Minority Rights Group
@minorityrights
Millions of people miss out on basic rights because they are different. We work with minorities and indigenous peoples in defence of their rights. minorityrights.org
💡 The launch was followed by a regional peer exchange dialogue bringing together climate activists, CSOs, and academia to discuss the findings, engage in networking and build synergies and commitments on how to work together to address and mitigate threats to #EHRDs. ↪️ Stay tuned for more!
🌐 The research reveals that environmental degradation, securitized governance and historic marginalization systematically converge to amplify threats against indigenous climate defenders.
🌍 Across the region minority and indigenous communities face a heightening structural crisis where extreme climate vulnerability directly intersects with shrinking civic space.
INDIA / LATEST 🌐 MRG is deeply concerned by reports of the arrest and detention of five Indigenous human rights defenders in Assam. Protest is not a crime! Indigenous communities have the right to free, prior and informed consent! More ➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
EVENT ALERT 📆 Water as a Peace Issue: Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Water in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings 🌐 Side event to EMRIP 19: Water, Conflict, and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. 12:00pm, 15th July 2026 Palais des Nations Room XI Building A
DON'T MISS OUT 📽️ film premiere The Batwa of Uganda were evicted from their forest homelands in the name of gorilla conservation. IHAMBA shares their story of loss and resilience. 📆 27 May Register ➡️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/ihamba-off...
#MRGatUNPFII 🌐 Twisa Tripura (second from left) advocates for Indigenous rights at UNPFII in solidarity with Indigenous youth from around the world. ✊️ She is part of the Chittagong Hill tribes and works with Khagrapur Mohila Kalyan Samity - an indigenous women led organization - kmks.org
#MRGatUNPFII 🌐 Dolkun Isa, a prominent Uyghur human rights lawyer and activist, speaks as a representative of the NGO Global Human Rights Defense on behalf of Uyghur peoples in Xinjiang at UNPFII.
#MRGatUNPFII 🌐 A representative of Japan listens silently to a representative of the Ryukyuan peoples advocate for the rights of Ryukyuan women and girls in Japan. She requested a meeting with the representative of Japan, where Ryukyuan peoples do not hold indigenous status.
#MRGatUNPFII 🌐 Mariana Yumbay, a representative from Ecuador, speaks powerfully at the UNPFII discussion on ensuring indigenous peoples' health. 🗣️ She is a lawyer and national assembly member, who underscored the problems of Ecuador’s public healthcare system, which has been defunded.
Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Kwatirei Asurini of Asurini, Brazil at COP30. More at minorityrights.org/kwatirei-asu...
Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Ednaria Ytahy Guajajara of Guajajara, Brazil at COP30. More at minorityrights.org/ednaria-ytahy/
SOUND ON 🔊 A Coast Salish woman opens the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) with a powerful invocation composed by her family. We're here at the UNPFII alongside #indigenous activists from all over the world. ✊️ Stay tuned for updates!
Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Kelvin Merino of Ecuador at COP30. This is my first COP and I decided to come because this is the first time that the majority of COP participants are indigenous people... More at minorityrights.org/kelvin-merino/
Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Ruth Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda at COP30. More at ➡️ minorityrights.org/ruth-spencer/
REPORT ⚠️ The Rohingya Human Rights Initiative has documented widespread and systematic human rights violations committed against the Rohingya community in Rakhine State.
We're in Perugia at the International Journalism Festival! 🌍️ Are you a minority or indigenous journalist? Or a journalist covering minority and indigenous rights? We would love to connect! 📩 Please reach out to press@minorityrights.org
We call on the Israeli authorities to repeal immediately new legislation introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. It should be understood as an assault on democracy, equality and international law. It enshrines discrimination and inhumanity. More ➡️ minorityrights.org/israel-death-penalty
Voices from our programmes 📣 She came to Lebanon believing she would work as a nurse. Instead, she found herself working as a domestic worker under the kafala system. More ➡️ minorityrights.org/macs
Minority Rights Group is horrified by the impact of the Israeli military offensive in South #Lebanon on communities already among the country’s most vulnerable. The consequences are not borne evenly.
NEWS FROM OUR PROGRAMMES 🌐 Despite all the present challenges, our team in #Syria is meeting to strategize our approach to minority religious rights in the country. We met to discuss our plans national subgrants and international advocacy. More ➡️ minorityrights.org/programmes/voices-of-resilience/
You can participate in a tutored 6-week intensive training for human rights defenders and civil society organisation representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Apply now ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ minorityrights.org/jobs/aa-forb...
HAPPENING TOMORROW 🗓️ Side event to the 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
📢 📢 📢 We do not believe that capitalism is capable of providing answers to a crisis that it itself created. Check our website for the full interview ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ minorityrights.org/polly-soares/
In Central & Eastern Europe, civil society organisations are operating in an extremely challenging environment. In Romania, we supported five different organisations working to secure the rights of Roma communities ➡️ minorityrights.org/mario-romania/
JUST OUT 📣 Minority women excluded from Sri Lankan politics Though determined to represent their communities, they are shut out by cultural, religious, language and patriarchal barriers from their own communities and all political parties. MRG's new report ➡️ minorityrights.org/resources/to...
🚨 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY ↪️ The UN Human Rights Office’s Minorities Fellowship Programme is your opportunity to gain world-class training, expand your global network, and amplify the voices of your community on the international stage. Apply by 📆 31 January 2026 Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/izgIy7s
APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON ↪️ The UN Human Rights Office’s Minorities Fellowship Programme is your opportunity to gain world-class training, expand your global network, and amplify the voices of your community on the international stage. Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/izgIy7s