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Women from the Brazilian delegation attend an indigenous event during the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in December 2023.
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human rights

UNGA: Transform landmark Indigenous rights declaration into reality

Arid land
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environment

The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the right to water

A Kirghiz family at the foot of the Kongur mountains in Xinjiang, China.
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environment

The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the indigenous peoples' right to land and territory

A Sudanese student drinks and washes her face at a new water fountain in a primary school for girls
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environment

The effects of the production and the use of agrofuels on human rights: the indigenous peoples’ right to natural resources

Children will too often fall victim to the hunger and poverty of underdevelopment. This is especially true for indigenous children who live in rural areas in Latin American countries, isolated from other national communities.  Many United Nations programm
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human rights

ILO: Indigenous children at high risk of being in child labour

Inuit children from Uummannaq in Greenland
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human rights

United Nations: Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights urges Denmark and Greenland to examine colonial legacy’s impact

Girls from the Arhuacos indigenous community of Colombia
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human rights

UN launches 10-year survival plan for endangered indigenous languages

A view of a participant during the opening of the 23rd Session of Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on the theme: "Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination in the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth”.
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United Nations

OHCHR: Call for Sweden to respect indigenous rights and withdraw from the Gállok mining project

indigenous woman holds brazilian flag with red stains representing blood.
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environment

Brazil: UN human rights expert appeals that Supreme Court must uphold indigenous land rights

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human rights

Sur International Journal on Human Rights published a new edition on Human Rights Defenders

Defending tomorrow. Report. Logo
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environment

Global Witness Annual Report on Land and Environmental Defenders: attacks are on the rise

A woman plants some seeds while taking part in a Sahelian plants grow testing and reforestation project in Malamawa village, Zinder Region, Niger on July 30
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Land Rights

Land grabbing: what does it truly mean?

Cover of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development's report called “Uncalculated Risks. Threats and attacks against human rights defenders and the role of development financiers”
human rights

Coalition for Human Rights in Development: the report “Uncalculated Risks. Threats and attacks against human rights defenders and the role of development financiers” has been published

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, letter to world leaders entitled "They should have known better"
United Nations

A letter from the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to world leaders

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
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United Nations

United Nations: the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples published the report on her visit to Mexico