Papua New Guinea leader vows tough response after fighting kills dozens
Sydney, Australia Reuters Papua New Guinea will give arrest powers to its military amid an eruption of tribal violence in remote highlands that saw at least 26 men killed in an ambush, Prime Minister James Marape said late on Monday. Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner David Manning is travelling to the scene of the fighting […]
Run, rebuild, repeat: Floods eat away at India’s Indigenous land
MOUSHUMI BASU, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the Mising tribe is bearing the brunt of changing weather patterns in India’s Assam state…
Brazil’s Indigenous protest ahead of landmark ruling over ancestral lands
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Hundreds of Indigenous people danced and chanted outside Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to urge the justices not to rule in favour of a cut-off date of 1988 for their land claims, a proposal backed by the farming sector. The protest has drawn an unprecedented 6,000 Indigenous people from 176 tribes to camp […]
Honey-gathering tribe protest against eviction from Indian tiger reserve
Thomson Reuters Foundation A group of Indigenous people – known for gathering honey – are protesting against their eviction from an Indian tiger reserve, a flashpoint in an ongoing legal battle that has pitted wildlife conservationists against land rights groups across the country. The Jenu Kuruba tribe, which traditionally gathers honey and other forest produce, […]
Ecuador’s Amazon tribes turn to tech to track COVID-19 cases
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Ecuador’s Indigenous groups in the Amazon have launched an information dashboard to monitor the coronavirus and identify contagion hotspots as the disease spreads through the rainforest and threatens ancient cultures, a leading rights group said on Tuesday. The dashboard, a collection of charts that aggregates coronavirus data, shows COVID-19 infection and […]
POSTCARDS: SOUTH AMERICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LOCK DOWN AS CORONAVIRUS TAKES HOLD
ANASTASIA MOLONEY and FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Mapping the missing – cartographer plots disappeared native women
Seattle, USThomson Reuters Foundation Ashley Loring Heavyrunner disappeared from the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in June, 2017, one of thousands of Indigenous women recorded missing in the United States and Canada in recent decades. For professional cartographer Annita Lucchesi, a descendant of the Cheyenne Tribe, the loss was personal – Heavyrunner was her student at […]
Indigenous people fighting for land rights
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up more than half of all land globally, but they legally own just 10 per cent. The right of indigenous people to land and territories is protected by international legal conventions including the United Nations’ Declaration […]