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After Apib’s action, minister Barroso suspends Funai’s decision that eliminates the protection of indigenous territories in Brazil
With information of Apib The minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Luis Roberto Barroso, decided on Tuesday (Feb. 1) to suspend the administrative acts of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) that exclude non-demarcated Indigenous Lands from the..
Stop All Attempts To Evict 70,000 Maasai Indigenous Pastoralists In Tanzania
BRAZIL || IPRI Expresses Its Concern Over The Measure Implemented By Funai That Limits The Protection Of Indigenous Territories
The recognition and protection of indigenous peoples lands, territories and resources is key to the exercise of their human rights. At least 239 traditional territories and 114 peoples in voluntary isolation or recent contact will be adversely affected…
MEXICO || IPRI Requests The Mexican State To Carry Out Effective Actions To Stop Aggressions By An Armed Group Against An Autonomous Community In Chiapas
The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), an international organisation that defends the rights of Indigenous Peoples, makes a respectful call on your government to carry out effective actions for the protection of the life, integrity and the right..
Concern at new armed attacks against indigenous communities and prevalence of impunity in the state of Chiapas
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) and Front Line Defenders express their deep concern at a new wave of attacks against Tzotzil and Tzeltal indigenous communities in the state of Chiapas, in Southern Mexico. During the first days of..
México || IPRI Urges The Mexican State To Increment Its Efforts To Guarantee The Life And Security Of The Tsotsil People Of Aldama, Chiapas, In The Face Of Increasing Armed Attacks
Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Constitutional President of Mexico The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), an international organisation that defends the rights of Indigenous Peoples, makes an urgent call to the government you lead to increase the efforts..
México || IPRI Urges The Mexican State To Increment Its Efforts To Guarantee The Life And Security Of The Tsotsil People Of Aldama, Chiapas, In The Face Of Increasing Armed Attacks
Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Constitutional President of Mexico. The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), an international organisation that defends the rights of Indigenous Peoples, makes an urgent call to the government you lead to increase the efforts..
INDIA – NORTHEAST || Militarization And Conflicts Are Leading To Human Rights Violations, Land Grabbing And Extrajudicial Killings Of Indigenous Peoples
Numerous cases of extrajudicial executions, arrests, torture and land grabbing of Indigenous Peoples are happening with full impunity. This must end now! The Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) condemns the militarization and the resulting gross human rights violations..
PHILIPPINES || Impunity And Criminalization Of Activism In The Philippines: Trumped-up Charges Against Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Defenders
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..
