Indigenous peoples

“It is not healthy for Canadian democracy to have law enforcement agencies get in the way of journalistic work. Their job is to allow journalists access and get out of the way of independent newsgathering, a process necessary for a…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples warned Peru that the Forestry Law encourages territorial dispossession and logging on indigenous lands, due to recent modifications made to this legal framework. The Special Rapporteur, José Francisco Calí Tzay,…

“Walking and defending life” is the slogan of the Trawn Itinerant that will travel along the Chubut River, from the Andean source to the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean between 1 and 10 February. The Mapuche Tehuelche people of Patagonia-Wall…

Due to the “potential impacts” on the environment, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom have expressed their views on the amendments to the Peruvian Forestry and Wildlife Law, enacted by the Peruvian Congress last week. The joint declaration, in which…

Despite grotesque judicial political opposition, Bernardo Arévalo, son of the “revolutionary” ex-president Juan José Arévalo, assumed the presidency of Guatemala 70 years after the decapitation of the “National Revolution” that his father had undertaken. Paradoxically, Arévalo’s government is promoted and…

Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob, has expressed deep concern over Germany’s recent decision to reject an indictment before the International Court of Justice, which accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.  This comes after German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit…

The Berber New Year (Yennayer) is celebrated by the «Amazigh people» in a spirit of joy and sharing in different regions of North Africa but also in the Canary Islands of the European continent and in sub-Saharan countries which remain…

Leonard Peltier, a native american, member of the American Indian movement, accused in 1975 of having killed two FBI agents, was condemned to two life sentences without any proof. Since then, even the judges themselves have asked for him to…

The Mapuche people need to live in their territory to exist. This is how it is for the Lof Lafken Winkul Mapu. However, and despite being an enshrined right, according to National Parks, judges and prosecutors functional to economic power,…

Ecuador closes 2023 in an unprecedented economic, institutional, and psychosocial crisis, governed by economic elites under a catastrophic neoliberal model and surrounded by drug trafficking. It was the country’s “most violent year in history”, with more than 7,500 violent deaths,…