MRG is relaunching the Trouble in Paradise campaign in support of the Endorois, an indigenous pastoralist community from Kenya, evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for a game reserve in the 1970s. |
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Country in focus GEORGIAA humanitarian crisis is fast developing as thousands of people are caught up in violent clashes between Georgian, Russian and Ossetian troops in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. See the country entry for Georgia. |
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About the Directory The World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples is the internet's leading information resource on minorities around the globe. It is produced by Minority Rights Group International. Find out more about this Directory.
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Minority in focus OSSETIANSOssetians speak a language of the North Iranian language group and are thought to have originated in the fusion of nomadic, Sarmatian and indigenous populations of the North Caucasus in the fourth century. |
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