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Indigenous Communities Examine Risks and Impacts of Climate Change at First Annual Meeting in Colombia

Indigenous Communities Examine Risks and Impacts of Climate Change at First Annual Meeting in Colombia

The participants agreed that there must be a clear and precise definition of climate change and culturally relevant systems to understand the problem and find community solutions, such as ensuring continuity with agroecological practices, diversifying reforestation, strengthening of seed banks, and use and respect for Traditional Knowledge in the care of the territories.


CosmovisĂŁo/ CrĂ­tica/ Causa: The Art of Denilson Baniwa

CosmovisĂŁo/ CrĂ­tica/ Causa: The Art of Denilson Baniwa

Through a practice that comprises art making, media producing, exhibition curation, and archival research, he spotlights urgent conversations while leveraging accusations and clamoring for colonially-rooted societies and institutions to reckon with their complicitness in the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples.


Despite some key milestones since 2000, Australia still has a long way to go on gender equality

Despite some key milestones since 2000, Australia still has a long way to go on gender equality

These include the appointment of Australia’s first female governor-general in 2008 and prime minister in 2010, the introduction of universal paid parental leave in 2011, a high-profile inquiry into workplace sexual harassment in 2020, and new legislation requiring the public reporting of gender pay gaps in 2023.


Lake Pátzcuaro: A Mirror Cracked by Climate Change

Lake Pátzcuaro: A Mirror Cracked by Climate Change

Esteban Silva, the workshop's founder, says, "One of the biggest blows we suffered was four years ago when we went to remove the water lilies as part of our program to recover or protect some springs, we saw that herbicides had been applied to the plants and aquatic weeds."


The Crisis of Deforestation on Indigenous Lands and Territories

The Crisis of Deforestation on Indigenous Lands and Territories

They are brave men, women, elders and youth who are in the last line of defense for their forest communities against commercial or state-owned industrial companies that destroy everything in their path to economic gain and multimillion-dollar profits.


The Importance of Our Relatives: The Forests and Trees

The Importance of Our Relatives: The Forests and Trees

When I return to my memories as a child, to how I felt protected and at peace in the presence of the trees and how they knew what I was feeling, I understand now that they provided a kinship and an ancestral connection that was fragmented in my life.


Rights at Risk: Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace Ruling Has Implications for All

Rights at Risk: Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace Ruling Has Implications for All

Greenpeace, along with many allied organizations, acted in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, including drawing attention to Tribal complaints that Energy Transfer desecrated burial grounds and culturally important sites during construction.


Every generation thinks they had it the toughest, but for Gen Z, they’re probably right

Every generation thinks they had it the toughest, but for Gen Z, they’re probably right

Compared with young adults two or three decades ago, today’s 18–35-year-olds may earn more, but they also grapple with soaring living costs, rising education expenses, precarious employment and mounting debt.


Indigenous Peoples and the Car Industry: How Hyundai Harms Indigenous Peoples Throughout the Americas

Indigenous Peoples and the Car Industry: How Hyundai Harms Indigenous Peoples Throughout the Americas

The company responsible faces ongoing allegations of failing to adequately compensate affected families, as well as continued environmental harms, including improper hazardous waste disposal.” These are some of the chemical and devastating fingerprints of Hyundai's suppliers.


Weaving of Nasa Meaning into Life: Maria Violet Medina Quisque

Weaving of Nasa Meaning into Life: Maria Violet Medina Quisque

The textiles that Maria and women in the other pueblos weave contain an infinite symbology, a breadth of meaning- making technologies, that are copied “soullessly” by capitalist enterprise.


Victims of sexual violence often feel they’re the ones on trial. Independent lawyers would help

Victims of sexual violence often feel they’re the ones on trial. Independent lawyers would help

To ensure the promises of the inquiry are fulfilled, the government must continue to be guided by expert research evidence and the lived experience advisory group it appointed to support the implementation of the recommendations.


The High Court made a landmark decision on native title law. Here’s what it means

The High Court made a landmark decision on native title law. Here’s what it means

There were three main issues that were debated before the High Court: whether native title land can be acquired, whether the just terms guarantee applies to the territories, and what role pre-Constitutional mining agreements play.