Tag: Indigenous
Thai Cabinet approves citizenship for 483,000 migrants, addressing long-standing rights issues
It enables individuals to access education, healthcare, & labor rights, opportunities previously restricted due to their undocumented status
SPOTLIGHT: Ancestral Lands | More than mere dollar bills
Protecting Indigenous identity, rights and existence. Check, check, check.
SPOTLIGHT: Philippine environment defenders in the crosshairs of red-taggers
Red-tagging of individuals and groups have led to illegal arrests, harassment, and extra-judicial killings
SPOTLIGHT: Pandemic, ‘development project’ threaten survival of Philippine tribe
Many times people are tagged as criminals when they resist development projects, says Aeta man
Philippine tribal group starts global campaign to protect ancestral lands
Alliance seeks broad support to protect ancestral lands in the Cordillera region from ‘environmental plunder’
India’s coronavirus pandemic hits fast dwindling tribe in remote islands
The Great Andamanese are one of six tribes of Mongoloid and African origin
Aeta tribe in Philippines face govt opposition to hold ancestral land
Amidst the pandemic, they’re worried lowlanders will return to try and claim their land again
Mindanao’s tribal children have no school to go back to this...
Activist blames govt for trying to erase the entire indigenous knowledge, culture, and tradition
Teacher battles remote conditions, pandemic to help educate tribal village children
To reach remote Philippines school, teachers have to ride sled pulled by a carabao to cross rivers
Indigenous families forcefully evicted from settlement in Nepal
Authorities at national park set two houses ablaze and destroyed eight others with the use of elephants, Amnesty International says
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