The Guard had encountered guerrillas from the Sixth Front of the FARC erecting signs throughout the community commemorating the third anniversary of the death of FARC leader Alfonso Cano, killed by ...

In the second installment of IC’s investigative series on the Miskitu (Miskito) of Nicaragua, Courtney Parker takes readers on a photo-journey ‘Behind the Miskitu Curtain’, introducing the hidden ...

It is true that, in many cases, protected areas are allowing critical species and ecosystems to persist, and in this way they provide a cushion of hope in our ability to preserve some of the world’s ...

The Kuna people have passed down those traditions, stories, and their language orally, from one generation to the next. So as he puts them on paper, Don Jesús often runs into the challenge of sorting ...

Booming economic growth, a reduction in poverty, low unemployment rates, financial stability and a safe haven for business investors. These were all the result of what Milton Friedman in early 1982 ...

The case of Copones is a legal battle between owners in practice and owners on paper. On May 25, 2016, a hearing at the Constitutional Court became emblematic of how Indigenous communities are ...

Fourth World nations 1 –what the UN calls indigenous peoples–are caught up in violent conflicts between Russia, the United States, and their proxies. Russian and American violent confrontations have ...

Compounding the situation is the troubling evidence that the medicine at the heart of the Wixárika cosmogony, Lophophora williamsii, peyote, or in their language, Hikuri, is rapidly disappearing. The ...

Imagine that your survival depended on defending your right to live where you are standing right now. Any day, the government could decide to start extracting oil or constructing a highway, exactly ...

Last June, an Ecuadorean court ordered the suspension of all mining activities by a Chinese corporation in the highlands of Rio Blanco, in the Molleturo area of the Cajas Nature Reserve. It was a ...

This is the first installment of “The Guardians of Mother Earth,” an exclusive four-part series examining the Indigenous U’wa struggle for peace in Colombia.

On July 27th, the Maya Mam community of Nuevo Amanecer celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of their town and twenty years of successful democratic self-governance. Through the celebration, ...