2024 was a year of significant progress for IPRI in our fight to promote and defend the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Together, we responded to urgent global challenges—confronting the criminalization and violations of Indigenous rights that continue to..
The adoption of General Recommendation No. 39 (GR 39) by the CEDAW Committee marks a historic and transformative step in the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Women and girls. For the first time, an international human rights..
Volume X of the compilation of United Nations human rights treaty bodies’ jurisprudence on Indigenous Peoples covers the period of 2023-2024. It also contains the advice of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), the..
The alarming violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues following the recent invasion and occupation of Goma and Bukavu in eastern DRC by the Rwanda-backed M23/AFC rebel group, from January 27 and February 14, 2025, respectively,..
On 13 February 2025, an armed group ambushed and shot a pick-up truck near the Sol River, Santo Domingo Petapa, Oaxaca. Inside the truck were Wilfrido Atanacio, Victoriano Quirino and Abraham Chirino, members of the Unión de Comunidades Indígenas..
“Even though I am already old, I still want to help our community in this struggle. I will contribute to the cause in my own ways, for the future generations,” said 84-year-old Rudy Taong, as he signed a..
