The Forgotten Minorities brings forward the situation of peoples who have been pushed out of the world's attention. We work alongside their own representatives, carry their accounts on Meridian 21, and put their case before the public and the institutions in a position to act.
These peoples are not forgotten by accident. Powerful states profit from the silence around what is done to them. Influential frameworks in Western media and academia find that silence convenient. The result is the same whether the cause is calculation or comfort: whole nations and communities disappear from the field of attention while others, with louder voices and stronger institutional access, fill it. This is not neglect. It is omission as policy.
The program's initial scope covers the Druze, the Kurds, the Amazigh, the Baluchi, the Darfuris - Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa - the Yazidi, the Uyghur, the Tibetans, and others. Some are stateless. Some live under occupation. Some are denied the right to use their own language or practise their own religion. The list is not closed; it grows as we build the relationships that let us cover a people responsibly.
How the program works
We do not speak for these peoples. We work with their authentic representatives - the diaspora organisations, the documentation projects, the journalists and advocates who carry their communities' record - and we give them a genuine platform rather than a mention.
In practice that means:
- Platform. Space on Meridian 21 for journalists, advocates, and witnesses from forgotten communities to be read in their own words; space on Libera Mondo Newsletter and our social media.
- Documentation. Support for the slow work of recording testimony and assembling the factual record that larger humanitarian responders, constrained by the need for operational access, cannot do.
- Engagement. Bringing that record to parliaments, decision-making bodies, and the public who can act on it.
Where we stand
Libera Mondo is strictly non-partisan and apolitical. We do not align with any country, government, ideology, or political position other than the belief in freedom and democracy. We hold that the right to life in freedom and dignity belongs to every person regardless of sex, sexual orientation, race, or religion, and that the same is true of the collective rights of every ethno-cultural group. We apply that standard everywhere, to everyone, without the double standards that have let so many of these peoples fall out of view.
We let the evidence carry the case. The peoples named here have waited a long time for someone to set the record down plainly. That is the work of this program.
A voice for the forgotten.