Kenya: William Sipai’s Fight for Maasai Land Rights in Kedong On 14 September 2025, government surveyors escorted by a police battalion arrived in Kedong to install boundary markers on land claimed by the Maasai. Community members moved quickly..
Tag: Criminalization
The ongoing displacement of the Marihangin community and their fight for land recognition in the Philippines
For the Marihangin Indigenous community in the Philippines, legal protection of their territory was meant to safeguard them against dispossession. In practice, the more than two-decade wait for recognition of their ancestral lands has coincided with escalating corporate..
Call for signatures – Solidarity with Indigenous woman defender Silvia Pérez Yescas in Mexico
MEXICO || Historical violence in Chiapas: We demand peace for Tsajalch’en
To the supportive public. To the media. To international human rights organizations. To the Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas, Mexico, and the world. Brothers and sisters, In the Altos region of Chiapas, there is an indigenous Tsotsil community that..
IPRI calls for an immediate cessation of unprecedented repression against Indigenous Peoples in Panama
Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI) makes an urgent call to stop the violent police raids and arbitrary arrests of indigenous leaders in the communities of the Ngäbe-Buglé Comarca in Panama, which have left at least one young indigenous..
INDIA || IPRI urges to stop violence and violations of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in tiger conservation projects
IPRI condemns criminalization of Indigenous leaders in Guatemala
Violent attacks against Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia by the Rempang Eco City National Strategic Project developers
ECUADOR: Immediately cease repression and criminalization of community members of the parishes of Palo Quemado and La Pampa defending their territories against mega-mining projects
