Indigenous people
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Under a new law in Brazil, indigenous people have no right to claim their ancestral land from which they had forcedly been displaced before October 1988.Despite President Lula's objection, the new law came into force on December 28, the Guardian repo...
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The leaders of 54 Indigenous communities in Brazil called on Friday for the government to take a concrete stance on the demarcation of their ancestral lands before a key Supreme Court ruling on the issue.The Supreme Court's so-called "trial of the ce...
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Her grandfather defended native lands in the Brazilian Amazon with bows and arrows. Today, the weapon of choice for Txai Surui and many young Indigenous activists like her is technology.The 26-year-old Brazilian is one of the stars of Web Summit Rio,...
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Waorani, aka Waos, are indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforests of eastern Ecuador. In May 2019, the ethnicity in Pastaza won a legal case against the Ecuadorian government’s plan to extract oil over 0.5 million acres of their land in the...
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By AFPPope Francis on Monday apologized for the "evil" inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools.The plea for forgiveness from the leader of th...
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To overcome the crisis of food security that has pushed people to cross borders to get their basic food needs due to the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the South American indigenous Wayuu people found a way to achieve relative self-sufficien...
