Minority Rights Group International

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Minority Rights Group International (or MRG) is an organisation founded in 1965 with the objective of promoting human rights and increasing awareness of minority issues. Their headquarters are in London. MRG campaigns to promote the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples around the world, by carrying out advocacy, legal cases, research, publishing and training for minority and indigenous organisations. MRG is an accredited non-governmental organisation with the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

[edit] Some Recent publications

• State of the World's Minorities 2007 (March 2007)

• Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's minority communities since 2003 (February 2007)

• The Problem of Turkey’s Displaced Persons: An Action Plan for Their Return and Compensation (December 2006)

• Minority Rights, Early warning and conflict prevention: lessons from Darfur (October 2006)

• Electoral systems and the protection and participation of minorities (September 2006)

• EU-funded Roma programmes: Lessons from Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (September 2006)

• Substantive Equality, Positive Action and Roma Rights in the European Union (September 2006)

• Case Study of Conflicts in Indian Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Nagaland (August 2006)

• Minority Rights in Kosovo under International Rule (July 2006)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina: National Minorities and the Right to Education (June 2006)

• Preventing Genocide and Mass Killing: The Challenge for the United Nations (January 2006)

• Good Governance and Indigenous Peoples in Asia (December 2005)

• Aceh: Then and Now (May 2005)

• Kenya: Minorities, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Diversity (April 2005)

• Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples (August 2004)

[edit] See also

• minority rights
• minority groups
• genocide
• Non-governmental organization
• indigenous peoples
• human rights

[edit] External links

• MRG Homepage