In this July 20, 2015 file photo, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye talks with community members during a public meeting in Shiprock, N.M. |(Jon Austria/The Daily Times/AP
Indigenous Rights

Navajo Nation Takes on Trump Plan to “Reorganize” Native Lands

“Tribal Nations are governments,” … “We are political entities. We are not a race in the eyes of the federal government nor have we been throughout history.”

by Mark Maxey

Israel Destroys the Homes and History of Palestine’s Indigenous Bedouin

Because the Naqab is a largely fertile desert where agriculture and animal husbandry were practiced by the indigenous Bedouin community for centuries, from 1948 the State of Israel, in settler-colonial fashion, has been engaged in taking the land and the resources while getting rid of the indigenous communities on it.

Israel Destroys the Homes and History of Palestine’s Indigenous Bedouin

BIR-AS-SABA’, NAQAB (Analysis) -- The Naqab region is assumed to be an integral part of the apartheid state of Israel. However, like all other parts of historic Palestine, it was taken by force and occupied since 1948, when the Zionist state was established. For the last seven decades its indigenous people, the Palestinian

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Miko Peled

Miko Peled

Miko Peled is an author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. He is the author of "The General's Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine," and "Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five."

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Ecuador Quietly Grants Transnational Corporations Rights To Protected Forests and Indigenous Land

The Ecuadorean government has quietly granted mining concessions to over 4.25 million acres of forest reserves and indigenous territories to transnational corporations in closed-door deals without public knowledge or consent.

Ecuador Quietly Grants Transnational Corporations Rights To Protected Forests and Indigenous Land

Ecuador (Editorial) -- The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. Ecuador has more orchid and hummingbird species than Brazil, which is 32 times larger, and more diversity than the entire USA. In the last year,

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John Seed

John Seed

John Seed is founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment and is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and occasional Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.

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63 Dead In Brazil Land Killings As Political Crisis Continues

63 people have been killed in conflicts of resources in rural areas this year, sparking concerns from human rights groups.

63 Dead In Brazil Land Killings As Political Crisis Continues

This year’s sharp rise in violent conflicts over land and resources in Brazil further intensified over the past three months, new figures show. The research, shared with Unearthed by Brazilian human rights group Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT), shows that more people were killed in

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UN: Brazil Backsliding On Indigenous Rights, Environmental Protection

Under the embattled President Temer, “the rights of indigenous peoples and environmental rights are under attack in Brazil.”

UN: Brazil Backsliding On Indigenous Rights, Environmental Protection

A United Nations human rights expert has warned that Brazil is going through a “dangerous time”, as the country experiences political turmoil putting indigenous rights and environmental protection at risk. John Knox, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, told Energydesk that proposals under consideration in the country’s

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