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?
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