Human rights defenders who engage with UN continue to be threatened and attacked
The UN Secretary-General released his annual report today on reprisals and intimidation against individuals and groups seeking to cooperate with the UN on human rights. Once again, the report identifies a very concerning number of threats and attacks aimed at silencing human rights defenders in retaliation for…
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
The International Energy Agency (IEA), together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), proposed a sustainable recovery plan to world governments. There will be no better time to move the economy into a green direction, experts say. Representatives of the Russian Socio-Ecological Union, who’ve launched an…
THE WORLD NEEDS SOLIDARITY. YOUR CONTRIBUTION COUNTS.
The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary at a time of great challenge, including the worst global health crisis in its history. Will it bring the world closer together? Or will it lead to greater divides and mistrust? Your views can make a…
Ceremonies for Sk’alich’elh-tenaut
The Lhaqtemish people of Lummi Nation have lived in a reciprocal relationship with Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea bioregion) since time immemorial. They are people of the sea whose culture, sacred sites, and life ways are tied to their territorial waters, and to the orca…
The Federal Security Service (FSB) took control over the creation of the new registry of indigenous peoples of the Russian Arctic, Siberia and the Far East
Compilation and maintenance of the list of small-numbered indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation became another function of the governmental system of monitoring in the sphere of interethnic and interreligious relations and early conflict prevention to be operated by FADN (Federal Agency of Ethnic Affairs)….
Drop the trumped-up charges against Indigenous Kinipan land rights defenders in Indonesia!
Amid the pandemic, six Indigenous villagers, including Kinipan community leader Effendi Buhing, and two Indigenous youth, were arrested by the Central Kalimantan Police, in Indonesia, for defending their customary forest against the expansion of PT Sawit Mandiri Lestari (PT SML), a palm oil company. Buhing was arrested on August…
The dirty secret behind your ‘green’ electric car
The automotive industry is driving growing demand for nickel, critical for batteries, despite the pollution that production can cause. As Tesla shares continued their stellar rise last month, a group representing indigenous communities in Russia sent a letter to Elon Musk. “We are respectfully requesting that you…
The Saami Council supports appeal from indigenous leaders regarding NorNickel
The Saami Council supports the appeal from indigenous leaders and experts of the Russian Federation to Mr. Elon Musk and Tesla, to refrain from buying nickel from NorNickel until the company implement indigenous peoples’ rights and fulfill its environmental obligations. A sustainable future requires…
‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests
OZERPAKH, Russia — A row of stakes hundreds of feet long pokes out of the endless estuary of the Amur River on Russia’s Pacific coast, resembling the naked spine of a giant fish. It is a piece of commercial fishing infrastructure reminding the people…
Denis Sangi. Degradation of federal law “On guarantees of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation”
At the outset, it should be noted that there are two key rights for indigenous peoples around the world. This is the right to ownership of ancestral lands and territories, and the right to self-government and independent decision-making about their own development. The significance…