Ecuador’s parliament has passed a law allowing private companies to help manage protected areas, prompting backlash from ...

A new report by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that more than half of the 95 legal cases initiated ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) published its opinion on Thursday that all countries in the Americas have legal obligations under human rights law to confront the climate crisis.

In a landmark advisory opinion Thursday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights linked governments’ human rights ...

SSCC is a global network for south-south dialogue, seeking mechanisms for strengthening peace and implementing the UN ...

Indigenous teachers pass on their native language at Michigan State University as a way to resist cultural displacement ...

In early February, in downtown Bogotá, Colombia, Luis Alfredo Acosta recited a line in a book from memory: “I am from the ...

Seven large burial urns from unknown culture found beneath uprooted tree in Fonte Boa, Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, shedding light on indigenous traditions.

“Indigenous equity means revenue that stays in the community and can be passed down to the next generation,” he said. “It means a generational transformation in how major projects get done.” ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andean nation ...