The newly elected president of the International Union of Psychological Science, Dr...

In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, Peru’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled that an Amazonian indigenous community could limit outsiders’ access to its territory ...

A first-of-its-kind guide complete with sample legal language is now available for tribal governments to adopt or amend their laws to recognize the rights of all their citizens, in...

More than fifteen communities in the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park, known by its Spanish acronym TIPNIS, are blocking government access to their towns...

When James Anaya , the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples was finishing up his tour of the United States last spring, he received a packet of letters from hig...

Venezuelan officials have denied initial reports of a massacre of Yanomami people by illegal gold miners that allegedly occurred in early July and which, because of the remoteness ...

For some time, a welter of scientific data has indicated that climate changes would be dramatic and include extreme weather events...

Illegal gold miners from Brazil may have killed dozens of Yanomami people in a remote area of the Venezuelan Amazon, according to reports from an indigenous organization there...

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ruled that the construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam can resume, for now...

As the boat carried our group from a coastal airstrip in eastern Panama to the Yandup Island Lodge, in the autonomous territory of the Guna Indians, I admired the timeless beauty o...