UN climate change negotiations fail indigenous peoples


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Outside the UN Climate Conference

The UN climate change conference ended on December 12th in Poznan, Poland, with states turning a blind eye to Indigenous peoples’ call for a resolution to set up a mechanism to enable them to input into future negotiations. Read more.

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Events

Challenging the Denial of Education Rights


A panel discussion and launch of the reports: Right to Learn: Batwa education in the Great Lakes region of Africa and A Double Bind: The Exclusion of Pastoralist Women in the East and Horn of Africa, on the occasion of the United Nations Forum on Minorities.

At Palais des Nations, Room XXIII, Geneva
16 December 2008 - 13:00 to 14:00

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Aimee Griffin

MRG intern, Aimee Griffin, attends a church service in London and meets Iraqi Christians in exile whose dreams of returning to their homeland are rapidly fading.

Endorois leader Wilson Kipkazi reports back from a chilly, but successful, visit to London to promote MRG's Trouble in Paradise campaign.

Meet the Campaigners

Fakhteh Zamani

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Fakhteh Zamani


All over the world, ordinary women, men, and children are fighting for the rights of their communities to be recognized. Fakhteh Zamani spoke to MRG about her work in support of Iran’s minorities.

A published expert in wireless communications, Canada-based Fakhteh Zamani is better known for her determination to remedy injustices suffered by Iran’s minorities.

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A show of hands

Climate change is threatening the very survival of communities.

Trouble in Paradise

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