Indigenous Rights
“Invasion Day” protests draw tens of thousands across Australia

Thousands gathered across Australia for Invasion Day protests highlighting the ongoing oppression of Indigenous nations.

Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza wants to be Ecuador’s next president

Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza Salazar is one of the 16 candidates contesting the February 9 presidential elections in Ecuador

Leonard Peltier: “It’s finally over – I’m going home”

The Indigenous leader and longest-held political prisoner in the United States will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted.

Ten things to know about Hana’s haka

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill

Māori mobilize to protect treaty rights

Māori activists say that the right-wing coalition government has proposed a series of bills that would undermine the rights and protections of the Indigenous population.

Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as president of Mexico

Mexico’s first female president has vowed to continue and deepen the project of the Fourth Transformation started by her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Panamanian unions lead renewed protests against copper mining concessions

Protests have spread across Panama in rejection of copper mining concessions granted to Canadian company, First Quantum Minerals

Thousands rally across Australia in support of Indigenous Voice

The Voice has faced massive opposition from the conservative and right-wing Liberal-National Coalition, and has become a target of disinformation attacks from reactionaries.

Hawaii wildfires Several weeks after devastating wildfires, Native Hawaiian farmers resist attempt to shift blame

The ultra-right and the government are behind a narrative that implies that Indigenous sovereignty and water rights are to blame for the delay in dousing the Maui wildfires. Indigenous Hawaiians are resisting this campaign and have put forward a charter of demands

House raid Milagro Sala Police in Jujuy raid home of Indigenous activist Milagro Sala amid mass protests

The search warrant was issued as part of an investigation into alleged public disturbances in recent days during the protests rejecting the reforms to the provincial Constitution. The reforms promoted by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales have been widely rejected in the province

Struggle for dignity and rights in Jujuy continues

The protests in the province intensified after a new constitution was passed in the provincial legislature which Indigenous and social movements allege undermines people’s rights

Jujuy rises up against repression and regressive reforms

The province led by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales has been rocked by mass protests against the reform of the constitution which undermines Indigenous rights and the right to protest