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By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo. Special to ICT. Reprinted with permission from ITC. Around the world: Land activist wins Australian award, Canada’s

Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending Nov. 6, 2022

Community-based groups in Honduras have expressed optimism that a new timber export agreement with the European Union will help curb illegal logging and other illicit activities impacting the country’s forests and forest communities. Nearly a decade in the making, the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (VPA-FLEGT) took effect Sept. 1, […]

Women from the Campo del Cielo community upload photographs of the Pilcomayo River and share them with each other and experts to monitor flooding. Photo by Nanum Centers. The Pilcomayo River frequently floods, creating a reoccurring disaster of lost lives and property for the rural communities of South America’s Gran Chaco region. Unlike most rivers, during the rainy season up to a third of the Pilcomayo’s volume is sediment carried in the water, and its path is unpredictable. When the muddy river floods its banks, it deposits that sediment in huge mounds of mud, at times burying entire h...

Honduras investigates police in case of murdered student February 10, 2021 at 3:32 pm TEGUCIGALPA, Hondruas (AP) — Relatives buried the body Wednesday of a 26-year-old Honduran nursing student who died in a police cell hours after she was arrested for violating the pandemic curfew. The National Police initially suggested it had been a suicide, but authorities are now investigating it as a murder. Keyla Patricia Martínez Rodríguez, a resident of the capital, had traveled to the western Honduras city of La Esperanza with a doctor friend to visit relatives. On Saturday ni...