More than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in WWI – but unlike white soldiers, they weren’t feted as heroes. They responded with collective activism.

Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted a landmark declaration on Indigenous rights, advocates say countries ...

Tribes navigating the U.S. lithium boom have little power to influence decisions on homelands seized from them. Governments ...

The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues closed its annual meeting with urgent calls for climate action and Indigenous land protections, even as it grapples with severe funding cuts and questions ...

Update: On November 16, 2022, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi signed the new law on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Indigenous Pygmy Peoples. Four months ago, the Democratic ...

Indigenous advocates who have been fighting for their rights to be acknowledged in global regulations for seabed mining are bracing for the outcome of this week’s gathering of the International Seabed ...

A federal district court judge last week cited a vacated 2007 opinion and colonial-era "royal proclamations" in ruling against three Shinnecock Indian Nation fishermen who sought a declaration ...

Aboriginal land councils across NSW have called an emergency meeting opposing a proposed law change they say would undermine land rights. Land councils say the change will prevent unused Crown land ...

As delegates from around the world gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the United Nations’ 29th annual climate summit, also known as COP29, one of the most contentious debates centers on carbon trading—a ...

Canada has signed more than 70 treaties with its Indigenous peoples. The United States has more than 300 treaties. Our neighbour, New Zealand, has the Treaty of Waitangi. Countries such as Ecuador, ...

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Maasai have called the grasslands of Northern Tanzania home. But for years, the Tanzania government has been trying to convert the region, which is legally Maasai ...