Indigenous land rights have taken center stage at negotiations currently underway in Geneva for the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. Karl Burkart, Deputy Director of One Earth, says this is a ...

Students in the Human Rights Study Project at the University of Virginia School of Law spent a week of their winter break in the Ecuadorian Amazon learning about the Indigenous rights movement. The ...

As delegates from around the world gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the United Nations’ 29th annual climate summit, also known as COP29, one of the most contentious debates centers on carbon trading—a ...

The E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration calls attention to the key role of Indigenous peoples to (as well as the challenges they face from) climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation programs. A word ...

Indigenous territories are a crucial bulwark against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new peer-reviewed study shows they also safeguard the health of millions living there. The study, ...

Canada has built a reputation as one of the world’s most progressive nations, and the evidence goes beyond political rhetoric ...

Laws like the Forest Rights Act have been systematically eroded by the very state institutions responsible for implementing ...

While boasting in front of the international community of a commitment to grant 1.4 million hectares of customary forest in ...

Canada is approaching a breaking point in how we discuss Indigenous land claims, reconciliation, and property rights. This is ...

This pandemic threatens the physical, cultural and spiritual survival of our peoples as well as our economic viability as Indigenous Nations and Native communities. The historic and ongoing human ...

An official tasked with presiding over FUNAI, asked the federal police to investigate APIB, Brazil's main coalition of Indigenous organizations, after it criticized the government. He also requested ...