Indigenous Rights

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With song and seed, Brazil’s Indigenous Maxakali confront climate change | Climate Crisis News
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With song and seed, Brazil’s Indigenous Maxakali confront climate change | Climate Crisis News

Maxakali territory once spanned at least three large valleys in the Atlantic Forest. Elders in the village remember how the forest supplied food,...

Fact-checking Trump’s claims at 100-day rally in Michigan | Donald Trump News
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Fact-checking Trump’s claims at 100-day rally in Michigan | Donald Trump News

Donald Trump’s speech in Warren, Michigan, marking his 100th day in office sounded a lot like something the United States president clearly loves:...

Ecuador’s Indigenous movement splinters over presidential election support | Elections News
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Ecuador’s Indigenous movement splinters over presidential election support | Elections News

Still, Gonzalez’s Indigenous supporters emphasise that she is not Correa. And Noboa, they say, has the potential to do worse. “Noboa is a...

Aboriginal group seeks .1bn in damages over Australia mining project | Indigenous Rights News
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Aboriginal group seeks $1.1bn in damages over Australia mining project | Indigenous Rights News

The Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation filed the landmark case against Western Australia’s state government. An Aboriginal group is seeking 1.8 billion Australian dollars...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier released from US prison | Indigenous Rights News
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Native American activist Leonard Peltier released from US prison | Indigenous Rights News

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has left a Florida prison after nearly five decades behind bars, following a commutation from former United States...

‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius | Politics News
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‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius | Politics News

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful...

‘Our lifeline’: Kashmiris fear losing orchards, land to mega Modi projects | Indigenous Rights News
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‘Our lifeline’: Kashmiris fear losing orchards, land to mega Modi projects | Indigenous Rights News

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Malik Haroon crouches on the ground covered with white frost on an early winter morning in Dafferpora village in...

‘Denying our truth’: Fighting residential school denialism in Canada | Indigenous Rights News
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‘Denying our truth’: Fighting residential school denialism in Canada | Indigenous Rights News

While Indigenous communities have long known about deaths at residential schools and the existence of unmarked burial sites, for much of Canada’s history,...

A ray of sunshine for Myanmar’s wounded rebels as civil war rages | Conflict News
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A ray of sunshine for Myanmar’s wounded rebels as civil war rages | Conflict News

Mae Sot, Thailand – Within an old wooden house in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, wounded revolutionary fighters lie side by...