Indigenous Peoples

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Amnesty International raises concerns over Canada's anti-terrorism law, land rights

By: Karolyn Coorsh Date: February 24th 2016 Source: CTV News An annual report by human rights watchdog Amnesty International has put the spotlight on the rights of Canada’s indigenous people, highlighting the Liberal government’s vow to develop a public inquiry into missing and murdered

Sami Indigenous People Face Unprecedented Land Grab in Finland

Date: April 3rd 2016 Source: TeleSUR Finland's new Forestry Act is poised to rob Sami people of decision-making control over their homelands.

Land Rights Win: Alaska Native Tribes Win Right to Place Lands Into Trust, Enhance Safety

Date: 05 July 2016 Source: Indian Country Alaska Native communities have a bit more control over their land thanks to a July 1 ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that affirms their ability to place lands into federal trust, just as other tribes can, in what Alaska tribes

Australia: How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places?

By: Libby Porter Date: October 5th 2016 Source: The Conversation

Human rights defender under threat after relatives are killed in army attack over ancestral land

Indigenous human rights defender Ms Erita Capion Dialang has been under threat since the killing of her sister-in-law on 18 October 2012, during an attack by a battalion of the Philippine armed forces.

The Struggle for the Land: A View from the Philippines

By: Aiyanas Ormond Date: January 28th 2016 Source: The Mainlander

Many indigenous people lack title to land where they live, research shows

By: Chris Arsenault Date: March 1st 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people formally own just one-tenth of the world's land, according to research released on Wednesday as part of a campaign that aims to expand legal rights to land globally

Claudia Andujar sits amid an exhibit of her photographs of the Yanamami people at Inhotim gallery in Minas Gerais, Brazil, in November 2015. Photo provided courtesy of the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA)

Brazilian photographer fights to protect remote tribe's rights

By Sophie Davies Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a camera was. Andujar spent most of

Canada: Indigenous reconciliation proposals need to be enormous

By: Jesse Staniforth Date: August 4th 2016 Source: The Star

Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds

By: Jonathan Watts Date: November 2nd 2016 Source: the Guardian

Opposition to Oil Pipeline in U.S. Serves as Example for Indigenous Struggles in Latin America

By: Emilio Godoy Date: November 11th 2016 Source: Inter Press Service

Colombian tribe scores ‘historic’ victory versus Big Gas

State company Ecopetrol pulls out of drilling site in territories belonging to the indigenous U’wa people. The indigenous U’wa people living in north-east Colombia have won what observers call an “historic” and “decisive” victory after state oil and gas company Ecopetrol dismantled a gas