On the evening of Thursday, September 1st, 2023, five agricultural workers who were members of the households in Ruvinga Groupment in Ituri Province were massacred by CODECO armed militias. Twenty-five people were also injured, seven were held hostage during the looting of their properties, and over 200 farmers from the
African Indigenous Peoples are being seriously affected by the climate crisis. Africa Climate Week (4th– 8th September) and the continent’s first Climate Summit (4th – 6th) offer a chance for action, but serious doubts have emerged about exactly who is controlling the agenda, and whether the decisions taken will favor
Fifty one years have now transpired since the day, June 26, 1972, that Ecuadorian television viewers saw “the first oil barrel being filled with the country’s recently discovered ‘black gold’. It was the beginning of a so-called oil ‘boom’, which in 2023, now appears to be coming to an end. The
Han pasado 51 años desde que, el 26 de junio de 1972, se documentó para la televisión nacional la forma en que “el oro negro llenaba el primer barril de petróleo”. “el oro negro llenaba el primer barril de petróleo”. Ese fue el inicio del denominado ‘boom’ petrolero en el
Today marks 25 years of the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord between the Government of Bangladesh and the United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, that was supposed to put an end to a long-lasting armed conflict between the Bangladesh Army and the Indigenous Peoples of
Land is Life’s Latin America Program Assistant, Majo Andrade Cerda, attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh over the past two weeks. Along with coordinating our side event on the rights of Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation, Majo attended many discussions alongside Indigenous leaders of
