Four people shot in new attack to Indigenous land in Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil Reuters Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organisation said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region. Attackers opened fire against the Indigenous community near the city of Guaira, in the southern Parana state, injuring […]
Essay: COP16 – the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead
HARRIET BULKELEY, in an article first published on The Conversation, says many issues raised at the summit were left unresolved…
Australia struggling to improve Indigenous livelihoods, government report shows
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia is struggling to improve the lives of the country’s Indigenous population, with only five of 19 measures on course to meet targets, showed a government report released on Wednesday. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up 3.6 per cent of Australia’s population of about 27 million but they track near the […]
The colonial-era inequalities that fuelled the New Caledonia crisis
Paris, France Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron said on a visit to New Caledonia on Thursday that inequalities had widened on the French-ruled Pacific archipelago and were a driving force in the deadly civil unrest that broke out last week. The island territory is marked by deep disparities in education and employment, according to census […]
Teenager charged with 19 murders in Guyana school dormitory fire
Georgetown, Guyana Reuters A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after […]
Explainer – What is Australia’s Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ campaign?
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia plans to hold a federal referendum later this year to constitutionally recognise its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through the establishment of a representative Voice that will provide non-binding advice to the parliament. A sticker of the Australian Aboriginal Flag along with the word “RESPECT” is pictured on a structure […]
Attacks on Brazil’s Indigenous people rose sharply in 2021 – Catholic report
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Attacks on Brazil’s Indigenous people and invasions of their lands by illegal miners and loggers, mainly in the Amazon, increased dramatically in 2021, escalating an already “terrifying” situation, the Catholic Church’s Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) said on Wednesday. In its annual report on violence against Indigenous people, Cimi detailed a dramatic intensification […]
Saints of Past Ages: St Anne
In a special Saints of Past Ages, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, takes a look at St Anne and why she is so important to Indigenous peoples in Canada…
In Canada’s Quebec, Indigenous people continue to fight French law
Montreal, Canada Reuters A sweeping law adopted by Quebec on Tuesday to promote French usage is elevating already simmering tensions with indigenous groups, who see the move as an imposition and have vowed to fight it. Bill 96, passed by a majority of Quebec legislators, sets stricter rules to enforce French usage in the province, […]
“Useless for us”: New Indonesian capital excludes Indigenous, poor
RINA CHANDRAN and LEO GALUH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that the new capital city will uproot thousands of indigenous people, and offers little incentive for poorer residents in Jakarta to move…