The MRG podcasts are produced monthly by Minority Rights Group International and are part of a wider EU-funded programme called Minority Voices. Each month, presenter Emma Eastwood (MRG's Media Officer) scours the globe for stories, news, interviews and music from minority and indigenous communities…
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In May 2017, the Ogiek indigenous community of Kenya successfully challenged the denial of their land rights before the African Court of Human and Peoples…
The mass influx of vulnerable individuals who differ from the majority population in terms of ethnicity, religion and language has brought to the fore…
Welcome to MRG's March 2016 Minority Voices Podcast. This month we speak to one of our staff members about her recent trip to Iraq, an experience which…
Welcome to MRG’s February 2016 Minority Voices podcast. This month we ask Maasai women for their views on female circumcision in Kenya, and tune…
Welcome to the January 2016 edition of MRG’s Minority Voices podcast. This month we find out how discrimination is having the most serious of consequences…
Welcome to MRG’s Minority Voices podcast. This month, we’re taking a look at our flagship 2015 report, State of the World's Minorities and…
MRG's April 2015 Minority Voices Podcast features a report back from the jungles of Thailand, where indigenous communities are being displaced in the name…
Welcome to the Minority Voices September 2014 podcast. This month we are firmly rooted in South Asia - we talk to a young activist from India's little-known…
Our March podcast features music and interviews from a visit by MRG’s Media Officer, Emma Eastwood, to Batwa communities in south west Uganda. Batwa,…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s February 2014 podcast. This month we investigate the current situation for religious minorities…
Minorities and indigenous peoples suffer more ill-health and receive poorer quality of care, says MRG in a new global report.MRG's flagship report, State…
Minority Rights Group launches its 2013 Peoples under Threat global rankings table on 10 July. The survey, which lists countries where communities are…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s podcast. We’ve been away for a while, but now we’re back, bringing you new stories from…
In this month’s podcast we find out about racial stereotyping from an organization helping African-Canadians emerging from the justice system rebuild…
Welcome to MRG’s first podcast of 2012. This month we learn about the current plight of Kosovo’s Roma refugees who fled the ravages of the…
Welcome to MRG’s November 2011 podcast. This month we hear how Europe’s new member states could play a more significant role in alleviating…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s October 2011 podcast. This month we hear from a Bedouin woman from the unrecognised villages of…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s September 2011 podcast. This month we learn about the effect of development projects on ethnic minorities…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s August 2011 podcast. This month we visit an isolated cow-herding community in Cameroon and hear…
Welcome to MRG's June 2011 podcast. This month we hear how Bagyeli people in the rainforests of southern Cameroon are being affected by both resource exploitation…
Click above to listenWelcome to Minority Rights Group International’s May 2011 podcast. This month we hear about how it’s hard to be black…
Welcome to Minority Rights Group International’s April 2011 podcast. This month we investigate the situation for minorities in troubled Pakistan,…
Welcome to the March 2011 podcast from Minority Rights Group International. This month we hear about how minorities are affected by the exploitation of…
Welcome to the February 2011 podcast from Minority Rights Group International. This month we hear how indigenous communities in Cambodia are affected by…
Welcome to the December 2010 podcast from Minority Rights Group International. This month we hear from a member of the Nubian community, a minority who…
In our November podcast, produced and presented by MRG’s Emma Eastwood, we visit Iraqi minority refugees in Syria; speak to indigenous activists…
MRG is pleased to present our first podcast, which features interviews and music recorded by staff members as they go about their work in support of minorities…