Launch of the Indigenous World 2021

Written on 12 April 2021.

About the Indigenous World:

For 35 consecutive years the International work Group for Indigenous Affairs IWGIA has published The Indigenous World.

This publication is a one-of-a-kind documentation tool that offers a comprehensive yearly overview of the developments Indigenous Peoples experience around the world. The book also intends to serve as a source of inspiration and advocacy tool to raise global awareness of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, their struggles and their resilience. This 35th edition includes 62 regional and country reports and 20 reports on international processes and initiatives covered in this edition underscore these trends.

Premature deaths and prison violences in Mexico: imprisoned Indigenous women and structural racism

Written on 06 April 2021.

By delving into the lives and premature deaths of four members of the Hermanas en la Sombra Editorial Collective, the author shares her insights on her 12 years long-work with Indigenous women in prison: the racism that exists in prisons, the concealment of ethnic profiles during jail censuses, and the prisons’ violence and function as an instrument of dispossession. What began for the author as academic research on the access to justice of Indigenous women, has become a life project accompanying the struggle of secluded women through writing.

The world's largest democracy? Criminalisation of Indigenous Peoples’ defenders in India

Written on 24 March 2021.

The world knows little of the political situation in India. With a conservative regime that considers social protest to be seditious, the Indian state is persecuting Indigenous Peoples and human rights defenders. Tribal communities are the silent victims of growth in the Indian economy. The cases of defender Soni Sori and Jesuit priest Stan Swamy.

Latin America: criminalization of Indigenous and environmental advocates increases

Written on 06 April 2021.

In the middle of a climate crisis, those who advocate for the environment are persecuted for exercising their right to social protest. As guardians of nature, Indigenous people are the most affected. On many occasions, economic groups use the State’s power to take away legitimacy and suppress social protest.

Myanmar’s ethnic nationalities, doctors and teachers against the military coup

Written on 16 March 2021.

On 1 February 2021, the Burmese Military – known as the Tatmadaw – staged a coup d’etat, arrested the elected government, including the State Counsellor, Aung San Su Kyi, and imposed a yearlong national state of emergency, all through powers allegedly granted under the 2008 Constitution. The rationale was that mass voter fraud, to the tune of 8 million illegal votes, had taken place during the landslide election win for the National League for Democracy (NLD). Acting President Myint Swe transferred legislative, executive and judicial power to the Commander in Chief.

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Launch of the Indigenous World 2021

About the Indigenous World:

Premature deaths and prison violences in Mexico: imprisoned Indigenous women and structural racism

The world's largest democracy? Criminalisation of Indigenous Peoples’ defenders in India

Latin America: criminalization of Indigenous and environmental advocates increases

Myanmar’s ethnic nationalities, doctors and teachers against the military coup

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