As New Zealand celebrates its annual Māori language week, the government is ramping up initiatives to remove recognition of ...

After years of delays, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) will soon meet for the first time to discuss ...

The country has raised its hand to help found a regional alliance backed by the Inter-American Development Bank.

This contamination hurts indigenous people who depend on the rivers for fishing, bathing and drinking, causing long-term health and environmental problems. Criminal organizations have also taken ...

Indigenous people across New York State will benefit from a new $2.5 million grant to help pay for their dental care. The state Department of Health announced the funding, which will support and ...

Bangladesh’s White Paper committee will review foreign loan deals signed by the fallen kleptocratic regime. We recommend that ...

On Sunday evening, people celebrated "El Grito de Dolores" -- the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence ...

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

The group, known as FENAMAD, defends the rights of Peru’s Indigenous peoples. It says tensions between loggers and Indigenous tribes are on the rise and more government protective action is needed.

In Ecuador, the Constitution recognizes Indigenous people's "collective ownership of land as an ancestral form of territorial organization." The state, however, maintains control over anything ...