Minority and indigenous cultures around the world are seriously under threat, says Minority Rights Group International (MRG) in its annual flagship report, State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, which focuses in 2016 on culture and heritage.
‘The destruction wrought by ISIS in Palmyra in 2015 quite rightly drew massive worldwide condemnation,’says Carl Soderbergh, MRG’s Director of Policy and Communications. ‘But too little has been said about the ongoing devastation facing numerous minority and indigenous cultures right around the world.’
The 2016 edition of State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples highlights the impact of armed conflict, land dispossession, forced assimilation and discrimination on the most fundamental aspects of minority and indigenous identities, namely their languages, art, traditional knowledge and spirituality.
