Peoples Under Threat 2008
All around the world, groups are being targeted for killing because of their ethnic or religious identity.
Peoples Under Threat identifies those peoples or groups that are most under threat of genocide, mass killing or other systematic violent repression in 2008.
Read the Peoples Under Threat briefing (pdf)
This is the third successive year that Minority Rights Group International has compiled the Peoples Under Threat table as a contribution to early warning for civilian protection. To introduce the table this year, MRG's Executive Director Mark Lattimer analyses how instability has crossed international borders over the last year and looks at the links between ethnic or sectarian killing and the spread of violent conflict.
Peoples Under Threat 2008 is being published to accompany the launch of the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. As in previous years, it will also appear in the annual State of the World's Minorities, published by MRG in March 2008.