Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Ednaria Ytahy Guajajara of Guajajara, Brazil at COP30.

More at minorityrights.org/ednaria-ytahy/

SOUND ON 🔊 A Coast Salish woman opens the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) with a powerful invocation composed by her family.

We're here at the UNPFII alongside #indigenous activists from all over the world. ✊️

Stay tuned for updates!

Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Kelvin Merino of Ecuador at COP30.

This is my first COP and I decided to come because this is the first time that the majority of COP participants are indigenous people...

More at minorityrights.org/kelvin-merino/

Our Latin America Advisor, Bethânia da Silva, interviewed Ruth Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda at COP30.

More at ➡️ minorityrights.org/ruth-spencer/

REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS

Read the report ➡️ www.rohringya.org/myanmar/repo...

REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS

Drawing on first-hand testimonies, the report highlights patterns of a broader, organized campaign violence, including forced conscription, mass displacement, destruction of civilian infrastructure, village burnings, the rape of women and minor girls, and financial extortion by the Arakan Army.

REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS REPORT SUMMARY: THE SEIGE OF ARAKAN LOOKING INSIDE ARAKAN ARMY "S GENOCIDE TACTICS AGAINST ROHINGYAS

The report presents evidence that the Arakan Army and the United League of Arakan, while engaged in armed conflict with the Myanmar military junta, have simultaneously carried out acts that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity targeting Rohingya.

REPORT ⚠️ The Rohingya Human Rights Initiative has documented widespread and systematic human rights violations committed against the Rohingya community in Rakhine State.

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Eight years prison sentence against woman human rights defender Saadia Mosbah Translate

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We call on the Israeli authorities to repeal immediately new legislation introducing the death penalty for Palestinians.

It should be understood as an assault on democracy, equality and international law.

It enshrines discrimination and inhumanity.

More ➡️ minorityrights.org/israel-death-penalty

Voices from our programmes 📣 She came to Lebanon believing she would work as a nurse.

Instead, she found herself working as a domestic worker under the kafala system.

More ➡️ minorityrights.org/macs

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

Renewed displacement is therefore not a self-contained emergency.

It is compounding existing fragility, reopening unhealed wounds and deepening patterns of exclusion that predate the current hostilities.

More 🔗https://minorityrights.org/risk-leb/

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

This escalation is unfolding in a Lebanon already devastated by successive crises: economic collapse, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beirut port explosion, displacement and the long strain of hosting one of the largest refugee populations per capita in the world.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

Refugees, migrant workers and other marginalised groups face the conflict with weaker access to shelter, healthcare, documentation and protection.

Children and women are at heightened risk of family separation, interrupted education, gender-based violence and long-term psychological harm.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

Numerous historic churches and religious sites have already been destroyed by Israeli attacks since 2023. As well as physical safety, the continuity of community life, cultural transmission and collective memory are also at risk.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

For some vulnerable communities in the south, the risk is not only displacement but total erosion; historic Christian villages, already weakened in numbers by conflict and emigration, face further isolation and depopulation.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

We call on the intl community & the United Nations, to provide urgent support, monitor the differential impact of this offensive, & press for full compliance with international humanitarian and human rights law, & to ensure that protection mandates are exercised with the urgency this moment demands.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

We call on the Lebanese authorities to ensure that the response to displacement is inclusive, non-discriminatory and attentive to the specific vulnerabilities of minorities, refugees, women and children.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

We note with alarm the statements of Israeli officials, who have explicitly called for the annexation of all territory below the Litani River. This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

We call on Israel to cease immediately all military actions causing civilian displacement, collective punishment and disproportionate harm, and to comply fully with international humanitarian law.

Minorities in Lebanon at risk - Minority Rights Group This would constitute an invasion of sovereign Lebanese territory and a fundamental violation of international law.

They fall disproportionately on peripheral, border-adjacent and historically disadvantaged communities, including minorities, refugees, migrant workers, women and children.

Minority Rights Group is horrified by the impact of the Israeli military offensive in South #Lebanon on communities already among the country’s most vulnerable. The consequences are not borne evenly.

NEWS FROM OUR PROGRAMMES 🌐 Despite all the present challenges, our team in #Syria is meeting to strategize our approach to minority religious rights in the country.

We met to discuss our plans national subgrants and international advocacy.

More ➡️ minorityrights.org/programmes/voices-of-resilience/

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Freedom for Saadia Mosbah No to racism in all its forms - [:en]FTDES[:fr]FTDES[:ar]المنتدى التونسي للحقوق الاقتصادية والاجتماعية[:] Freedom for Saadia MosbahNo to racism in all its formsOn the evening of Thursday, March 19, the Court of First […]

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You can participate in a tutored 6-week intensive training for human rights defenders and civil society organisation representatives from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

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‘In the face of death, we are all equal’: Ukraine’s Roma fight for recognition for those serving in war With many lacking official documentation or unable to speak Ukrainian, the families of men killed in action are struggling to get the compensation they are owed

In the face of death, we are equal.

In the face of state institutions, we are not.

Many Roma in Ukraine are legally invisible.

This matters when it comes to compensation for those lost in war. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

HAPPENING TOMORROW 🗓️

Side event to the 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council

📢 📢 📢 We do not believe that capitalism is capable of providing answers to a crisis that it itself created.

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