Human Rights Watch

Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a Matter of Human Rights

When laws are designed fairly, in line with international human rights standards and applied consistently, they can be an important tool for upholding justice and equality. But without safeguards, ...

Amnesty International concerned Canada is 'rolling back' support for Indigenous rights

Amnesty International is concerned Canada is backsliding on Indigenous rights under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The organization warns in its annual global human rights report that new laws passed ...
Reuters

Comment: Why Indigenous Peoples' rights must be at the heart of the transition to renewables

December 16 - The energy transition towards renewable energy is moving fast, but in many cases, companies are making a fatal mistake: not respecting human rights. This is particularly notable with ...
Human Rights Watch

Brazil: Reject Harmful Bill on Indigenous Rights

(São Paulo) – Brazil’s Congress should reject a draft bill that would impose an arbitrary cutoff date curtailing the right of Indigenous peoples to their traditional land. Brazil’s lower house is ...

Indigenous march in Grand Rapids spotlights human rights crisis

Activists gathered Tuesday to shine a light on the crisis of murdered and missing indigenous people.
Jurist

UN committee warns systemic discrimination against Indigenous children in Australia youth justice system

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) warned in a statement issued Tuesday that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia continue to face systemic ...
Grist

Indigenous Maasai ask the United Nations to intervene on human rights abuses

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. In Tanzania, the ...
FoodNavigator

From deforestation to human rights: EU urged to put indigenous perspective at centre of EU policy

Indigenous rights must be ‘at the centre’ of new EU policies looking to stamp out environmental and human rights violations from food supply chains, argues indigenous advocate Edson Krenak from NGO ...
Oregonian

Commentary: Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights

As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past civilizations, with ...

‘Divide-and-conquer’: Indigenous groups split over land rights

The Minns Labor government’s plan to restrict Aboriginal land claims in NSW has split the state’s alliance of 121 land councils as one breakaway faction opts to negotiate a compromise.
PBS

Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Rights in Conservation

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories in the fields of nature and ...