Two members of the Indigenous Guard have been shot dead by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) guerrillas in the Nasa Indigenous territory of Toribio in southern Colombia. Manuel Antonio ...

A young Miskitu boy poses for a picture on the porch of a local elder’s home in the Muskitia community of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of many traditional Miskitu settlements active on ‘the frontier’ ...

The culture of conservation Unfortunately, as long as we remain resigned to a culture of conservation that treats human beings as the enemy and that turns a blind eye to violations of human rights, ...

The Kuna people have passed down those traditions, stories, and their language orally, from one generation to the next. So as he puts them on paper, Don Jesús often runs into the challenge of sorting ...

Last Updated on April 10, 2025 Booming economic growth, a reduction in poverty, low unemployment rates, financial stability and a safe haven for business investors. These were all the result of what ...

The case of Copones is a legal battle between owners in practice and owners on paper. On May 25, 2016, a hearing at the Constitutional Court became emblematic of how Indigenous communities are ...

Russia’s cynicism was exposed on July 16, 2014 at the United Nations, where its representative spoke before the United Nations Informal Consultation on the “Outcome Document” draft language being ...

President Rafael Correa’s promise to take back Ecuador’s oil wealth from overseas companies and put Ecuadorians at the forefront of the country has since lost credibility. “As the global price for oil ...

Compounding the situation is the troubling evidence that the medicine at the heart of the Wixárika cosmogony, Lophophora williamsii, peyote, or in their language, Hikuri, is rapidly disappearing. The ...

The global trend of attacks on Indigenous Peoples takes different shapes on different continents. Let’s go through some of it. Latin America: Where the extractive agenda threatens indigenous victories ...

The area is also a vital supply of water. These paramos provide water to 72 communities in Molleturo, freshwater to towns in the southern coast of Ecuador and to the city of Cuenca, the country’s ...

In a show of unity, the warring parties all wore white-collared shirts without ties, as they sat on opposite sides of the brown mahogany tables encircling an artificially bright-green shrubbery ...