Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Indigenous Peoples

Brazil’s Indigenous tribes

Brazil’s Indigenous tribes camp out in the capital Brasilia to highlight the lack of action by governments to tackle malnutrition amongst Indigenous children, attacks on ..

Published on: 23 April, 2024

World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

This event provides an important platform to reiterate Member States’ commitment to uphold, promote and advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples without compromise.

Published on: 17 April, 2024

Viwa indigenous people

This is the latest in a number of crises since the beginning of the year, as there’s been an increase in violence despite President Gustavo ..

Published on: 3 March, 2024

indigenous people/Brazil

The ruling will decide whether indigenous people must have been living in the territories they claim as theirs before 1988, when the new democratic constitution ..

Published on: 21 September, 2023

Indigenous land claims/Brazil

Those who had been chased at gunpoint out of their territories before 1988 and returned much later, for fear of being killed, will lose their ..

Published on: 30 August, 2023

Mexican indigenous communities

The group — which for years has been hesitant about public announcements — has denounced the rise in violence in Chiapas, and called an international ..

Published on: 8 June, 2023

Brazil’s Supreme Court and the Indigenous land claims

A ruling has been put on hold a few times over the past years. As things stand, two members of the 11-member court have ruled so ..

Published on: 7 June, 2023

Peru is strikingly divided

Racism, poverty and discrimination are at the root of this latest uprising by inhabitants of Peru’s highlands, where much of the country’s gas and mineral ..

Published on: 20 February, 2023

Yonamami people are struggling to survive

President Lula has accused the previous government of President Bolsonaro of driving the Yonamami people to the edge of death by allowing an estimated 25,000 ..

Published on: 15 February, 2023

Bangladesh and the indigenous people

Almost 3-million people claim indigenous status – including communities that fought security forces for years in the Chittagong Hill region.

Published on: 10 August, 2022

International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples

The date marks the first meeting, in 1982, of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

Published on: 9 August, 2022