With calls to return power to the bases and to mobilize the grassroots in defense of the rights of community access to water resources, Ecuador’s largest and most powerful Indigenous federation has inaugurated its leadership for the next three…
Indigeneity is an unusual way to think about International Relations (IR). Most studies of world politics ignore Indigenous perspectives, which are rarely treated as relevant to…
Logging in the Brazilian Amazon has had a devastating effect on the rainforest and its indigenous people. However, a new operation by the army, air force and military police is designed to save an endangered tribe – by…
Dozens of U.S.-based Indians from the Telangana region of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh gathered in Washington, DC, on Saturday, staging a solidarity demonstration with the “Sakala Janula Samme” – a civil disobedience movement that has swept all…
Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid a national furore over the way opposition to the road has been handled. On Sunday police fired tear gas and rounded up hundreds of…
In December 2010 Australia’s Prime Minister appointed an expert panel to lead the country in a «conversation» about the constitutional recognition of the country’s Indigenous peoples. Such a move is welcome, particularly in light of the historic and contemporary disadvantage…
Cherán and Ostula, Michoacán; and San Luis Acatlán, Guerrero. Indigenous communities in different parts of Mexico are organizing to secure their territory outside of government and all institutions, demanding the right to self-defense of their towns. And it’s not…
A 526km march brings attention to Evo Morales’ hypocritical stance on the environment and indigenous sovereignty. Indigenous Bolivians are marching over 500 km to La Paz to protest against the construction of a highway [AFP] «We can’t understand…
Indigenous leaders Delfin Tenesaca, Jaime Vargas, Pepe Acacho, and Humberto Cholango.During three days in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, hundreds of representatives from several Latin American countries gathered to share experiences and strategies during the Continental Conference in…