Minority Rights Group International (MRG)
Groupement pour les droits des minorités
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Contact Details
URL: https://www.minorityrights.org/
Founded
1966 London UK
Aims
Support minorities and indigenous peoples as they strive to maintain their rights to the lands they live on, the languages they speak, to practise their beliefs, to equal opportunities in education and employment, and full participation in public life.
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Associated with Department of Global Communications of the United Nations.
- Accredited by: International Whaling Commission (IWC)
- Accredited by: United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
- Links with: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Links with: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- Links with: Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- Links with: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Links with: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Links with: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Links with: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Founding member of: U-XF5938 - Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR). International Associate of: E-XE4255 - International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN).
Also links with a large number of national organizations.
- Member of: Alliance Against Genocide (AAG)
- Member of: Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
- Member of: Coalition of European Lobbies on Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP)
- Member of: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)
- Member of: Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN)
- Member of: International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)
- Member of: International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)
- Member of: International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD)
- Member of: Minority Research Network
- Member of: Refugee Council
- Member of: Sudan Consortium
- Member of: World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
- Partner of: Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID)
- Links with: African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS)
- Links with: African Initiative For Mankind Progress Organization (AIMPO)
- Links with: Amnesty International (AI)
- Links with: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA)
- Links with: Baha'i International Community
- Links with: Folkekirkens Nødhjaelp (FKN)
- Links with: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict Foundation (GPPAC Foundation)
- Links with: Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa)
- Links with: Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- Links with: International Alert
- Links with: International Broadcasting Trust (IBT)
- Links with: International Federation for Human Rights
- Links with: International Peace Research Association (IPRA)
- Links with: Leadership Initiative for Transformation and Empowerment (LITE-Africa)
- Links with: NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, New York NY
- Links with: Rädda Barnen - Save the Children Sweden
- Links with: Save the Children UK (SC UK)
- Links with: Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)
- Links with: World Federalist Movement - Movement for a Just World Order through a Strengthened United Nations (WFM)
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UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF0172
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