Beyond their shared experiences of oppression and Islamist colonial occupation, the speakers also expressed concern about ...

The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Archbishop Christophe El Kassis, insists on the need for the rights ...

Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Peru faced the final day of a landmark hearing before a regional human rights court Friday over allegations that it failed to protect Indigenous peoples living in isolation in ...

Forests are more than stretches of trees for the Indigenous peoples and local communities who have lived among them for ...

What happens when the right to love who you want becomes an act of resistance? Peruvian filmmaker Sami Hawka is developing a ...

Around 476 million people identify or are identified as belonging to Indigenous peoples, representing approximately five percent of the global population. Indigenous languages, identities, forms of ...

By Karla Mendes “It’s such a simple phrase: stay alive! The other side is necropolitics.” This appeal was made by philosopher ...

(São Paulo) – Brazil should not impose an arbitrary cutoff date that curtails the land rights of Indigenous peoples, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Solicitor General Jorge Messias. His ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights in a landmark case that weighed the constitutionality of establishing a time limit for making claims to ancestral territory. Nine of the ...

As the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity’s 17th summit opens in Yerevan, Armenia, on Oct. 19, what’s at stake for ...