In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry. The river, ...

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, at the inaugural forum of the Global Coalition for Social Justice during the ...

Indigenous leaders from across Latin America are gathering in Sarayaku, Ecuador, to discuss enforcing Inter-American Court ...

Colombia this week took a leading position in Latin America for Indigenous rights and forest protection by formalizing ...

Though Pope Leo XIV has been lauded for his advocacy in defense of immigrants and worker rights—his namesake, Leo XIII, who ...

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples ...

J ane Fonda has always been one to stand up for what she believes in. With a lifetime of activism under her belt, the ...

Emily’s Law,” named for a Native American teen who was found dead, highlights the disproportionate rates of disappearance and ...

Indigenous peoples' representatives fear that increased trade with Europe will lead to the agricultural exploitation of their ...

A new genetic study reveals that the first Americans migrated from Russia between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago, crossing the ...

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of ...