Indigenous peoples

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,…

Last December 1st, the intercultural facilitators of the Chilean Health System, Yanet, Candelaria, Pamela and Daniela; Professors of the Nursing School of the University of Los Lagos, Sandra Sandoval Barrientos, Ma. Bernardita Pilquinao Pilquinao, Betty Antiñirre Mansilla, Carlos Fernández Silva,…

This coming 10th of December, at 11:00 am. Argentina, the Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas will hold its IV Symposium. There will be simultaneous translation in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Five speakers will present the African cultures of…

A personal narrative by Reza Siar, a member of the Hazaras, one of Afganistan’s marginalized minority groups, who fled after the US troops left and the Taliban took over.   “Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are their last days;…

A personal narrative by Reza Siar, a member of the Hasaras, one of Afghanistan’s marginalized minority goups, who fled after the US troops left and the Taliban took over.   Early morning, before the sun rose from behind the mountain…

by Mariel Lagman Tay-eo, Pinky Baysic Pascaden, and Genevieve Balance Kupang (editor), Baguio City, Philippines The month of October is celebrated as Indigenous Peoples Month. This observance is spearheaded by various government agencies, including the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples…

Zapotecs create their own television signal and content in Santa María Yaviche, in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca; while in the north-eastern Sierra of Puebla, in the Náhuatl community of Cuetzalan, they make possible a virtual, social and community mobile…

15 years ago for the first time, I was interested in investigating the life of Dalits of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Although the city gets neat and clean and tidy by this community, very few city dwellers have a broad and…

In times of elections, advances of right-wing options and democracies in crisis, indigenous peoples propose other models of life: without exploiting nature, with solidarity, complementarity and reciprocity. Overcoming genocide, structural racism, extractive governments and millenarian peoples who mark out paths.…