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.”
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“This is what brings fear” to their communities and thwarts “their right to self-determination.”
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 […]
Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?
PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - Flooding collapsed a gold mine in southern Venezuela, killing at least 12 miners, local authorities said on Sunday, adding that the victims' bodies were returned to their families. The Talavera mine, located in E...
Local authorities said that the killed miners were operating in a site that had been shut down a long time ago.