Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, July 24, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 24 (IPS) – At a meeting with European and Latin American leaders…
Read more Brazil Back on the Green Trackby Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Jul 18 (IPS) – As human rights increasingly deteriorate, rights defenders are being violently suppressed. Abducted, detained,…
Read more Mandela Day Reminder to Stand Witness to Human Rights DefendersMartina Santa Cruz, a peasant farmer from the village of Sacllo in the southern Peruvian Andes highlands department of Cuzco, is pleased with her remodeled kitchen where a…
Read more Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in PeruIndigenous representatives like Raoni Metuktire, an internationally recognized Kaiapó leader, followed the Supreme Court trial on the temporary framework, inside and outside of the courtroom in Brasilia, in…
Read more A 1904 Massacre Could Help Save the Future of Indigenous Peoples in BrazilCredit: Martín Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, May 19, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 19 (IPS) – On 7 May,…
Read more Chile: New Constitution in the Hands of the Far RightAlessandra Korap is one of six recipients of the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism. When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village, nestled…
Read more Indigenous leader from Brazil wins top environmental prizeThe Sami people protested in the centre of Oslo against the Fosen wind farm, in the north of Norway (Jannicke Totland/ Natur og Ungdom) by Karlos Zurutuza (rome) Thursday,…
Read more The Sami People’s Fight Against Norwegian WindmillsThelma Cabrera and Jordán Rodas launch their candidacy for the presidency and vice presidency of Guatemala in December 2022, which has been vetoed by the courts, in a…
Read more Racist Political System Thwarts Candidacy of Mayan Woman in GuatemalaArusha, Tanzania: Maasai children taking their cows to a river. The government plans to displace about 150,000 pastoralists. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu, Oryem Nyeko (nairobi) Tuesday, February…
Read more Tanzania Should Halt Plan to Relocate Maasai Pastoralistsby Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Thursday, February 02, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb 02 (IPS) – On 25 January, roughly six weeks after being sworn in…
Read more Peru’s Democracy at a CrossroadsSolar panels with a capacity to generate 30 kilowatts no longer work in the Darora Community of the Macuxi people, an indigenous group from Roraima, a state in…
Read more Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazils Amazon JungleThe executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, highlighted on Friday Dec. 16 the results of the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources…
Read more Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15Aerial view of the Municipal Theater of Boa Vista and its parking lot covered by solar panels, near the center of a city of wide avenues, empty spaces,…
Read more Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern BrazilPlaces where Indigenous tenure is secure are where lands and waters are best protected. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS Opinion by Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Stanley Kimaren Ole Riamit Thursday, December…
Read more We Indigenous Peoples are Rights-Holders, not StakeholdersCanada PM’s visit to James Smith Cree Nation comes after leaders called for resources to set up tribal policing and addiction services. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is…
Read more Trudeau visiting First Nation community hit by stabbing spreeRepresentatives of native women from Latin America and other continents pose for pictures at COP27, taking place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Some 250 indigenous people…
Read more Indigenous Peoples Have Their Own Agenda at COP27, Demanding Direct FinancingLourdes Barreto squats in her greenhouse garden in the village of Huasao in the municipality of Oropesa, in the Andes highlands of the southern Peruvian department of Cuzco,…
Read more Agroecological Women Farmers Boost Food Security in Perus HighlandsOn the suspension bridge that crosses the Vilcanota River, in the village of Secsencalla, in the Andes highlands region of Cuzco, Peru, a group of men who have…
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