By: Jade Begay
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: CommonDreams
Cannon Ball, North Dakota - Women of the Standing Rock Sioux people and Indigenous women allies from across North America (Turtle Island) stand on the front-line of ongoing actions to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect land, water, community, sacred sites and lifeways.
By: Helen Tugendhat, Forest Peoples Programme
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Brettonwoods Project
Date: 27 September 2016
Source: National Indigenous Time
There were continuing and relentless attempts to undermine native title in WA’s Kimberley region, a new Oxfam global report pushing for the land rights of Indigenous peoples across the world has found.
The Custodians of our Land, Defenders of our Future report highlights a global land rush forcing millions of Indigenous people from their homelands.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires raging in northeast Brazil are forcing indigenous people out of their traditional territories and threatening uncontacted tribes, an indigenous leader said on Wednesday.
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
By: Bryan Thomas
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Diplomaticourier
An Emerging Philippine Case Study
Throughout human history, the contact between developed economies and indigenous people in undeveloped areas has created tension, and often tragedy. Today the challenge of creating a positive connection between developing and advanced orders remains a pressing, if elusive goal.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries will be unable to meet their climate change pledges unless they secure land rights for people living in the world's tropical forests, indigenous leaders told an international conference of regional governors meeting in Mexico.
By: Helen Davidson
Date: August 24th 2016
Source: The Guardian
