This world map, published in 2002 by The Exploration Company, includes demarcations of ecology, environmental features, population densities, and both political and indigenous nations.

This map depicts the territories of, and around, the Nuxalk peoples of British Columbia, Canada. The map was produced by Mahkum Space Design based on research carried out by the…

Safe drinking water is vital to the health and well-being of all Canadians, including about 330,000 people living in more than 600 1 First Nations communities. Access to safe drinking water can also boost a community’s economic growth and help reduce poverty. However, many First Nations communities live without the assurance that their drinking water is safe

This report highlights the importance and urgency for climate action initiatives of protecting the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories and the communities that look after them. Based on recent experience, it proposes a package of investments and policies for climate funders and government decision-makers to adopt, in coordination with the indigenous and tribal peoples.

In a year where a global pandemic has created mass upheaval, and people everywhere are questioning our current systems and what else could exist to combat rampant inequalities and form just and fair societies, the theme of this week is a timely reminder to ask ourselves: what is reconciliation? What is the intention, the meaning of this word—where has it come from and where is it meant to take us?

Despite recommendations in the first and second cycle aimed at improving the conditions and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in Papua New Guinea, the government has failed to adequately address rights violations, including inadequate access to basic services such as healthcare. Indigenous women and people with disabilities face disproportionate violations to their human rights. Most concerningly, the extraction of natural resources by foreign private industries continues to be prioritized over the health and well-being of the citizens of Papua New Guinea and their ecosystems, despite numerous recommendations to address this issue over more than a decade.

Eritrea is home to a culturally, ethnically, linguistically and religiously heterogeneous society. In spite of this, it has a highly centralised and unitary state. Its government wields complete control and monopoly of the state apparatus, and all national and natural resources belonging to the Eritrean people. With no available legal remedies, the rights of Indigenous Peoples and minorities remain severely curtailed. Eritrea has neither a national legislative nor institutional framework that protects the rights of minorities or other societal groups that lay claim to indigeneity.

Nearly five months since conflict erupted in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, hostilities involving the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), and other armed elements continue to generate and exacerbate humanitarian needs and displace populations. Volatile security conditions in Central, North Western, South Eastern, and Southern zones are rendering some populations inaccessible to humanitarian actors. Meanwhile, relief actors continue to report large population influxes from Tigray’s Western Zone—controlled by authorities from neighboring Amhara Region since November 2020—into North Western Zone’s Shire town, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced or expelled by armed actors.

Ecuador’s greatest Indigenous group has filed a suit against President Lenin Moreno and other administrators for alleged atrocities against humanity perpetrated during demonstrations last October that left 10 people dead. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) requested the prosecutor’s office on Monday to probe “crimes against humanity” because they assume the crackdown was “a well-organized and comprehensive intervention on the civilian people,” the group’s lawyer, Carlos Poveda, reported to AFP news agency.

This article analyzes the development and organization of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), which is being convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres in late 2021. Although few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, it has become clear that the Summit is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food governance and capture the global narrative of “food systems transformation.” This article places the upcoming Summit in the context of previous world food summits and analyzes concerns that have been voiced by many within civil society. It elaborates how the current structure and forms of participant recruitment and public engagement lack basic transparency and accountability, fail to address significant conflicts of interest, and ignore human rights. As the COVID-19 pandemic illuminates the structural vulnerabilities of the neoliberal model of food systems and the consequences of climate change for food production, a high-level commitment to equitable and sustainable food systems is needed now more than ever. However, the authors suggest that the UNFSS instead seems to follow a trajectory in which efforts to govern global food systems in the public interest has been subverted to maintain colonial and corporate forms of control.