By Manuela Picq Originally published on Intercontinental Cry In a landmark victory for indigenous land rights in Brazil, the National Foundation for the Indian (FUNAI) has decided to proceed with the official demarcation and protection of the Munduruku Peoples...
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Indonesia’s indigenous wage two-pronged battle for legal recognition
Corey Rogers at Mongabay.com recently published an article on efforts by indigenous groups in Indonesia who are turning to local governments for recognition of their rights. Belying this huge spatial and demographic footprint, and despite explicit constitutional...
Protests For #JusticeForBertaCaceres In Congressional Offices On Capitol Hill In Washington, DC
Via SOA Watch On Monday, April 18, the final day of SOA Watch's Spring Days of Action, human rights activists disrupted the Congressional offices of three U.S. House Representatives who enthusiastically supported the 2009 military coup in Honduras (Ileana...
Bangkukuk: The Indigenous Rama Speak Out Against Nicaragua’s Interoceanic Grand Canal
Bangkukuk - Documentary Film (Official Trailer 2016) from Art of Solidarity on Vimeo. Originally Published at IntercontinentalCry.org The Rama people have lived on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua for thousands of years, long before the existence of the nation state....
Women, Communities say NO to the Expansion of Oil Palm Plantations and Industrial Palm Oil
Via World Rainforest Movement: Each year on 17 April, peasants and food sovereignty advocates commemorate the International day of peasant struggle. Twenty years have passed since the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre on 17 April 1996, when military police killed 19...
Clinton Claims on Honduran Coup ‘Full of Falsehoods’
In her recent interview with the New York Daily News, Hillary Clinton was asked about policies she was "directly involved in, the coup in Honduras. As you know in 2009, the military overthrew President Zelaya. There was a period there where the OAS [Organization of...
Ngäbe Communities Facing Evictions Call for International Solidarity
By Jennifer Kennedy Originally Published by IntercontinentalCry.org Ngäbe communities in western Panama are calling for support from the international community after officials from the Honduran-owned energy company, GENISA, warn that they will soon be evicted from...
Justice for the Victims of State Violence in Kidapawan, North Cotabato!
IBON International condemns in the strongest terms the violent repression in Kidapawan undertaken by the Philippine National Police (PNP) in response to the occupation by 6,000 unarmed peasants and Lumad tribe-members of the Kidapawan highway to demand food aid and...
Indigenous Peoples Contaminated by Mercury from Illegal Gold Mining
Via PLANT Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples: Research recently carried out by the Brazilian Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) in 19 Yanomani and Ye'wana villages, has revealed that up to...
EL NIÑO VICTIMS GET BULLETS RATHER THAN SEEDS
From the Coalition Against Land Grabbing: Dear Friends and Supporters, By now, many of us here in the Philippines have already received this tragic news and feel completely demoralized for the killing of three people [two non-indigenous farmers and a member of the...