Indigenous leaders face criminal charges for setting up anti-mining barricades in the Philippines
More than 30 cases have been filed against Indigenous leaders, environmentalists, and lawyers for establishing anti-mining barricades in Nueva Vizcaya, a province in the northern part...
What one group of Afghan women and their supporters make of international engagement with the Taliban
Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, Afghan women and their supporters gathered last week on Amsterdam’s Dam Square to protest...
Poisoned waters: Indigenous communities fight to protect Thailand’s Kok River
Hundreds of villagers, Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders, monks, and civil society activists completed a six-day Peace Walk in July along northern Thailand’s Kok River...
Climate Breakdown is here: Why won’t governments act?
Will the succession of heatwaves across Europe and the UK compel governments of all complexions to take climate breakdown more seriously? While much of...
The everyday guardians: Rana Tharu women’s implicit roles in Nepal
In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, establishing an important framework for advancing and protecting the...