Brazil's president announced on Friday that he will partially veto a bill restricting Indigenous groups' claims to ancestral lands, overriding Congress's recent approval of the legislation.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will veto a core stipulat...

Indigenous former players have launched a class action against Australian Rules football bosses for failing to protect them from racist insults on the field, their lawyers said Saturday.The "vile racial abuse" resulted in "life-altering damage" to th...

Faced with a stream of vicious insults on social media, Canada's first Indigenous governor general Mary Simon has decided to turn her pain into a learning moment for her country and launch a fight against racism and misogyny online."For me, it's impo...

In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a languagethat has nearly disappeared."Kamuy," he begins, addressing the gods of the Ainu Indigenous people, as he starts a s...

There has been noticeably less deforestation in areas of Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where indigenous peoples have secure land rights than in comparable regions where land tenure is weak or nonexistent.PNAS Nexus published a paper revealing t...

By AFPPolice in Brazil have strong evidence that an alleged drug trafficker ordered the murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous activist in the Amazon last June, a police chief said on Monday.Police believe Ruben da Silva Villar, who uses t...

By AFPCanada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced.The Can$2.8 billion (US$2.1 billion) settlement, the...

An Indigenous group in western Canada said Thursday it had discovered evidence of possible unmarked graves and a fragment of a child's jawbone on the grounds of a former residential school.In Lebret, Saskatchewan, ground-penetrating radar has uncover...

Upon his arrival at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Brazilian President Lula di Silva offered to host the UN climate change conference in 2025 in the Amazon, a move that has been seen as “important” by so...

By AFPAustralia violated the rights of indigenous people by failing to adequately protect them against the effects of climate change, a United Nations watchdog has ruled, ordering Canberra to pay compensation.In a ground-breaking decision, the UN Hum...

By AFPA stabbing spree in an Indigenous community and a nearby town in Canada's Saskatchewan province left at least 10 people dead and 15 wounded on Sunday, police said, as they launched a manhunt for two suspects in one of the nation's deadliest inc...

Pope Francis on Saturday said the treatment of Indigenous people in Canada amounted to a genocide, after a six-day trip where he apologised to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools."I didn't say the word (in Canada) because it didn't come to my...