Indigenous Rights

Indigenous Storytelling in the Limelight

By Francesca Dziadek
In recent years, the Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, has established a European hub for indigenous voices across a number of platforms, including its NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema series and Storytelling-Slams in which indigenous storytelling artists share their stories before opening the floor to contributions from the audience.

Analysis: Economic Growth Is Not Enough

By Jessica Faieta
Recent new data show a worrying picture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Income poverty reduction has stagnated and the number of poor has risen — for the first time in a decade — according to recent figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indigenous Food Systems Should Be on the Development Menu

By Valentina Gasbarri
Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality.

Negev Bedouin Resist Israeli Demolitions “To Show We Exist”

By Silvia Boarini
Lehavim Junction in the northern Negev in Israel has been the backdrop to protests against home demolitions in Bedouin localities for the past four and half years.

Indigenous Peoples – Architects of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Valentina Gasbarri
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” – an ancient Indian saying that encapsulates the essence of sustainability as seen by the world’s indigenous people.

Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks

By Denise M. Fontanilla and Chris Wright
Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.

Getting Bang for the Buck on New Development Goals

By Bjorn Lomborg
Right now, the United Nations is negotiating one of the world’s potentially most powerful policy documents. It can influence trillions of dollars, pull hundreds of millions out of poverty and hunger, reduce violence and improve education — essentially make the world a better place. But much depends on this being done well.

People’s Tribunal Hopes Verdict on Mining Abuses Gains Traction

By Leila Lemghalef
A recent case study on Canadian mining abuses in Latin America has woven one more thread of justice into the tapestry of international law.

Missing Students Case Also Highlights Racism in Mexico

By Emilio Godoy
The mother tongue of Celso García, a 51-year-old indigenous Mexican, is Mixteca. As a boy, García, the father of one of the 43 students forcibly disappeared four months ago, had to learn Spanish to make his way in mainstream society in this country where most people are of mixed-race heritage.

Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine

By Pavol Stracansky
With international organisations warning that East Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as its health system collapses, marginalised groups are among those facing the greatest struggle to access even basic health care in the war-torn region.

Aboriginal Businesses Stimulate Positive Change in Australia

By Neena Bhandari
Roy Roger Gibson, an indigenous Kuku Yalanji elder, would watch thousands of tourists and vehicles trampling his pristine land while working on the sugarcane fields in Far North Queensland. His people were suffering and their culture was being eroded. The native wildlife was disappearing. He dreamt of turning this around.

OPINION: A New Era of Hemispheric Cooperation Is Possible

By Luis Almagro
Two decades after the first Summit of the Americas, a lot has changed in the continent and it has been for the good. Today, a renewed hemispheric dialogue without exclusions is possible.

Time to Recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution

By Neena Bhandari
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders comprise 2.5 per cent (some 548,370) of Australia’s 24-million strong population, but they are not recognised by the Constitution.

Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes

By Fabíola Ortiz
In this town in Peru’s highlands over 3,000 metres above sea level, in the mountains surrounding the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the Quechua Indians who have lived here since time immemorial are worried about threats to their potato crops from alterations in rainfall patterns and temperatures.

Seeking Closure, Bougainville Confronts Ghosts of Civil War

By Catherine Wilson
Thirteen years after the peace agreement which ended a decade-long civil war in Bougainville, an autonomous island region of 300,000 people located east of the Papua New Guinean (PNG) mainland in the southwest Pacific Islands, trauma and grief continue to affect families and communities where the fate of the many missing remains unresolved.

Changes to World Bank Safeguards Risk “Race to the Bottom”, U.N. Experts Warn

By Carey L. Biron
An unprecedented number of United Nations special rapporteurs and independent experts are raising pointed concerns over the World Bank’s ongoing review of its pioneering environmental and social safeguards, particularly around the role that human rights will play in these revamped policies.

REDD and the Green Economy Continue to Undermine Rights

By Jeff Conant
Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha is a rubber-tapper and union organiser from the state of Acre in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with a lifelong love of the forest from which she earns her livelihood – and she is deeply confounded by what her government and policymakers around the world call “the green economy.”

Aboriginal Knowledge Could Unlock Climate Solutions

By Neena Bhandari
As a child growing up in Far North Queensland, William Clark Enoch would know the crabs were on the bite when certain trees blossomed, but now, at age 51, he is noticing visible changes in his environment such as frequent storms, soil erosion, salinity in fresh water and ocean acidification.

OPINION: The Sad Future of Our Planet

By Roberto Savio
It is now official: the current inter-governmental system is not able to act in the interest of humankind.

OPINION: Climate Change and Inequalities: How Will They Impact Women?

By Susan McDade
Among all the impacts of climate change, from rising sea levels to landslides and flooding, there is one that does not get the attention it deserves: an exacerbation of inequalities, particularly for women.

Mangrove Conservation Paves the Way to a Sustainable Future

By Malini Shankar
When the Asian tsunami washed over several Indian Ocean Rim countries on Boxing Day 2004, it left a trail of destruction in its wake, including a death toll that touched 230,000.
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