indigenous rights

Environmental Defenders Remain Among World’s Most Targeted Activists

A new report found that environmental defenders are increasingly encountering overlapping networks of government officials, corporations, criminal groups and private security forces.

By Katie Surma

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

In Florida, Alligator Alcatraz Remains Open Among Sacred Miccosukee Lands

By Amy Green

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma

Will COP30 Finally Prioritize Indigenous Voices?

By Liza Gross

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region

By Nicholas Kusnetz

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier

By Katie Surma

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations

By Lauren Dalban

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry

By Katie Surma

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds

By Katie Surma

Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’

By Katie Surma