious identity

by Bishal Rajbhandari | 2021 | 12 min Kirat (also known as Kirant, Kirati Mundum or Kiratism) is an indigenous animistic religion of Kirati…

1 July 2020

Using film to promote tolerance in Bulgaria

by Manifest Media | 2020 The Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance (Amalipe) is a leading Roma organization working for equal…

1 July 2020

Busting myths about Roma housing in the Czech Republic

by Manifest Media | 2020 Forum for Human Rights (FORUM), based in the Czech Republic, focuses on international human rights litigation and…

1 July 2020

Partnering with media networks in Croatia

by Manifest Media | 2020 With limited online reach the Roma National Council (RNV) had to approach this project more creatively. RNV stated…

1 July 2020

Challenging online hate speech in Hungary

by Manifest Media | 2020 The Hungarian Roma-led NGO Romedia is a regional media organization, running media campaigns to promote awareness…

1 July 2020

The Power of Memes in Slovakia

by Manifest Media | 2020 Tapping into the popular cultural phenomenon of ‘memes’ in the digital world, the Human Rights Institute (HRI)…

1 July 2020

Even After Death

by D. F. Herman | 2020 | 55 min ‘Even After Death’ addresses the harrowing reality faced by over 20,000 people who have…

1 July 2020

A Horse Has More Blood Than a Human

by A. Talooni | 2020 | 20 min An Iranian border town’s transformation into a smuggling gateway to Europe. Watch the trailer

1 July 2020

Stolen Fish

A documentary on the exploitation of the Gambian coast by Chinese fishmeal factories

1 July 2019

Where we belong: Returning to Nineveh Plains

by D. Bosio | Co-produced by DARST & Manifest Media | 2019 | 22 min Iraqi forces have regained control of the Nineveh Plains, ousting…

1 July 2018

Dialect so-so

by IDIO Films | 2018 | 8 min ‘Dialect So-So’ highlights the success of the Thai-Chinese-Buddhist minority in finding dialogue and peace…

1 July 2018

Fatoni in My Memory

2018 | 7 min The region of Thailand currently known as the deep south, encompassing the provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and four…

1 July 2018

Minority Testimonies of Statelessness

2018 | 9 min In their own words, stateless minorities speak about how life without a nationality is affecting them and their loved ones….

1 July 2018

Slaves and Discrimination: The emancipation of Haratine Women

2018 | 18 min Tragically, slavery is still occuring in Mauritania today. This film highlights the experience of slaves and ex-slaves (also…

1 July 2017

Between Two Rivers

by Yad Deen | 2017 | 16 min The struggles of human rights activists in Iraq and the country’s human rights concerns. Watch the trailer

1 July 2017

Denial and Denigration: How Racism Feeds Statelessness

2017 | 3 min Everyone has the right to a nationality. Yet, many millions of people worldwide are stateless. Minorities and indigenous…

1 July 2017

Our lives in transit

2017 | 31 min ‘Our Lives in Transit’ is a 30-minute documentary showing life in the Dominican Republic in the aftermath of a…

1 July 2017

Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Tanzania and Kenya

2017 | 4 min A video report of impact of strategic litigation and legal empowerment on indigenous peoples’ land rights in Tanzania and…

1 July 2016

Up the Hills; Down the Valley

by T. P. Thao | 2016 | 18 min The stories of two Tai indigenous women living with HIV in Vietnam, from the brink of death to blossoming….

1 July 2016

Those Who Remain (Mayyel ya Ghzayyel)

2016 | 95 min Al Shambouk, a high peak located in Akkar, Lebanon, is the homeland of Haykal, a Christian farmer. In this complex…

1 July 2016

Shaheedo, Tum Kahan Ho? / Martyr, Where Are You?

by Mohammad Waseem | 2016 | 27 min Shaheedo Tum Kahan Ho gives an account of the targeted killings of members of the Shi’a Hazara…

1 July 2015

NouN

by A. Schlaepfer | 2015 | 25 min The marginalization, persecution, torture, forced displacement and murder of Christian Iraqis. Watch the…

1 July 2015

Rights and Reconciliation for Women in Sri Lanka

2015 | 3 min Minority women continue to grapple with the legacy of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict six years after its bloody end, according…

1 July 2015

The Manu Project: Building a 21st-century queer totem for 2015 Auckland Pride

by Emma Eastwood | 2015 | 6 min London-based friends and collaborators Lyall Hakaraia and Emma Eastwood conceived the Manu Project.

1 July 2013

Suárez Gold – Afro-Colombian miners defending their heritage

by Hollman Morris | 2013 | 30 min Afro-Colombians have been carrying out small-scale mining in Colombia’s Cauca region since their…

1 July 2012

Say My Name

2012 | 52 min Filmed in four countries, Say My Name, tells the stories of people on the outside of society facing extreme discrimination….

1 July 2011

Cicsero: the story of a Roma news agency

2011 | 6 min Cicsero.net began its activity in October 2008 in Cserehát, which is a small and marginalized region in the North-East part…

1 July 2010

A Journey to Imja Lake: Climate Change in the Land of the Sherpa

by Anna Colom | 2010 | 31 min In the Everest region of Nepal, the Sherpa people are already facing the impact of climate change in the…

1 July 2007

Rightful Place

3 min In 1974, the Kenyan government evicted the Endorois community from their land to make way for the Lake Bogoria game reserve and…