- Details
On Human Rights Day, Indigenous Peoples in Latin America are facing a profoundly grave situation. They are on the losing end in the gap between the development of national and international normative standards for the protection of their rights and their lack of implementation on the ground. They not only face the State’s force, imposing “development” projects and dispossessing them from their lands; but also illegal armed groups that dispute their territories with deadly force.
- Details
On June 30, 2021, 35 families or around 200 individuals, majority of whom belonged to tribal communities and few were Dalits, were forcibly evicted from Bhatapani and Dumerpani hamlets in Sahajkhol Reserve Forest under Ampani police station area of Koksara block in Kalahandi district of Odisha
- Details
On March 9, 2021, Hidme Markam, 28, an Adivasi human rights activist, was arrested while at an event marking the International Women’s Day organized by the Jail Bandi Rihai Committee (Committee for Release of Prisoners) and the Chhattisgarh Mahila Adhikar Manch at Sameli village under Aranpur police station in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh
- Details
On February 28, 2021, Barangay Captain Julie Catamin who challenged the baseless red tagging of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the military was shot dead
- Details
On July 12, 2021, the Regional Trial Court in Tagum City, capital of Davao del Norte – a province in Davao region in Mindanao Island at the south of the Philippines—rejected the criminal prosecution against the indigenous human rights defender, Windel Bolinget.