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2025 February


Mamasa Finds Its Voice: Indigenous Youth Use Radio to Fight for Their Land

Mamasa Finds Its Voice: Indigenous Youth Use Radio to Fight for Their Land

In the remote, mountainous region of Mamasa Regency, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, where internet access is limited and cell service is unreliable, a group of Indigenous youth has turned to a traditional medium to address modern challenges: radio.


Legal aid is a lifeline for vulnerable Australians, but consistent underfunding puts the system at risk

Legal aid is a lifeline for vulnerable Australians, but consistent underfunding puts the system at risk

Many clients are women and children escaping family violence, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who remain vastly overrepresented in the criminal justice system.


Strengthening Bonds to Resist Lithium Extraction: PankararĂș-PataxĂł People in Brazil

Strengthening Bonds to Resist Lithium Extraction: PankararĂș-PataxĂł People in Brazil

“We who have the spiritual strength and relied on our land as a source of life are now selling our wealth and allowing them to be devastated in the name of progress
So what kind of progress is this?” asked the resident of the Jequitinhonha Valley, questioning the false promise of lithium mining corporations.


Language is Culture: Indigenous Youth Fellows Revitalizing Their Languages

Language is Culture: Indigenous Youth Fellows Revitalizing Their Languages

Aligning their skills, they conceived an online platform that contributes to the revitalization of Dadi'idznu through the collection, creation, and dissemination of text and audiovisual materials that can be used both for self-learning and language teaching at educational institutions.


‘It’s disgusting that they can get away with this’: here’s how eviction can affect tenants’ lives

‘It’s disgusting that they can get away with this’: here’s how eviction can affect tenants’ lives

Through in-depth interviews with 53 private tenants in New South Wales and Queensland, we found these experiences negatively shaped people’s lives well into the future.


Should you be allowed to sue a judge? The High Court says no

Should you be allowed to sue a judge? The High Court says no

It allowed the appeal, concluding “the processes employed [by Judge Vasta] were so devoid of procedural fairness [
] and the reasons for judgment so lacking in engagement with the issues of fact and law to be applied” that it would be an “affront to justice” to permit the contempt declaration and the imprisonment order to stand.


Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Are Non-Negotiable: 22 Calls to Action for the Trump Administration on Presidents’ Day

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Are Non-Negotiable: 22 Calls to Action for the Trump Administration on Presidents’ Day

Establishing a commission to reexamine treaties signed with Tribal Nations and find ways they can be honored and implemented in today’s circumstances by operationalizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including upholding Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) in all department consultation practices.


Indigenous Rights Radio Celebrates 10 Years of Amplifying Indigenous Voices

Indigenous Rights Radio Celebrates 10 Years of Amplifying Indigenous Voices

Radio provides the opportunity to continue developing the capacities of men and women, to make spots, podcasts, and special programs in our own languages with topics that affect us, and also to share good practices in the care of the land and the territory, mainly, traditional medicine, food security, among others.


Daily Life of Indigenous Rural Women in the Sahel Brings Many Challenges

Daily Life of Indigenous Rural Women in the Sahel Brings Many Challenges

They frequently live in environments marked by poverty along with the vagaries of climate and conflict, and have to cope not only with their exhausting daily routines, but also with abuse and injustice.


Red Alert! Violent Raids and Arrests in Mapuche Communities in Chubut, Argentina

Red Alert! Violent Raids and Arrests in Mapuche Communities in Chubut, Argentina

These raids–carried out by order of the sentence enforcement judge in Esquel, Jorge Criado, and the public prosecutor, Carlos Cavallo–take place within the context of wildfires burning out of control in Patagonia, which have to date destroyed over 300,000 hectares.


With a ‘tradwife’ starring in Married at First Sight, a nostalgic vision of womanhood takes centre stage

With a ‘tradwife’ starring in Married at First Sight, a nostalgic vision of womanhood takes centre stage

When Married at First Sight Australia bride Lauren Hall said her main goal was to “serve” her man, the reality show contestant was reflecting a growing trend in western culture – the so-called tradwife lifestyle.


Despite Some Gains, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Remain Lowest-Scoring Indicator in Third Annual Clean Car Report

Despite Some Gains, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Remain Lowest-Scoring Indicator in Third Annual Clean Car Report

Following the 2024 report, Angarova reflected that “recognition, respect, and upholding of Indigenous Peoples' right to self-determination, operationalized through the full implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), stands as the cornerstone for a truly just and equitable energy transition benefiting all.”