Training Indigenous Women to Influence the Climate Struggle
BY ROCÍO YON, HORTENCIA HIDALGO & FRANCISCA CARRIL FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Institutional responses to the
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A Pathway to Climate Resilience for Indigenous Communities in Tanzania
BY PAINE EULALIA MAKO FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Indigenous communities in Tanzania face a myriad of
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The Decolonizing Climate Policy Project
BY INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Climate change's roots are deeply entwined with colonialism's legacy. As its devastating effects
...Ecuador: the fascist face of extractivism
BY PABLO ORTÍZ-T. FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In recent months, Daniel Noboa’s government has carried out two offensives that put human rights at risk.
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Humanitarian emergency in Chiapas
BY WRITER FOR PEACE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Residents of the parish of Chicomuselo in the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, have been left to their own
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Javier Milei and Indigenous Peoples
BY SILVINA RAMÍREZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Only five months after taking office, the new anarcho-capitalist government attempted to repeal the Land Law
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Proselytism by the New Tribes sect among the Nukak hunter-gatherers
BY JORGE RESTREPO G. INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Through the weapons of armies but also those of the gospel, the subjugation and annihilation of many American peoples advanced intensely during the
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Challenges and opportunities for Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact in Venezuela
BY
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Barbarism, trauma and alienation
BY EFRAÍN JARAMILLO AND COLECTIVO DE TRABAJO JENZERÁ FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Indigenous Peoples of the Bolivian lowlands and ethnic peoples of the Colombian Pacific share the trauma
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A Halt on Illegal Mining in Bolivia
BY FÁTIMA MONASTERIO MERCADO FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Gold mining is booming on the banks of the rivers that cross Indigenous territories and national parks in the Bolivian Amazon. Faced with
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Mining Extractivism in Indigenous Territories in Peru
BY LUIS A. HALLAZI MÉNDEZ FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
For centuries, colonialism constructed an image of Peru as a mining country. This narrative has been sustained by a relevant participation of
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Is the extraction of lithium in the Jequitinhonha River Valley worth so much sacrifice?
BY RICARDO VERDUM FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
Supported by transnational economic sectors, the government of Jair Bolsonaro deregulated lithium mining. Companies settled in Jequitinhonha and
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Expansion of Coal and Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada
BY SIDNEY COLES FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Despite its global reputation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Canada has a strong contributing extractive sector. Much of its mining activity is
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Weaving networks among indigenous women of the sea: everyday political action and resistance from the territories
BY KARINA VARGAS HERNÁNDEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Indigenous women in Chile
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Peru: a democracy that excludes victims
BY ANA MARÍA VIDAL CARRASCO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Alberto Fujimori's dictatorship forcibly sterilized at least 6,974 women, especially rural
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Women face the patriarchal and colonial legacy of mining extractivism
BY ELIZABETH LÓPEZ CANELAS FOR INDIGENOUS DEBATES
One of Bolivia's main social and historical debts relates to the impact of traditional mining on women's health. Feminicides, physical and psychological
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Community protection mechanisms for women’s rights in Ecuador
BY MARIANA YUMBAY YALLICO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
67.8% of Indigenous women in Ecuador have suffered some form of violence:
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Creoles in Nicaragua: territorial demarcation, self-determination and resistance
BY ALEXANDRINA HENRÍQUEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Since colonial times and slavery, the population of African origin
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“The relationship between the Raizales and the Colombian State has been conflictive”
Sally Ann García Taylor is a Raizal woman who studied Political Science and Government at the Universidad del Rosario, and a Master's
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Acknowledgement, invisibility and participation in Afro-Bolivian communities
BY PAOLA YAÑEZ INOFUENTES FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Despite the achievements of the Plurinational State, racism and racial
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Afro-Mexicans have always been relegated to the last rung
BY MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Rosy Castro Salinas is an Afro-Mexican woman from the Charco Redondo community in the municipality of Tutupepec, in
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Afro-Colombians and interculturality in the Pacific Region
BY MARCELA VELASCO, FERNANDO CASTRILLÓN AND ALONSO TOBÓN FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Afro-Colombian communities in the Pacific region account for
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Towards an Afro-descendant Peoples’ Declaration of Rights: An Exercise of Autonomy and Self-Determination
BY JHON ANTÓN SÁNCHEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Born in the heat of the conquest and the slave trade, Black communities in the Americas have
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Geographies of maroonage in the Americas
BY DAVI PEREIRA JUNIOR FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The history of the Americas was forever shaped by the massive introduction of Africans as slaves, who
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Atopo W+p+ village’s fight against a power plant in French Guiana
BY PIERRE AUZERAU Y MELISSA SJABERE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
On the edge of French territory, in north-western Guiana, the
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Life is also territory: an interview with Amazonian anthropologist Alberto Chirif
BY RENATO PITA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Alberto Chirif Tirado (Lima, 1943) is a prominent Peruvian anthropologist who has
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Chilean Presidential Commission for Peace and Understanding: a real opportunity or more of the same?
