Climate Change: follow the Alternative Summit
Peru-based Servindi provides a valuable service to follow the Peoples' Summit.
Chevron Oil: Corporate Rights or Human Rights?
The oil giant is using SLAPP litigation to stifle human rights advocates and, in Ecuador, to stall compensation claims for environmental damage caused by its operations in the Amazon.
Kaiowcide
Antonio Ioris, director of the Indigenous Brazil Violated project, in parternship with LAB, has written a policy brief on the ongoing genocide of Brazil's Guarani-Kaiowa people.
BOLIVIA: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND THE MINERS’ CONFLICTS
The mobilisations of the Huanuni miners and others have helped form government policy
Bolivia’s cultural two-step
From Bolivia Nick Caistor asks if a new law will make it easier for indigenous communities to live alongside each other.
Colombia: land restitution without security
Afro-Colombian communities return to their land but serious concerns about their future remain.
Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon
In January, a wave of outrage swept Brazil after photos and footage of sick and starving Yanomami were made public. Indigenous federal deputy is trying to speed up the vote of a new bill that establishes new rules for the gold trade in Brazil.
No Dialogue in Mapuche Conflict in Chile
Daniela Estrada discusses the political motivations behind the Mapuche hunger strikers.
Brazil — indians harness the wind
While Brazil’s Government tends to favour a one-size-fits-all approach to energy provision, an indigenous group in the far north has come up with its own more sustainable solution.
Brazil: 2015 a bad year for rural communities
The Pastoral Land Commission's 2015 report paints a grim picture of the challenges facing peasants and indigenous people.