“Voice of a people”: Unfazed by danger and power, Guatemalan cardinal keeps up fight for migrants and the poor
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the work of Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini…
‘Slow-motion disaster’: Panama’s Indigenous leave home as sea levels rise
The Guna people of Panama’s sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
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 […]
Ancestral lands: Displaced Ecuador Indigenous group to go home after eight decades
Ecuador’s evicted Indigenous Siekopai community are set to return to their Amazon rainforest home, vowing to keep oil drilling at bay. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil Indigenous group’s crisis persists after 308 deaths in 2023, report says
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Government’s effort to evict illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the northern Amazon has stalled with outsiders increasingly invading the vast territory, Yanomami leaders said on Friday. The Hutukara Yanomami Association released a report on the year since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian […]
Illegal mining: Gold diggers bring fresh wave of suffering to Brazil’s Yanomami
UESLEI MARCELINO, of Reuters, reports on how, a year after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami and vowed zero tolerance for illegal mining, environmental enforcers are warning that Brazil is jeopardising last year’s hard-won progress…
Guatemala’s liberal new leader faces huge obstacles to anti-graft drive
Guatemala City, Guatemala Reuters Guatemala’s new leftist President, Bernardo Arevalo, took office on Monday after a tortuous delay that underlined the uphill struggle he faces to meet high expectations and enact a sweeping anti-graft agenda in opposition-controlled Congress. Arevalo, the Central American country’s most liberal leader in years, powered to victory in August, vowing to […]
Disputed territory: How one river highlights South Africa’s land inequality
From Indigenous rights to environmental protection, Cape Town’s Liesbeek River has become a symbol of land justice in South Africa. KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Brazil’s Lula vetoes bill restricting Indigenous land claims
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country’s powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988. “The president vetoed everything that was unconstitutional and not consistent with our Indigenous peoples policy,” his […]
Australian voters’ divisions, indifference doom Indigenous referendum
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Upbeat polls and big-name endorsements greeted Australia’s referendum campaign for Indigenous reconciliation when it kicked off in earnest just seven months ago, raising hopes for a historic change to the constitution. But by the time votes were counted this weekend in the country’s first referendum in nearly 25 years, the proposal for a […]