Criminalization of Indigenous Land Defenders on the Rise, Says UN Report – Mother Jones
“This is what brings fear” to their communities and thwarts “their right to self-determination.”
Source: motherjones.com
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UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders
When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, the Tanzanian government has systematically attacked Maasai communities, imprisoning Maasai leaders and land defenders on trumped-up charges, confiscating livestock, using lethal violence, and claiming that the Maasai’s pastoralist lifestyle is causing environmental […]
Source: mongabay.com
UN puts spotlight on attacks against Indigenous land defenders
Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?
New Zealand Agua Zarca Brandi Morin Fergus Mackay Advisor To Indigenous Peoples Rights International Global Indigenous Affairs Desk
Source: grist.org
'For us, the Amazon isn't a cause, it's our home': the riverside communities stranded by the climate crisis | Global development
The historic drought in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle and put at risk the livelihoods of remote Indigenous and riverside communities
Source: theguardian.com
Tibú, the Colombian town with the most coca in the world, but no judge or mayor
Armed groups operating outside the law have killed all the authorities or sent them into exile. Local residents live in a permanent state of fear due to rampant violence
Source: elpais.com
Disputed history
A CBC investigation discovered that some of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s claims about her Cree ancestry, the community where she grew up and her academic accomplishments are inconsistent with publicly available documents.
Source: cbc.ca
Nearly two-thirds of Canadians 15 and up report gambling, data shows
Almost two-thirds of Canadians aged 15 and up reported gambling last year and there are higher rates of gambling addiction among Indigenous communities, data from Statistics Canada indicates.
Robert Williams Griffin Busenius Indigenous Bar Association Canadian Consortium For Gambling Research Canadian Community Health Survey Alberta Gambling Research Institute
Source: cbc.ca
Law Society of Ontario awards honorary degrees to eight legal professionals
Honorary degree recipients include Supreme Court of Canada Justice, three Ontario judges
Source: lawtimesnews.com
B.C.'s first female Indigenous provincial judge to be honoured at TRU fall convocation
Marion Buller will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws at the online convocation ceremony on Oct. 8
Marion Buller Mistawasis Nehiyawak Cree Indigenous Bar Association Indigenous Family Court Bc First Nations Court University Of Victoria
Source: kamloopsthisweek.com
'Legacy horrific' but Ontario trucker's retrial more sensitive to victim: lawyers
Friends of Cindy Gladue, Lisa Weber,(left) Brandy Poorman (middle) and Kari Thomason (right) talk to the media after Bradley Barton was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Gladue in an Edmonton hotel room nearly a decade ago. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia Article content EDMONTON — Lawyers say the retrial of a man to be sentenced next week for killing a woman in his hotel room 10 years ago is an example of how cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls sh...
Source: ottawacitizen.com