Indigenous Peoples

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Malaysian Baram mega-dam project scrapped, indigenous people take back land

By: Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon Date: March 22nd 2016 Source: Asian Correspondent SARAWAK’S controversial mega-dams project is officially dead – ending a three-year battle to stop developmental aggression. The Sarawak state government has finally bowed to pressure from local communities who have been

Brazilian indigenous people protest in the country's federal capital, Brasilia

Brazilian Indians protest plan to “undo” land rights progress

Date: June 2nd, 2016 Source: Survival International Brazilian Indians are protesting against the country’s political elite’s threats to break up their lands and limit their rights. As the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff moves forward, interim President Michel Temer and his newly

Guatemala’s Indigenous Peoples Endure Poverty and Contested Land Rights

By: The Editors Date: August 17th 2016 Source: World Politics Review

What will Indigenous treaties mean?

Date: 13 December 2016 Source: ABC.net Australia is the only Commonwealth country that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples and interestingly, the states are leading the charge, the ABC's editor of Indigenous affairs says. Stan Grant said there was still a "big debate" around the

Thousands march against land-grabbing in Bangladesh

Liton Das, Rajshahi Bangladesh November 17, 2015 Thousands of indigenous people took part in a two-day march in northern Bangladesh to press the government to establish an independent commission to end the problem of land disputes, which often impact minority communities. The 60-kilometer march

Pakistan: No Lake for Fishermen

By: Jan Khaskheli Date: February 15th 2016 Source: International News Magazine Indigenous people and local fishermen in one of the poorest parts of the country in recent years have seen various mafia groups on political patronage scrambled to grab lands they have inhabited for generations.

Bangladesh: "Protect ethnic minorities from land grabbers"

By: Our Correspondent Date: March 29th 2016 Source: Daily Star Demands human chain in Parbatipur town The ethnic minority people formed a human chain near Shaheed Minar in Parbatipur upazila town under the district yesterday, urging the government to take initiative to stop torture and

Brazil indigenous community faces imminent eviction over land dispute: Amnesty

By: Chris Arsenault Date: June 14th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An indigenous community in southwestern Brazil faces imminent eviction from its traditional territories, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, in a case exemplifying ongoing

Brazil's raging forest fires threaten indigenous land, uncontacted tribes

By: Chris Arsenault Date: September 21st 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires raging in northeast Brazil are forcing indigenous people out of their traditional territories and threatening uncontacted tribes, an indigenous leader said

Indigenous group ‘kidnaps’ Ecuadorian soldiers amid ongoing land dispute

By: Lisa Nikolau Date: December 21st 2016 Source: Humanosphere An indigenous group in northeast Ecuador said it has detained 11 government soldiers who were traveling through its territory in a canoe amid an ongoing dispute with the government over land rights.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, and AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde at the COP21 climate talks in Paris.

Indigenous Leaders Stress Cooperation, Rights in Paris at COP21

Several indigenous leaders from Canada are in Paris for the COP21 talks as part of the official delegation, bringing Native concerns directly to world leaders. Among them are Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde, AFN Northwest Territories Regional Chief Bill Erasmus and

Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN

Date: February 18th 2016 Source: TeleSUR The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.