In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face growing threats from organized crime, yet are largely invisible to the state, ...

We’re going to just keep mopping the ocean,” said Toya Manchineri, referring to Brazil’s administration effort to expel ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Pope Francis made a strong moral case for addressing climate change and respecting Indigenous rights. Will Pope Leo do the same?

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

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, ...

Academics argue that tribal use of blood quantum as a measure of who qualifies as Indigenous will lead to membership declines ...

The first rights-of-nature case taken to court in Peru has roots in the parish of Santa Rita de Castilla. One of the effort's ...