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Nicaraguan Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera died from health complications after nearly three years in detention and despite US appeals for his release, the health ministry said Sunday. Rivera, a 73-year-old renowned leader of the Miskito people and former member of parliament, was arrested in September 2023 by the left-wing authoritarian government of President Daniel Ortega

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. On the second day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, experts called attention to the ways Indigenous health is deeply tied to nature and highlighted how health inequalities are compounded by environmental degradation, extractive activities, and climate change. The forum’s focus

First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders welcomed 61 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican at Montreal’s airport, marking the first step in returning items held for decades...

Calgary Indigenous business leaders gathered outside Calgary for an energy industry conference say they're not opposed to building major projects quickly, but warn lack of consultation with First Nations will drag timelines out. Likely to be less opposition if governments talked to First Nations in advance, CEO says Paula Duhatschek · CBC News · Posted:

The killing of a 14-year-old Arizona girl is reverberating through Indigenous communities nationwide, including in Indiana, where a local funeral director is demanding justice. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, was reported missing in late January. She was last seen walking near Phoenix before investigators found most

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

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...