Government officials in Bangladesh have come to a cross roads with the latest move by the current government to possibly remove the word “indigenous” from official documents in rel...
A “Tjuringa,” a delicately etched flat stone, recently up for auction through the Canterbury Auction Galleries was pulled August 7 after it’s inclusion caused outrage...
Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala and Colombia met with members of the European Parliament in June where they shared their concerns on human rights violations, labor rights and the i...
One Mayan community in Guatemala is fighting for its right to stay on its own land, and they are looking for support from other Indigenous Peoples also...
Renzo Pipoli
August 25, 2011
The Peruvian Congress unanimously approved a law August 23 described by Amazon Native leaders as one rare, significant advance for the protection of Natives and their territories...

A tug of war between the Ethiopian government and human rights activists has spurred a tense standoff between the two

ICTMN Staff
August 21, 2011
The people of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have been fighting in what has become known as the first eco-revolution in the world...
In 1893 a group of indigenous Aymara Bolivian men traveled to the United States so that they could be put on display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Columbian Exposition, which ce...
A reality television series filmed in Machiguenga communities in the Peruvian Amazon misrepresented the tribe and reinforced stereotypes, says an anthropologist who has studied the...
Sara Shahriari
August 18, 2011
On August 15 several hundred people from lowland Bolivia began a 350 mile, month long march toward the government’s seat in La Paz to protest a highway that will cut through a larg...

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