Ottawa is betting billions on Indigenous ownership of major projects, but critics say rushing consent could backfire — here's ...

The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Archbishop Christophe El Kassis, insists on the need for the rights ...

Beyond their shared experiences of oppression and Islamist colonial occupation, the speakers also expressed concern about ...

Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the ...

Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are taking their fight against illegal mining, drug trafficking and deforestation ...

Around 476 million people identify or are identified as belonging to Indigenous peoples, representing approximately five percent of the global population. Indigenous languages, identities, forms of ...

What happens when the right to love who you want becomes an act of resistance? Peruvian filmmaker Sami Hawka is developing a ...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Peru faced the final day of a landmark hearing before a regional human rights court Friday over allegations that it failed to protect Indigenous peoples living in isolation in ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights in a landmark case that weighed the constitutionality of establishing a time limit for making claims to ancestral territory. Nine of the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indigenous peoples are effective custodians of biodiversity, lands, and seas, while sustaining distinct cultural, social and economic values of ...

(São Paulo) – Brazil should not impose an arbitrary cutoff date that curtails the land rights of Indigenous peoples, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Solicitor General Jorge Messias. His ...