The Tanzanian government’s attempts to evict the Maasai from their ancestral lands in Loliondo have intensified over the past few months. Criminalization and stigmatization are used as a means to turn the territory of the Maasai into a game area for elite tourism. In June, we shared the struggle of the
On August 31st, in the town of Santa Cruz, the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia held a session on the development of legislative measures to grant legal force to Indigenous Peoples’ autonomous FPIC protocols. Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) has emerged as an international human rights norm that
“Our legend stories take us to the stars – we are people from the stars, we were planted here, on top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, as peaceful people, to live with all the other nations of the Earth, the plant nations, the animal nations, the ones that
In the Kichwa language, kawsari refers to a type of awakening, specifically the awakening to life. The Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku thus named their First Meeting of the Peoples of the Living Forest (Kawsak Sacha) accordingly, held on their territory between the 25th and 27th of July. The Kawsari
On June 23rd, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that the Kenyan government must grant the Ogiek people collective land title to the Mau forest and pay them $1.3 million as compensation for historical injustices. This is a landmark victory for the Ogiek who have been suffering
Land is Life expresses outrage at the death of Byron Guatatoca, Amazonian Indigenous defender of the Province of Pastaza, who died within the framework of the “State of Exception” dictated by the government of Ecuador to suppress peaceful and legal Indigenous-led demonstrations. This is the latest in a series of
