World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
Use this map or the regional sections below to learn about minorities and indigenous communities as well as our work with them.
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Since 1997, our World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples has been a trusted and verified source of information for journalists, governments, UN officials and academics across the globe.
Hamden Dali, a Black Tunisian, and his daughter Hedia, in Djerba, Tunisia. Credit: Slim Kacem/ROOTS.
A man from Guet Ndar, a fishers’ village on the Senegalese coast, increasingly inhospitable under the effects of climate change. Credit: Jana Čavojská.
Participants in an MRG training for members of the Mbororo community, Cameroon, June 2013. Credit: MRG.
A Bravan artisan from Baraawe, Somalia handcrafts a pair of sandals, showcasing the city’s renowned tradition of leatherwork at Via Roma, Hamarwayne District, Mogadishu, Somalia. 2022. Credit: Mohamud Siad Ahmed (Utama).
Di//ao G╪kao, Xoan// Niani, Se//ae /Ai!ae, N//ing /Ai!ae, and Baqu /ui (left to right) on the main street of Tsumkwe, Namibia. Credit: Tristen Taylor.
Zapotec environmental activist Carmen Santiago Alonso gives a few drops of the local spirit, mezcal, back to the earth, a local custom. Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca, Mexico. April 2019. Credit: Noel Rojo.
A Dominican young woman of Haitian descent. Still from ‘Our Lives in Transit’ (2017). Credit: Sofia Olins/MRG.
A campesino farmer picks up a goat that strays from his herd. Petorca, Chile. Credit: Cristian Soto Quiroz/Crsotoq Audiovisual Agency.
Taiwanese indigenous people protest in front of the Ministry of the Interior in Taipei, Taiwan on 14 March 2023. Credit: Wiktor Dabkowski/dpa/Alamy Live NewsTaipei.
A member of Thailand’s Malay Muslim community. Credit: Shabirin U-soh.
A Sunuwar participant at a public awareness rising gathering on Nepal’s census organised by CEMSOJ in September 2021, Hawa, Dolakha, Nepal. Credit: Bishal Rajbhandari/CEMSOJ.
A woman carries water from a canal in the village of Aliaul, near the former Aral Sea, in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. Credit: David Trilling.
A boatman from the Hawizeh Marshes of Iraq. Credit: Khalid Tawfeeq Hadi/UNDP Iraq via Water Alternatives/Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Indigenous women of Limerous village, Vanuatu performing traditional water music. Gaua Island, Vanuatu. Credit: David Kirkland.
Parwana Amiri, author, poet, teacher and activist, pictured in Ritsona refugee camp, Greece. Credit: Thomas Alboth.
Roma girls in Bulgaria celebrate their heritage. Credit: Arete Youth Foundation.
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Our strategy
We work with ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and indigenous peoples to secure their rights and promote understanding between communities.
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