Add your voice to banish Trouble from Paradise
Many of us dream of going on safari to Kenya. We travel content in the knowledge that our holidays protect endangered species, and our tourism helps to boost the local economy. But we rarely wonder who lived on the land before we arrived there, where they have disappeared to, or at what cost...
MRG believes that we all have a responsibility to practice not just eco-tourism, but ethical tourism – so that minorities and indigenous people are not evicted to make way for holiday-makers on game reserves or pristine beaches.
Add your voice and join our Trouble in Paradise campaign
Please sign our online petition in support of the Endorois, a pastoralist community from Kenya, evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for a game reserve in the 1970s.
The Kenyan government has failed to support vital peace-making efforts aimed at healing ethnic divisions in the country following the country’s worst outbreak of violence since independence, says MRG in a new briefing paper.
All over the world, ordinary women, men, and children are fighting for the rights of their communities.
MRG spoke to Ra'ed Al Mickawi, director of Bustan in Israel and Edgar Rúa of the Fundación Cultural 'Juan Guillermo Rúa' in Colombia (pictured).
Matilde Ceravolo, MRG’s Fundraiser (pictured), reports back from the first day of an MRG training workshop for Batwa Pygmies and NGO workers from Burundi, DRC, Rwanda and Uganda to combat discrimination against Batwa women in their countries. Read more...
Preti Taneja, MRG’s Commissioning Editor and co-author of an upcoming MRG report on Iraqi minority refugees, reports back from a research trip to Jordan. Read more...
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