Indigenous Peoples at risk of extinction in Colombia

BY DIANA MENDOZA FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

Although the demographic and sociocultural vulnerability of Colombia's Indigenous population is often attributed to the ill-fated times of the conquest and colonization, their gradual disappearance continues relentlessly amidst the urban diaspora, the long internal armed conflict, forced displacements, loss of territories and the lack of guarantees for their rights to autonomy, self-determination and self-government. In recent decades, the spiral of violence on the Indigenous peoples’  territories allows us to speak of a deliberate extermination as a strategy for the appropriation of their natural resources for extractivism and drug trafficking with the complicity of the State.

Painting: Carlos Menendez

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IWGIA Senior Advisor Marianne Wiben Jensen reflects on 20+ years of work with the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples in Africa

After 20 years of being a member of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa[1]of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), IWGIA senior advisor Marianne Wiben Jensen, reflects on how it all began, what has happened over more than two decades of work and her hopes for the group’s future.

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Urgent Alert: New serious threats towards the Maasai people of Loliondo in Tanzania

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 5
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Tanzania
Region publication is about: Africa
Release year: 2022
Release Month | Day: June
Download URL: https://www.iwgia.org/doclink/iwgia-urgent-alert-june-2022-loliondo-eng-1/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJpd2dpYS11cmdlbnQtYWxlcnQtanVuZS0yMDIyLWxvbGlvbmRvLWVuZy0xIiwiaWF0IjoxNjU1MTkwMDIzLCJleHAiOjE2NTUyNzY0MjN9.MQEvFYXacKeBPu7iW5jInWIqFJ9SqgD3ukbhgMJRpEM

According to reliable information received by IWGIA, the Tanzanian state is currently moving ahead to grab 1,500 km2 of ancestral and legally registered village land belonging to the Maasai Indigenous people in the Loliondo division of Ngorongoro District in northern Tanzania. This land grab will forcefully evict the Maasai from their land. This is happening despite the fact that the East African Court of Justice is expected to issue a ruling on this matter on 22 June 2022.

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Bolsonaro's strategy to make Indigenous Peoples disappear in Brazil

BY RICARDO VERDUM FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

The National Indian Foundation is an active agent of a political strategy to expose peoples in voluntary isolation to contact with outsiders. The Piripkura people, the Pirititi Indigenous Land and the Ituna Itatá Indigenous Land demonstrate the connivance of the indigenist body with the economic and political power that seeks to profit from their natural resources: agribusiness, logging and illegal mining.

Illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous Land. Photo: Bruno Kelly / HAY

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Myanmar: The drug epidemic in Rakhine State

BY KYAW LIN FOR DEBATES INDÍGENAS

In recent decades, the country has become a major producer of yaba, a synthetic drug distributed in pills easily available throughout the country. Rakhine State has now been transformed into one of the major hubs for drug transit in the country and is living through a drug addiction crisis. Meanwhile drug lords pay corrupt authorities to facilitate their business and use money made from drug trafficking to buy property in all major cities of the state.

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