While from different generations, both Raoni, an 85 years old Caiapó leader and Davi Kopenawa a leader from Ianomâmis community, have opposed the invasion of their traditional land by extraction companies. Both have participated in international campaigns which have allowed them to obtain the demarcation of their land and to prevent genocide of their people. While the struggle for their...
While from different generations, both Raoni, an 85 years old Caiapó leader and Davi Kopenawa a leader from Ianomâmis community, have opposed the invasion of their traditional land by extraction...
Expelled from their territories as an attempt of the Brazilian State to gain lands for the agroindustry, the members of the Guaraní-Kaiowá indigenous community fight today to recover their...
Documentary Screening at Atelier Marcel Hastir (Rue du Commerce 51, 1000 Brussels) Maya in Action - Narratives of resilience in Guatemala/Soigner nos droits - La voie des femmes mayas 10 April 2018 |...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) ordered Brazil to pay 1 million dollars to the Xukuru community for violating their right to collective property. This sum constitutes reparation for the...
On the 30th May – 1st June, the University College Roosevelt of Utrecht University will hold a two day conference titled: ‘Territories in dispute: epistemologies, resistances, spiritualities...
As the Aty Guasu, the assembly of the Guaraní-Kaiwá communities of Brazil, denounces the government’s policies aiming to separate infants from their indigenous families, voices are...
Brazilian Federal Justice ordered the eviction of indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá from their traditional communities Pindoroky, Nhamõe Guavyray and Guapoy Guasu, in the state of Mato Grosso do...
Today, the term ‘development’ is generally associated with political promises of economic growth and prosperity and the full integration of so-called developing countries into the global community....
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