On 24 April 2020, The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) - an organization of Indigenous Peoples from the Americas, the Caribbean and the Pacific - organized a webinar focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. Speakers concluded that the pandemic is being used as an excuse for governments to justify abuses of indigenous peoples’s rights, while...
On 24 April 2020, The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) - an organization of Indigenous Peoples from the Americas, the Caribbean and the Pacific - organized a webinar focusing on how COVID-19...
As it becomes more apparent that China is not releasing the true figures behind its own struggle against the coronavirus, the EU has caved under Chinese pressure to alter substantially its report...
Tribal groups in North East India implemented their own customary rituals which are equivalent to a lockdown much before the first positive case was reported. The Galo tribe performed Ali-Ternam, a customary...
The US territory of Guam has recently issued a resolution in support of Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organisation (WHO) and "commending them for their successful response to the COVID-19...
Indonesia is bringing coal mining to West Papua despite an independence movement that has contested Jakarta’s claims to the region’s resources for almost 60 years and faced violent repression....
On 25 April, a group of 19 members of the South Maluku Republic (RMS) were arrested by Indonesian police. The group was arrested during an independence rally when raising the unrecognised republics flag....
A number of US State authorities do not recognise native American populations in their demographic data on the Coronavirus, despite taking into account the Black and Hispanic communities. While not more...
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