Are campaigners putting planetary concerns before people?
Indigenous communities are protectors of forest, yet they are being forced out by groups including environmental campaigners. India has a…
Huge victory for Kenya’s Ogiek as African Court sets major precedent for indigenous peoples’ land rights
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) wholeheartedly applauds an historic judgment from the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in…
The ICC at 10 Years: Crises of Cooperation, Capacity and Legitimacy
Chelsea Purvis and Awaz Raoof, lawyers who are currently assisting MRG’s Legal Cases Team, report back from a panel discussion…
We are enemies of ourselves
MRG’s Head of Law, Lucy Claridge, is in Kenya to gather evidence for two crucial international land rights cases. Don’t…
Part 1 – Training, interviewing, community visits and clubbing – all in a week’s work
MRG’s media officer Farah Mihlar shares her stories from the sidelines of a media training for community activists in Nairobi,…
“Taking the Ogiek out of the Mau is like taking a fish out of water”
Chris Chapman, MRG’s Head of Conflict Prevention meets with Kenya’s hunter-gatherer Ogiek community who, in the face of a possible…
