By Teodora Corina Hasegan
This is the Indigenous Rights Report for the week of November 23, 2019. In this week’s Report: Nine Pemon peoples killed in Venezuela New set of Equator Principles criticized for failing to uphold Indigenous rights A resurgence in Indigenous governance...
By Talli Nauman
MANDAREE, N. D. – New oil-and-gas pipeline protection measures could help people like Mandan Hidatsa & Arikara tribal member Lisa Deville and her family, who suffer from pollution leaking into air, land and water at the heart of the fracking...
By Adriaan Alsema
Protesters have blocked the highway that connects much of Colombia with Ecuador in the latest escalation of anti-government protests on Wednesday. Indigenous protesters blocked the Pan-American highway in Caldono, a locality between Cali and Popayan, and are intermittently allowing passage,...
By Jordan Davidson
Native Americans are disproportionately without access to clean water, according to a new report, “Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States: A National Action Plan,” which shows that more than two million Americans do not have access to...
By Mylène Ratelle and Francis Paquette
This year, Canada experienced record-breaking temperatures across the nation, with a larger increase above normal temperatures in the north than in the south. Canada’s annual average temperature has warmed 1.7C since 1948, but in northern Canada it has increased by...
By Alison Cagle
Rising above the Arizona desert, the Santa Rita Mountains cradle 10,000 years of Indigenous history. The Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Hopi Tribe, among numerous other tribes, have worshipped, foraged, hunted, and laid their ancestors to rest in...
By Teodora Corina Hasegan
This is the Indigenous Rights Report for the week of November 16. In this week’s report: Indigenous blood samples return to Galiwin’ku after 50 years in medical storage Brazil prosecutors push soy, cattle Moratorium to protect the Natives US settlement...
By Talli Nauman
DENVER – As of Nov. 17, all 63 written comments the U.S. EPA had received from tribal and other submitters opposed granting water permits for the slated Dewey Burdock uranium mine and mill in the southern Black Hills. If permitted,...
By The Guardians
We’ve lost a great warrior in our fight. They murdered our friend, our brother, our tireless companion in the defense of the forest, Paulo Paulino “Lobo” Guajajara. We’re mourning and our hearts are hurting. Lobo was killed because he defended...
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK – India has dropped plans to give forest officials the right to use force against indigenous people and open up more land for commercial plantations after nationwide protests. Proposed amendments to a century-old Indian Forest Act aimed to give...
