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Synopsis Maggie Feldman-Piltch, Founder of Unicorn Strategies, praised India's 'Make In India' defence production initiative during the Munich Security Conference. She stressed the importance of international collaborations, especially with the US, to enhance India's defence sector. Feldman-Piltch highlighted the benefits of mirroring US and European strategies and emphasized increasing military-to-military exchanges to strengthen the India-US

In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the precursor to death.  Last year, a human rights and environmental watchdog group determined that 177 land defenders were killed in 2022. Land defenders are

Science & Nature In November I took part in two very different gatherings—one in Canada, the other in Aotearoa New Zealand—which highlight both the...

A new decade-long study estimates forests in Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon can potentially prevent about 15 million cases of respiratory and cardiovascular...

PRADO, Bahia — Eliane de Oliveira Conceição heard the roar of gunfire before she could see who was firing. In the early hours of daylight, she could make out three vehicles that slowly approached the farm and opened fire indiscriminately. She darted for a place to hide...

Michellejean Pinuhan, an Indigenous Higaonon, completed her bachelor’s degree in agriculture entrepreneurship in 2022. Then, instead of working in the city after graduation, she chose to return to her roots in the Mount Sumagaya region, in the southern Philippines. The 23-year-old is part of a cohort of Indigenous youths known as basbasonon (second-liners): volunteers keeping