Minority Rights Group International

Minority Rights Group International

Founded	1969
Type	Non-governmental organization
Focus	Minority rights Indigenous rights
Location	London, United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Website	Website Facebook Twitter YouTube

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is an international human rights organisation founded with the objective of working to secure rights for ethnic, national, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples around the world. Their headquarters are in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala. MRG has an international governing Council that meets twice a year. MRG has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

The organisation was set up in 1969 by a group of activists and academics "who feel a special concern that the rights of minorities to preserve and develop their cultural integrity are being infringed in many countries ... the MRG has been established to protect the rights of minorities to co-exist with majorities, by objective study and consistent international public exposure of violations of fundamental rights as defined by the UN Charter". Its first director was David Astor, editor and proprietor of The Observer newspaper at the time.

See also

• Genocide
• Global Human Rights Defence
• Minority group
• Minority rights
• List of human rights organisations

References

• Barzilai, Gad. Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-472-03079-8

External links

• Minority Rights Group International - Official website
• Online Directory of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
• Peoples Under Threat
• Covering Migration