Pope in Canada to apologise for abuse of Indigenous children in church schools
‘This is a trip of penance,’ says Pope Francis, ahead of mass to be held during five-day trip Pope Francis landed in Canada on Sunday...
Category : Indigenous peoples
Pope Francis to visit Canada in ‘pilgrimage of penance’ over church-run schools
Pope will meet Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors, thousands of whom were taken from families Pope Francis will spend the next week on a...
How a conservative US network undermined Indigenous energy rights in Canada
Internal documents explain why oil and gas interests would benefit from a key Indigenous declaration being ‘defeated’ A US-based libertarian coalition has spent years pressuring...
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts
Court of appeal judgment allows £5bn lawsuit against mining giant BHP by more than 200,000 victims of 2015 Mariana dam disaster More than 200,000 victims...
Venezuela Indigenous leader’s killing terrifies defenders of Amazon lands
Virgilio Trujillo Arana, who led community defense from criminal groups and illegal mining, was gunned down in broad daylight Virgilio Trujillo Arana knew that he...
Ecuador deal reached to end weeks of deadly protests and strikes
Agreement between government and Indigenous leaders includes fuel price cut and mining restrictions Ecuador’s government and the country’s main Indigenous group have reached an agreement...
Indigenous leader who defended the Amazon shot dead in Venezuela
Virgilio Trujillo Arana, a 38-year-old indigenous Uwottuja man, was shot in the head three times in the city of Puerto Ayacucho A Venezuelan indigenous leader...
‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
Building work is quiet, for now, on £200m project that pits different visions of South Africa’s future against one another Smoke curls into the air,...
Canada: trial of white men who killed two Indigenous hunters in 2020 begins
Roger Bilodeau and his son Anthony Bilodeau believed that Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal were thieves, court hears Two white Canadian men followed and then...
Tanzania’s Maasai appeal to west to stop eviction for conservation plans
Thousands of Indigenous people sign letter to UK, US and EU protesting at appropriation of land for tourist safaris and hunting Thousands of Maasai pastoralists...
