Indonesia passes agrarian reform law amid concerns over land protections
By Hans Nicholas Jong September 28, 2026 Credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Greenpeace Indonesia’s long-debated Agrarian Reform Regulation Law was approved on Sept. 22. The legislation establishes a framework for resolving agrarian land disputes, restoring land rights and redistributing land, but details of how the law will operate remain unclear. JAKARTA — Indonesia’s parliament has passed a law intended to resolve long-running land conflicts and curb land concentration, but civil soc
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Criminal networks threaten the Amazon
By Steven Grattan October 18, 2026 Credit: AP BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation to a United Nations conference in Vienna starting Monday. More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13. The leaders want governments to tackle th
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How Bolivian medicine viewed Indigenous people
Research into early 20th-century medical journals reveals how scientific racism shaped representations of the Andean population By: Caio Ruvenal Published: October 12, 2026 An Aymara Indigenous person photographed by French anthropologists in the early 20th century for an anthropological study. ARTHUR CHERVIN The coronavirus arrived in Bolivia amid uncertainty and panic that gave rise to racism. There are reports in which Indigenous people say they were denied medical care be
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Oct 16
Tanzanian Government Abducts Maasai Villagers
By: Anuradha Mittal October 12, 2026 4:30 PM PDT Maasai protest in Arusha, February 2024. Credit: The Oakland Institute Human rights conditions in northern Tanzania have deteriorated sharply since August, as the Tanzanian government carries out a coordinated campaign of violence and arrests against the Indigenous Maasai. In Ngorongoro, five Maasai were arrested last week; Over 30 community members have been arrested over the last two months; In neighboring Loliondo, thousands
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Oct 15
New tool reveals siege on Indigenous lands in Bolivia
Published: October 15th, 2026 Author: Nelfi Fernández Reyes In the Los Ángeles community within the Monte Verde territory in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department, the Indigenous Chiquitano people confront and evict the invaders. Image by Edy Yobanny Velasco. Key Points: Nine out of every 10 hectares (22 of every 25 acres) of forest lost in Amazonian Indigenous territories in Bolivia were cleared illegally, new data analysis suggests. Between 2003 and 2023, more than 186,500 hectar
Peoples Tribunal condemns Canada on Indigenous Peoples
Final report released to coincide with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Pierre Saint-Arnaud · The Canadian Press · The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal judges, from left to right, Seanna Howard, Frances Webber and Valmaine Toki give preliminary conclusions following a week of hearings in Montreal in May. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press) Canada is failing to meet international legal obligations by refusing to hold thorough investigations into the crimes committed in
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Sahrawi hunger strike Protests Moroccan camp destruction
Relatives of Sahrawi human rights defender Naâma Asfari have alerted that he and eight other detained activists have renewed their hunger strike on 23 September 2026. By International Service For Human Rights September 30, 2026 Naama Asfari © Antony Jean Naâma Asfari’s family also reported that, during a phone call on 29 September, he confirmed to them that he had been transferred to a Marrakesh prison and that he was continuing the hunger strike he has been waging alongside
Peru faces human rights court over Indigenous protections
Peru faces human rights court over protections for isolated Indigenous Peoples By Steven Grattan (AP) September 25, 2026 Peru faces a regional human rights court over allegations it failed to protect isolated Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from logging and other activities Credit: ABC News PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Peru faced the final day of a landmark hearing before a regional human rights court Friday over allegations that it failed to protect I
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Sep 29
Eviction ordered for Garifuna community in Honduras
By Berta Camprubí Pàmies September 19, 2026 The communities of the indigenous Garifuna people announce a massive mobilization towards Cayos Cochinos in response to the presence of 200 police officers while Supervivientes (Survivors) changes the filming location. International mission to investigate violations of the rights of Garifuna peoples in Honduras. Credit: Berta Camprubí Pàmies The spectators who, this Thursday, were enjoying the morbid curiosity and excitement of the
El Salto Diario
Sep 29
Bolivian indigenous communities protest illegal mining
Erbol September 18, 2026 Dredges operating in the Madre de Dios River, territory of TIM II. Photo: CEJIS. The lack of a resolution to the preventive environmental action presented by the Multiethnic Indigenous Territory TIM II and the Tacana, Kabineña and Ese Ejja captaincies in the face of mining pollution led the Central Indigenous of the Original Peoples of the Amazon of Pando (CIPOAP) to declare a state of emergency and give a deadline until September 30 for mining operat
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Closure in families as Residential Girls are reburied
Peace and closure among families as girls who died at residential school are reburied Natalie Pressman July 23, 2026 Alice and Rosanna Drygeese will be buried in Yellowknife, N.W.T., next to their father Mary Jane Drygeese and her great-granddaughter. Drygeese's two sisters are coming home to Yellowknife decades after they died at residential school in Fort Resolution. (Submitted by Berna Ross) In some of his final words, Berna Ross’s grandfather spoke of how nice it would be
CBS News
Aug 29
UN Urges Tanzania To Stop Maasai Evictions
By David Herbling August 28, 2026 Maasai herders in Tanzania. Photographer: Rob Taggart/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The United Nations called on Tanzania to immediately halt evictions of Maasai families from ancestral lands to make way for tourism developments. Maasai herders are being forced out of homes bordering the Serengeti National Park without adequate and meaningful consultation, according to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. “Restrictions
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