Miss Kayapó: subverting indigenous culture?
Film-makers from the Kayapó indigneous community in the Brazilian Amazon are beginning to film many aspects of their culture, including the participation of Kayapó girls in beauty contests.
Help save the Awá Indians
Survival International is launching a campaign today (25 April 2012) to save the Awá – one of Brazil's two remaining tribes of nomadic hunter gatherers. They are the world's most threatened indigenous tribe.
Mayan people sue Canadian company
Lawsuits against Canadian company HudBay Minerals Inc. over human rights abuse in Guatemala
The voices that Dilma ignores
Eliane Brum, the influential Brazilian journalist, says that Brazil's president is not listening to women in the Amazon.
PARAGUAY: UNLEASHING YOUNG GIRLS’ POTENTIAL.
LAB's Claudia Pompa reports on how the Centro Educativo Mbaracayu (CEM), located in the Mbaracayi Forest Biosphere Reserve in north-east Paraguay, educates and trains girls from rural communities to become 'rural and environmental entrepreneurs'.
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza
Brazil: the Carbon Credit Bonanza. Celestial Green Ventures, a carbon trading company based in Ireland, has been quietly signing contracts with a series of indigenous groups in the Amazon.
Murió La Chapis, mujer comprometida siempre con las comunidades indígenas
Mexico mourns the death of a veteran indigenous activist. In Spanish.
Bolivia: Nothing new in TIPNIS road
Way back in the 18th century, plans were afoot to build a road through the lands occupied by the Yuracares indigenous group, which is just the route to be taken by today's controversial TIPNIS road.
Native Peruvians See Loopholes in Prior Consultation Law
In Peru, indigenous people question a law that is supposed to benefit them.
Santiago Xanica: A Zapotec Village’s Fight for Autonomy in Mexico
The Zapotec indigenous people continue their struggle to have their rights respected.