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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.


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: Pankararú-Pataxó People in Brazil

Strengthening Bonds to Resist Lithium Extraction: Pankararú-Pataxó 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.