By: Timothy Large

Date: August 17th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia.

Now a new kind of radioactivity could head to her ancestral home in the remote Flinders Ranges - a nuclear waste dump.

By: Macharia Mwangi

Date: August 12th 2016

Source: Daily Nation

Dr Swazuri told State agencies to stop eviction of Sengwer people from Embobut Forest.

National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri on Friday ordered State agencies to stop evicting indigenous people living in their ancestral and forest lands.

By: Shihab Sarkar
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: The Financial Express

By: Star Country Desk

Date: August 10th 2016

Source: The Daily Star

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh observed the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples yesterday with a call for recognising them as indigenous people in the constitution.

Speakers at the programmes in different districts urged the government to ensure their education, health, land and social rights.

By: Paola Totaro

Date: August 9th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

The seven lowest scoring nations across all 10 indicators were in the Middle East including Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen

By: Artemio A. Dumlao
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Philstar.com

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: August 5th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would have displaced communities while opening the sensitive region to logging.

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: August 4th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 20 land rights activists have been killed in Brazil so far this year, with most deaths linked to conflicts over logging and agribusiness, data on Thursday showed, reinforcing the country's reputation for being dangerous for environmentalists.

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

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 in Taipei.

By: Shadrack Kavilu

Date: July 31st 2016

Source: Reuters

KITENGELA, Kenya, July 31(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's just before sunset, the time of day when Maasai herdsman Josphat Ole Tonkei would have been counting his herd of cows after hours in the grazing fields, a few years ago.

Source: The Guardian
Author: Helen Davidson

The Land Rights Act is “fast asleep”, and it continues to be easy for non-Indigenous people and groups to claim a share of Aboriginal land, the Gumatj leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has said.