Indigenous Rights
The West Papua provincial government has stressed to Jakarta any release of forest areas for palm oil plantation expansion must obtain approval from Indigenous communities, who under new protections h...
Gur A Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council (GBK), with partner organisations, has announced a week of public events to mark the 90th anniversary of the 1936 Torres Strait Islander Maritim...
Indigenous Nations have won a major legal victory in the Canadian province of British Columbia. On Friday, the Gitxaala and Ehattesaht Nations secured a landmark victory at the BC Court of Appeal, wit...
When Thomas Mayo stepped onto the stage on Larrakia Country at the recent Hatchery First Nations Unlimited Leadership Summit recently a quiet settled over the room.
This article contains reporting of child removals some readers may find distressing. Greenlandic mother Keira Alexandra Kronvold has spent more than a year fighting to have her baby returned after Dan...
When our team from the Australian National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice (NCRTJ) travelled to Canada, we were struck by how visible and structured their national approach to truth-telli...
Aboriginal Australia is at a crossroads. Traditionally federal Labor governments have offered more on Indigenous policy than the Coalition. There is a dawning realisation among many of us that these d...
The Heiltsuk Nation released an expert report on Friday on Indigenous Consumer Racial Profiling as part of filings for a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal complaint against Canadian Tire that wil...
This month, the United Nations published a landmark report that I had the honour of co-authoring: The Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge Dialogues, part of the Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-...
Since 2021, Chile has celebrated the diversity of its nation through the commemoration of National Indigenous Peoples' Day. Held on June 20 this year, the date depends on winter solstice in the Southe...
A global race to secure critical minerals is placing environmental protections and Indigenous rights at risk, experts have warned at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).
Indiana University has completed its first international repatriation of human remains to the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island. The remains were originally donated to Indiana University (IU) in the 19...
Having spent her career advocating for change, Juno Gemes is a name synonymous with Australian photography, journalism and social justice. Gemes' photographs are renowned for making visible the histor...