BY HERNANDO SILVA NERIZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In recent decades, conflicts over Mapuche ancestral lands have
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White-collar miners: who is devastating the Amazon?
BY LUIS SALAS RODRÍGUEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
While miners are blamed for the destruction of the forests, this gold fever would not exist without
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Bolivia: moving towards Indigenous led conservation
BY LILIAN PAINTER, ZULEMA LEHM, OSCAR LOAYZA AND ROBERT WALLACE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The experience of the Wildlife Conservation Society
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The impact of conservation on Indigenous Peoples: a case study of the Loliondo pastoralists in Tanzania
In Africa, the protected area model known as "fortress conservation" is encroaching on
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Self-determination, conservation and Tarimat Pujut in the Wampís Nation
BY SHAPIOM NONINGO & FREDERICA BARCLAY FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Despite progress at the international level, the
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Indigenous governance and conservation of the commons in Bolivia
BY LEONARDO TAMBURINI FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the environmental movement has not always
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The colonial face of environmental conservationism in Ecuador
BY ALFREDO VITERY GUALINGA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Throughout history, colonialism has taken many forms. First, it manifested in religious
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Protected areas and Indigenous territories: a problematic coexistence
BY RENÉ KUPPE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Since the middle of the 20th century, protected areas have expanded all over the planet
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Nicaragua: justice takes time but it comes
MAYANGNA WAHAINI RAMHNI TANI (MAWARAT) FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The struggle of indigenous peoples for their land rights has brought about an increase
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Philippines: gold mining and Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera
BY JILL K. CARIÑO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The ancestral practices of Indigenous Peoples use extraction methods that respect nature and
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Human remains repatriation: a museum curator’s perspective
The repatriation of ancestral remains is a vital act of cultural revitalization and reclamation of heritage for
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Oil blindness in Peru: laws that neither look to the past nor to the future
BY MARIO ZÚÑIGA LOSSIO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Peruvian Congressional Commission on Energy and Mining passed a bill that enables
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Patricia Tobón Yagarí: “Indigenous participation is a clear signal from the government to all of Colombia”
Patricia Tobón Yagarí has been Director of the Victims Unit since August 2022. This is a body that seeks to provide comprehensive
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Illegal mining in Venezuela: a map of the issue
BY LUIS SALAS RODRÍGUEZ & WATANIBA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The country’s economic crisis and the lack of expectations for most of
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The Colonisation of Mayangna territories in Nicaragua
BY MAYANGNA WAHAINI RAMHNI TANI (MAWARAT) FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The expropriation of ancestral territories to settlers is a risk to the life,
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Memoirs of Mapuche women relatives of disappeared detainees in Chile
BY DÉBORA ASTUDILLO RAMOS AND MARÍA JOSÉ LUCERO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
During the last civil-military dictatorship, the
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“The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is an institutional platform by and for Indigenous Peoples”
Lola García-Alix is a senior advisor on Global Governance at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), and since the
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Ethnocide and discrimination of the Tsimane people: the paradox of the Plurinational State
BY ALCIDES VADILLO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Some 12 Indigenous communities of the Tsimane people living in the Yucumo
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Unadapted living: Karara contact and death on the Jatapu River
BY VICTOR ALCANTARA E SILVA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Esese was a baby in arms when her family was captured in their village in the
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Decolonizing genocide in Brazil: challenges to defending Indigenous collective life
BY MARIA JUDITE DA SILVA BALLERIO GUAJAJARA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The plan to exterminate the country’s
...Fifty years of exile and injustice for the Ãwa people
BY PATRÍCIA DE MENDONÇA RODRIGUES FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The colonial persecution of the survivors of the Avá-Canoeiro peoples, better known as
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The end of the world and the birth of the birds: how the Omerê Kanoé and Akuntsú survived genocide
BY LUCIANA KELLER TAVARES FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The last six members of these indigenous peoples from eastern Brazil have survived the genocide,
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The Tuxá and the “river sea”: seeking justice among submerged worlds
BY FELIPE TUXÁ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Until the arrival of colonization and modernity, this Indigenous people of
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Yanomami: history returns as a tragedy foretold
BY ALCIDA RITA RAMOS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In recent decades, the people of the Brazilian Amazon have lost the tranquillity that the jungle
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Pasts that do not pass: Indigenous genocides in Brazil
BY CARLOS SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In the face of recent crimes against indigenous peoples in Brazil,
