Indigenous Peoples

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Indonesian indigenous group seeks return of ancestral land

By: Ryan Dagur Date: April 7th 2016 Source: UCA News 'We have the right to cultivate our own property,' protester says Nearly 200 indigenous people in Indonesia's predominantly Catholic East Nusa Tenggara province are staging a sit-in protest to regain calling for the return of their ancestral

Taiwan's indigenous people finally get an official apology

By: Shondiin Silversmith Date: August 3rd 2016 Source: PRI.org For the first time in history, Taiwan’s government has apologized to the indigenous people of the island for generations of abuse. The country’s President Tsai Ing-wen gave an official apology this week outside her office building

Guatemala’s indigenous people are at risk of losing their land

By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee Date: October 10th 2016 Source: ThinkProgress About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.

Insecurity among indigenous peoples of Northern region of Bangladesh increased, demand for immediate formation of land commission to restitute the dispossessed land of them

On 24 February 2015, Jatiya Adivasi Parishad and Kapaeeng Foundation jointly organized a press conference protesting ongoing violence, evictions, murder and rape, and demanded to ensure security of indigenous peoples of northern region of Bangladesh at Reporters Unity in Dhaka. Rabindranath

A newly installed fence encloses cleared land on Cuyabia territory in Paraguay. All photographs by Toby Stirling Hill

Disappearing world: Paraguay's Ayoreo people fight devastating land sales

An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of life By Toby Stirling Hill

Bangladesh: Separate land commission for plain land indigenous people demanded

Date: March 10th 2016 Source: Dhaka Tribune Speakers at a token hunger strike yesterday demanded a separate land commission for indigenous people living in plain lands. The hunger strike was organised by Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Citizens’ Committee and CHT Headman

Forest lands and indigenous people 'increasingly insecure’ as Paris Agreement signed

By: Rebecca Myles Date: April 22nd 2016 Source: RT Representatives from 155 countries are in New York to sign a climate-change agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures. Forest-dwelling indigenous peoples claim the pact ignores them and that they face assaults when trying to protect

Malaysia: Indigenous communities want their maps recognised

By: Loh Foon Fong Date: August 7th 2016 Source: The Star Online SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.

Energy Transfer says not slowing down construction of North Dakota oil pipeline

By: Liz Hampton Date: November 8th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Energy Transfer Partners LP on Tuesday said it was not slowing down construction of its Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, a project contested by environmentalists and Native Americans groups.

Russia: Khanty clans say "no" to oil companies

"This is the last piece of land where we can feed our reindeer." In West-Siberia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, a region of the size of France, where much of Russia’s crude oil is extracted, a new conflict between indigenous Khanty reindeer herders and the powerful oil producers is