Iraq and Pakistan: promoting religious equality for inclusive development
Location: Iraq and Pakistan Duration: 4 years (2019-2022) What is the programme about? Are people who hold a…
What we do
MRG is the leading international human rights organization working to secure rights for ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous people around the world.
We work with minority and indigenous communities and campaign for recognition of their rights in the following ways:
- Advocacy and lobbying governments and the United Nations alongside and on behalf of minorities and indigenous peoples
- We publish authoritative publications that are widely valued by academics and the media
- We produce documentary films on a range of issues and countries – from Afro-Colombian miners to religious minorities in Iraq
- Our pioneering legal cases work advances the protection of minorities under international law.
- We deliver projects in many countries around the world (see below)
Our work, and the evaluation of our efforts, offers overwhelming evidence that the inclusion of minority communities leads to stronger, more cohesive societies.
We believe it is clear that exclusion can result in instability, conflict, and in the most extreme cases, genocide. We have worked with over 150 partners across 60 countries for more than 50 years to promote peaceful coexistence and sustainable social change.
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Tackling Multiple Forms of Discrimination in Tunisia
Project duration: February 2018 – January 2021 What is the programme about? This project seeks to address two types of…
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Iran and Iraq: Strengthening human rights defenders organisations working with vulnerable civilians
Location: Iran – Iraq Duration: February 2017 – June 2020 What is the programme about? This project seeks to protect…
Europe |
Media, Minorities and Migration
Location: Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia Duration: October 2017 – March 2021 What is the programme about? This project seeks…
Mauritania: Creating an environment to help eradicate of slavery
Duration: June 2017 – May 2019 Location: Mauritania Minorities: Haratines, people living in slavery What is the programme about? This…
Mauritania: Judicial workshops on the application of anti-slavery laws on behalf of Minority Rights Group International and SOS-Esclaves
Duration: September 2016 – August 2018 Regions/countries: Mauritania (Atar, Bassiknou, Nema, Nouakchott) Minorities: Haratines What is this programme about? MRG, in partnership…
From Action to Equal Rights: civil society facility and media programme in North Macedonia
Duration: February 2017 – February 2020 Regions/countries: North Macedonia Minorities: Roma What is this programme about? This project seeks to…
Ukraine |
Ukraine: Local authorities and civil society organizations together for an inclusive socio-economic development
Duration: Jan 2017 – June 2019 Regions/countries: Ukraine (6 regions: Kharkov, Kiev, Kirovograd, Lvov, Odessa, Transkarpathia) Minorities: Roma What is this programme…
Strengthening Human Rights Advocacy for Freedom of Religion and Belief in the Middle East and North Africa
Duration: April 2016 – April 2019 Countries: Lebanon, Syria and Iraq Minorities: Armenian Christians, Baha’i, Black Iraqis, Chaldo-Assyrians, Faili Kurds,…
Africa |
Realizing the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples in East and Central Africa
Duration: July 2015 – June 2018 Regions/countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Minorities: Batwa, Benet,…