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Kryýgi, the Aché girl returned to her ancestral land after 120 years
BY MIGUEL H. LÓPEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Aché people inhabited the vast eastern jungles of Paraguay for centuries. Their
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The journey of Māori and Moriori ancestors
BY TE ARIKIRANGI MAMAKU-IRONSIDE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Between the 18th and 19th centuries, travelers who arrived on the coasts
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The struggle for the return of Ryukyuan ancestral remains
BY YASAKATSU MATSUSHIMA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In 1879, the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan. For decades, Japanese anthropologists
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Restitution of Indigenous human remains: the case of Argentine museums
BY MARÍA LUZ ENDERE FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Argentina has one of the most important and sensitive bioanthropological collections in Latin
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Autonomy in the Multi-ethnic Indigenous Territory in Bolivia
MIGUEL VARGAS DELGADO PARA DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In 1990, indigenous peoples of the Lowlands led the March for Territory and Dignity
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Clinging to colonialism: the State of Guatemala and plunder of Indigenous Peoples’ lands
BY SILVEL ELÍAS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Narratives and actions against Indigenous Peoples are still present in
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Ecuador: Siekopai siege, dispossession and resistance
BY PABLO ORTIZ-T. FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
From the first contact with the Western world, the Siekopai have had to resist and fight for their territories and lives. The Amazonian
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BioClima: the project that threatens Indigenous Peoples of Nicaragua
BY MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ AND PIERRE FRÜHLING FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
A project financed through the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund worth
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The rebellion of the Andean peoples of Peru
BY JAIME BORDA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The socio-political crisis the country is going through is systematic and structural. With this new wave of repression
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Joenia Wapichana: “FUNAI was not defending Indigenous Peoples”
BY MARÍA DE LOURDES BELDI DE ALCANTAR FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
After becoming Brazil’s first Indigenous Federal Deputy (2019-2022), President Lula
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People are pouring into Peru’s capital protesting against institutionalized racism
BY KATHIA CARRILLO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Since Dina Boluarte took office, violence against the community has not
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Plurinationality and self-determination in Latin America: reimagining the nation, reinventing the State
BY ROGER MERINO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) published
Windel Bolinget: "We must not allow States to monopolize the Universal Periodic Review"
BY LOLA GARCÍA-ALIX FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
During his first participation in one of the sessions of the Human Rights
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Eliesio Marubo: “Brazilian politics has given no importance to the Indigenous movement’s agenda”
BY MARIA ALCANTARA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
After his involvement in the search for indigenist, Bruno Pereira, and British
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Nemo Andi: "We have been speaking the truth about all that is happening in the Amazon, the jungle and the Ecuadorian coast"
The head of the Women and Health of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE) participated in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. As a member of a confederation that brings together 11 nationalities and 23 organizations of the Amazon
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Indigenous Peoples, public policies and elections in Brazil
BY MIRIAN POTIGUARA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The country owes a great internal, social and historical debt: the genocide of the
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New Mashuin elected for the Shawi Autonomous Territorial Government
BY MICHAEL WATTS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
On the 4th and 5th of November more than 500 Shawi leaders gathered in the community of Nueva Vida, on the banks of the
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Eliel Castillo: "We have never depended on anyone outside our culture"
As part of the regional seminar Right to autonomy and indigenous justice, the leader of the Wayúu people
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Legal pluralism in Bolivia: from the Guaraní people’s perspective
BY MÓNICA GUZMÁN AND BRUNO ELÍAS DOMÍNGUEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Indigenous justice recognizes that communities have their own organizational
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Indigenous Justice in Ecuador
BY MARIANA YUMBAY FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The 2008 Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador establishes Ecuador as a plurinational and intercultural country. One of
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Awajún community justice
BY GIL INOACH SHAWIT FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The people of the Peruvian Amazon have the goal of building an autonomous and intercultural justice system that reincorporates
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Like sorcerer's apprentices: the rejection of plurinationality in Chile
BY SALVADOR MILLALEO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Constituent Assembly, born of the 2019 protests, spent two years drafting a new constitutional text that
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Climate commitments in Latin America: an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples?
