Brazil: Hivos, Greenpeace and COICA Launch Programme to Combat Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
23 February 2017
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Caucasus "Land grab" feared in remote UNESCO heritage site
20 February 2017
For the people of Upper Svaneti, a remote sliver of land nestled high in the gorges of Georgia, the last words uttered by the dying are portents of the future.
And the future looks bleak.
Residents say the same ominous rattle has echoed over so many of its death beds this past year - "The Svans are in danger, be careful" - that villagers are now braced for battle.
The source of their deep unease - electricity.
2017-2018 International Land Coalition (ILC) Membership Expansion
15 February 2017
Deadline: 30th June 2017
Who can apply?
Given the extraordinary growth of the coalition in previous years, this opening will give priority to civil society and inter-governmental organisations:
- With specific political and technical expertise to realise people centred land governance of benefit to the network;
Colombia: Yet Another Indigenous Child Dies of Hunger as Leaders Clamor for Rights
08 February 2017
Date: 6 February 2017
Source: Telesur
Up to 15,000 children in La Guajira suffer chronic malnutrition today in the face of a lack of basic necessities.
Bolivia’s Disappearing Lake
03 February 2017
By: Linda Farthing
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Earth Island Journal
As Lake Poopó vanishes, depleted by water diversions and warming temperatures, it leaves behind an uncertain future for Indigenous Urus
"Buen Vivir" for Whom?
02 February 2017
By: Moira Birss
Date: 26 January 2017
Source: Nacla
From attempts to close Ecuador’s leading environmental rights NGO to megaprojects on indigenous lands, Rafael Correa’s government continues to criminalize and threaten environmental activists and indigenous people.
The Shuar people fighting on two fronts in the Amazon
01 February 2017
By: Inti Cartuche Vacacela
Date: 1 February 2017
Source: Open Democracy
Shuar means the people. Today, this indigenous people living in present-day Ecuador and Peru, are continuing their fight against the colonial state and the extractivist capitalism.
Indigenous federation sues Peru over new national park
01 February 2017
By: David Hill
Date: 31 Januarty 2017
Source: The Guardian
Oil and gas concession overlaps 1.3m hectare “protected area” inhabited by indigenous peoples in “isolation”
Job opportunity: IWGIA seeks new Executive Director
31 January 2017
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) is seeking an Executive Director to take up appointment as soon as possible, and invites applications from suitably qualified candidates.
Measures Are Proposed to Address Violence in Mapuche Land in Chile
27 January 2017
By: Orlando Milesi
Date: 26 Janaury 2017
Source: Inter Press Service
The lands where the Mapuche indigenous people live in southern Chile are caught up in a spiral of violence, which a presidential commission is setting out to stop with 50 proposals, such as the constitutional recognition of indigenous people and their representation in parliament, in a first shift in the government´s treatment of native peoples.