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A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

16 Jun 2022 5 minute read

Standing firm against fracking

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

19 Nov 2021 5 minute read

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‘Fortress conservation’ is driving us from our homes

Pranab Doley, an Indigenous activist from the Mising people, condemns the militarization of the...

Fighting on all fronts. Samela, a 23-year-old activist from the Association of the Satere-Mawe Indigenous Women in Manaus, Amazonas in Brazil, co-ordinates the production of protective face masks.RAPHAEL ALVES/IMF/CREATIVE COMMONS

21 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Let the people protect the forests

Want to restore and protect the world's forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny...

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist

16 Feb 2021 3 minute read

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‘Indigenous people respect all species’

An interview with environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.

24 Sep 2020 3 minute read

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Kids locked up

Amy Hall speaks to the campaigners leading the call against childhood incarceration of Aboriginal and...

15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

The fight continues: indigenous groups and their allies blockade government buildings in Victoria, Canada to protest a natural gas pipeline through Wet'suwet'en territory. Zuma Press inc/Alamy

2 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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Temperature check

Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil fuel...

The Ashaninka are an indigenous people living in the State of Acre, Brazil. © Pedro França/MinC

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on the war against indigenous people.

People from the various villages in Baram district demonstrate against the proposed dam. SAMBAN TUGANG

13 Apr 2020 4 minute read

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Saving rivers, saving lives

An epic struggle has been playing out between islanders defending their land, rivers and livelihoods and the Malaysian...

21 May 2019 19 minute read

This article is almost four years old.

The indigenous resistance against Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue...

21 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Catching the cops

Aboriginal people are using a new app to record and report police brutality. Will it help break Australia’s culture of...

14 Jan 2019 5 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Do we fetishize indigenous people?

Working on a documentary about the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies’ prompted Julian Sayarer to examine the West’s obtuse...

30 Nov 2018 6 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

The coerced sterilization of Indigenous women

The shocking eugenicist policies can be seen as attempted cultural genocide, argues Jaipreet Virdi

14 Nov 2018 4 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Independence thwarted, for now, in French Pacific

The non-indigenous people of New Caledonia assumed they would easily win an independence referendum. The results were a...

Herero who survived the genocide after escaping through the Omaheke desert. Photo from the Galerie Bassenge via Wikimedia Commons.

1 Aug 2018 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Namibia’s long fight for justice

Communities that were decimated by Germany’s forgotten genocide are now demanding justice. Gouri Sharma...

22 Jul 2018 3 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?

Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter...

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