BY ROSARIO CARMONA, FRANCISCA CARRIL Y ROCÍO YON FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Over the last decade, States have built their climate governance around
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Ethnic peoples and communities caught between the legislative and executive branches
BY DIANA MENDOZA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Norman Bañol Álvarez is a congressman for the special Indigenous constituency
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Mama Luz Dary Aranda Morales: “Don’t let this moment pass us by”
BY MAURICIO MARTÍNES FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Colombia's new government faces enormous challenges, but the Indigenous movement must "not let the
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In the construction of autonomy, education and peace
By Diana Mendoza for Debates Indígenas
Asdrúbal Plaza Calvo is a Yanacona teacher who has been involved with the Colombian
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Leonor Zalabata Torres: “In Colombia, we wish to live in peace”
BY ALEJANDRO PARELLADA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The leader of the Arhuaco people will be the first Indigenous woman to hold the post
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A new Government to Vivir sabroso in Colombia
BY DIANA ALEXANDRA MENDOZA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The election of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez marks a milestone in Colombian
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Indigenous Summit in Colombia: unity is built from the kitchen
BY MAURICIO MARTÍNEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The summit took place on July 27-30 and was attended by seven national Indigenous
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Mexico: training interpreters in Indigenous languages
BY ELISA CRUZ RUEDA & ARTEMIA FABRE ZARANDONA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The civil association Diálogo y Movimiento (DIMO) created the
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Ecuador: National Mobilization suspended and an uncertain dialogue is established
BY ALFREDO VITERY GUALINGA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Act for Peace marked a truce between the Government and the Indigenous organizations that promoted the National Strike that paralyzed the whole country. However, the political environment has not calmed down and society is
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The destruction of the Cenepa River in Peru
BY GIL INOACH SHAWIT FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In the middle of the Awajún territory, the permanent dredging activity and the use of mercury in gold mining
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Vivir sabroso or to live well or joyfully in Colombia: an alternative to the collective trauma experienced by ethno-territorial peoples
BY MARCELA VELASCO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The lengthy armed conflict has left most Colombians with psychological, physical and community scars.
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Lesle Jansen: “In today’s South Africa Indigenous women are invisible”
BY NIKITA BULANIN FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Lesle Jansen, an environmental lawyer and Indigenous Peoples rights activist from South Africa is a member of
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Chiapas: Indigenous women weaving territories of life
BY DELMY TANIA CRUZ HERNÁNDEZ FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Zapatista journey has marked the lives of Indigenous peoples and peasant communities with
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Indigenous women of Peru demand repeal of the law that arms civilians
BY ONAMIAP FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Under the pretext of fighting against terrorism and drug trafficking, Congress approved, by insistence, Law
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Violence against Indigenous women: a global challenge
BY SIGNE LETH FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Indigenous Women around the world face disproportional levels of violence and harassment due to past and present
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The ruling on the Napalpí Massacre in Argentina: justice for the past and inspiration for the present
BY CARLOS SALAMANCA VILLAMIZAR FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The Truth Trial for the Napalpí Massacre that took place in 1924 recognised the State’s responsibility in
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Indigenous Peoples at risk of extinction in Colombia
BY DIANA MENDOZA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Although the demographic and sociocultural vulnerability of Colombia's Indigenous population is often attributed to
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Bolsonaro's strategy to make Indigenous Peoples disappear in Brazil
BY RICARDO VERDUM FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The National Indian Foundation is an active agent of a political strategy to expose peoples in voluntary isolation to
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Myanmar: The drug epidemic in Rakhine State
BY KYAW LIN FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
In recent decades, the country has become a major producer of yaba, a synthetic drug distributed in pills easily
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The industrialisation of lithium and citizen participation in Bolivia
BY JOSÉ CARLOS SOLÓN FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Over the past 10 years, society has had little to no control over the exploitation of
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Peru: the spiral of a never-ending crisis
BY ANA MARÍA VIDAL CARRASCO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The crisis we are experiencing is not new. It would seem that we had already hit rock bottom and that we
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Historic mobilization of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
BY INDIANARA RAMIRES MACHADO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
As never before, leaders from all over the country came together for a show of force
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Mexico's War on Drugs as a Policy of Social Reorganization
BY ANA ESTHER CECEÑA AND DAVID BARRIOS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Despite its biodiversity, cultural richness and strategic geographic location, the "war on drugs" has
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Drug trafficking in Colombia undermines the foundations of Indigenous autonomy
BY MARCELA VELASCO FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Drug trafficking penetrates Indigenous communities, persecuting their leaders, and co-opting the youngest members.
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The tourism industry and drug trafficking in Mexico: from the perspective of the Mayan Peoples
BY ANGEL SULUB FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Before the advance of the presence of the State, the Maya Máasewáal nation lived in times of abundance.
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Indigenous Peoples of Latin America in the Light of Drug Trafficking
BY GILBERTO LÓPEZ Y RIVAS FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
Organized crime pressures communities to grow poppy and marijuana. The strategy
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Plurinationality and the Chilean constituent process: container and content for a space in dispute
BY JUAN CARLOS CAYO RIVERA AND CONSTANZA MONTECINOS PANIAGUA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS
The new Constitution will establish the guidelines
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