indigenous rights

Over 4,500 square miles of ocean will be protected off the California coast. It will also be managed in partnership with the Indigenous groups that fought to create it.

A group of nine Indigenous Peruvian young leaders are spending four days learning new technologies to help monitor and protect their Indigenous lands from illegal miners, loggers and narco-traffickers.

Indigenous groups and human rights activists worry that the violence that raged through their communities in the 1970s and 1980s is making a comeback.