Brazil intercepts illegal flight over Indigenous land invaded by gold miners
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Air Force said on Tuesday it fired warning shots at a plane and forced it to land for violating a no-fly ban over the Yanomami Indigenous reservation where illegal gold miners have been returning despite federal efforts to keep them away. Two bursts of machine gun fire were fired during […]
Who is Indigenous? Millions may be denied land in India’s Assam over definition
Guwahati, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Millions of migrants and tribal people in India’s north-eastern Assam state could be denied land because of a new definition of the term “Indigenous”, land and human rights experts said. Assam has a long-simmering movement against immigrants and its 2019 land policy, aimed at overhauling a three-decade old land law, seeks […]