Indigenous People
Military and law enforcement have clashed with demonstrators led by predominantly Indigenous protesters amid an attempt to clear roadways leading into the Bolivian capital, La Paz, which had been bloc...
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently took the significant step of issuing Technical Advice to Canada regarding implementation of the United Nations Declarat...
Amnesty International has condemned Canadian authorities for unjustly criminalising an Indigenous leader defending Country. On April 28, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia ruled that Likhts'amis...
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Secretary-Treasurer, Chief Marilyn Slett (K̓áwáziɫ), was in Ottawa on Tuesday - Canada's National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murde...
Stolen Generations survivors continue to be disadvantaged when the rights of Indigenous peoples are not embedded in law across the country, advocates say.
Australia stands at a turning point. The defeat of the 2023 Voice Referendum did not simply end a debate; it exposed how uncomfortable many Australians still are with the truth.
Canadian Indigenous leaders have urged legislators in British Columbia to vote down a bill which would suspended parts of the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Peruvians headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president and Congress, but illegal mining — a major driver of deforestation and mercury pollution — has received little attention on...
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned a 2024 lower-court ruling this week after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's native title over a swath of...
People in New South Wales live with some of the least protection of their human rights in any Western democracy. We have no federal Human Rights Act and, unlike our neighbours in the ACT, Queensland a...
A major study to be released this week will detail the extent of racism against First Nations people in Australian workplaces. Gari Yala 2 (Speak the Truth), a survey of more than 1,100 Indigenous emp...
The United Nations Secretary-General has warned the enduring legacy of colonialism — marked by entrenched economic exploitation, racism, inequality and exclusion from decision-making — con...
A growing list of more than 100 First Nations leaders and organisations from across the Canadian province of British Columbia have renewed their vow to defend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigeno...