Is Guatemala's Mayan Genocide Continuing Today?
Maya Ixil women lead thousands of people marching for democracy in Guatemala City. Sandra Cuffe Source: Truthout Guatemala´s Indigenous Mayan Communities: Displacement, Cultural Destruction, and the Question of Genocide By Laura Rodriguez Martin, Genocide Watch, June 2026 For over four decades, Guatemala´s Mayan Indigenous communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands, first through massacre and scorched-earth warfare, and more recently through mining concessions
Genocide Watch
Jul 8
Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil
June 24, 2026 Aimee Gabay Firefighters from the Chico Mendes Institute work to contain a forest fire and prevent it from reaching Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in Brazil’s northern Goiás state in 2025. Image by AP Photo / Eraldo Peres. In 2025, fires were responsible for a significant spike in forest loss in three territories in Brazil that are home to Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, according to Global Forest Watch data analyzed by Mongabay. Indigeno
Mongabay
Jul 6
China's ethnic unity law puts Australian citizens at risk
The Australian government says it has raised concerns directly with China over the country's new ethnic unity law.
Under a clause in the law, people outside of China can be held legally accountable for undermining "ethnic unity and progress or inciting ethnic separatism".
Peru, Brazil: Extractivism Threatens Indigenous People In Isolation
In Peru and Brazil, Extractivism threatens Indigenous People in isolation: Report. June 05, 2026 Aimee Gabay The Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor from above on the Peruvian side, near the Peru-Brazil border. Image courtesy of ORPIO. Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s highest concentrations of PIACI, are under th
Mongabay
Jun 23
Rodrigo Paz declares State of Emergency in Bolivia
Rodrigo Paz declares a state of emergency in Bolivia "to clear the country's highways" June 20, 2026 By BBC News Mundo* *With information from Cecilia Barría, Ayelén Oliva, and Gerardo Lissardy. “This is not a state of emergency intended to restrict people's lives. It is exactly the opposite,” President Paz said on Saturday. (Photo from June 8). Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images. After stating that he had exhausted “all avenues for dialogue,” Bolivian President Rodrigo
BBC News Mundo
Jun 21
Special Report: Colombian Community Leaders at Risk
By Juliana Girotto Genocide Watch Legislators hold photographs of social leaders who have been killed as Colombia's congress opens its new session ahead of the inauguration of leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro, in Bogota, Colombia July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Nathalia Angarita/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights In 2024, the South American nation of Colombia saw an average of 16 community leaders killed each month, resulting in a total of 186 documented murders in 2024, or 23
Genocide Watch
Apr 26
Escalating Persecution of Montagnards in Vietnam
A Call for International Protection of the Montagnard people
Mexican paramilitary group kills two indigenous people
The Digna Ochoa Human Rights Committee reported that the injured, two of whom were elderly, were taken to hospitals in the region. February 11, 2026 By Fredy Martín Pérez Paramilitary group “Los Autónomos” ambushes and kills two indigenous people in Chiapas; four others are wounded. Photo: Valente Rosas/ EL UNIVERSAL San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas—A paramilitary group operating in the municipality of Tila carried out an ambush this afternoon, killing two Ch'ol people and
El Universal
Feb 18
Colombia's Atrato River Crisis: a Human Rights Emergency
A United Nations letter to Colombia warns that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in the Atrato River basin is causing a grave human rights crisis for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities By Steven Grattan A group of women, part of Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, go by boat to an area destroyed by illegal mining, on the Quito River, the Atrato River’s main tributary, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Va
ABC 1
Oct 22, 2025
'Never again': Indigenous Bolivians Sour on Socialism
A Bolivian Indigenous woman walks past a car with campaign posters of Bolivian presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina © MARTIN...
AFP (Agence France-Press)
Aug 19, 2025
Bolivia: Socialists Lose Support of the Aymara
By Monica Machicao and Lucinda Elliott An Aymara man bangs an empty utensil in a symbol of protest, as the country faces one of its...
Reuters
Aug 11, 2025
Paraguay: A Call to Protect Uncontacted Ayoreo
Deusdedit Ruhangariyo Special to ICT Credit: House of uncontacted Ayoreo, discovered when road was bulldozed through their land. The next...
ICT News
Jul 30, 2025
