Debates indígenas in English

10/10/2024

DEBATES INDÍGENAS | October 2024

🇵🇪 Coloniality of power and territorial self-governance
By Roberto Espinoza
https://bit.ly/3YmBf5K

🇧🇴 Forest fires devastate Indigenous communities in Bolivia
By Tora Jensen -International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)- & Miguel Vargas Delgado -Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social - CEJIS-
https://bit.ly/3BFM4qr

🇨🇴 Ethnic Chapter: the unfulfilled promises of peace in Colombia
By Asdrúbal Plaza Calvo
https://bit.ly/480rHAe

🇲🇽 Mexico: constitutional reform on Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights
By Elisa Cruz Rueda
https://bit.ly/3NpDJtq

🇳🇮 Nicaraguan Indigenous People in exile in Costa Rica
By Kiki
https://bit.ly/400ECAd

28/08/2024

📢 New Special!

🇨🇴 “It is important for social movements to be integrated into institutional frameworks”
Interview with Patricia Tobón Yagarí
https://bit.ly/4fZDa6X

🇦🇷 Case of Lhaka Honhat vs. Argentine State: Four Years After the Inter-American Court’s Ruling
By Morita Carrasco
https://bit.ly/3X6fFQK

🇬🇹 In defense of democracy: the role of Indigenous communities and authorities in Guatemalan politics
By Santiago Bastos Amigo
https://bit.ly/4dGRwaF

🇵🇦 Overcrowding and climate change in Panama: relocation of a Guna Community from their island to the mainland
By Bernal Damián Castillo Díaz
https://bit.ly/472QdjY

🇨🇴 Undermining the right to consultation: the case of the struggles and resistances of Los Negros de Cañaverales
By Daniela Saffie Budnik
https://bit.ly/4dIDwNQ

28/06/2024

📢Special June 2024

🇧🇴 The long journey of the Autonomous Government of Ch’alla
By Sergio Vásquez Rojas

🇳🇮 Nicaragua: conflict resolution, peace, and development*
By Larry Salomón Pedro

🎙️ Decolonizing communications
By Kathia Carrillo

🇲🇽 Municipal elections in Chiapas: the takeover by organized crime groups
By Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor

🌎 On the road to the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum
By María Eugenia Carrizo

👉🏾Read the full articles: https://debatesindigenas.org/en/

27/05/2024

May 2024

🇦🇷 Javier Milei and Indigenous Peoples
By Silvina Ramírez
https://bit.ly/44UMF1Y

🇲🇽 Humanitarian emergency in Chiapas
By Writer for Peace
https://bit.ly/4bybcwy

🇨🇴 Indigenous People and drug trafficking
By Efraín Jaramillo
https://bit.ly/3UQ9Oy9

🇪🇨 Ecuador: the fascist face of extractivism
By Pablo Ortiz-T.
https://bit.ly/3yqmm7G

🇧🇷 Under the shadows of dictatorship
By María de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara
https://bit.ly/3QYwICp

23/04/2024

🇨🇦 Despite its global reputation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Canada has a strong contributing extractive sector. Much of its mining activity is concentrated in British Columbia, where 62% of all Canadian coal is produced. The new coal plant project that will produce between 775,000 and 825,000 tons has members of Indigenous communities in the region at odds with one another. The Tenas mine threatens to contaminate the Telkwa River, affect salmon and reindeer populations and put the ecosystem at risk.

🖋️By Sidney Coles

Despite its global reputation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Canada has a strong contributing extractive sector. Much of its mining activity is concentrated in British Columbia, where 62% of all Canadian coal is produced. The new coal plant project that will produce between 775,000 and 825,0...

12/04/2024

📢 International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) launches "The Indigenous World 2024" 🗓️ Tuesday 16 April at 13:15 (NYC time) during the 23rd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN headquarters in New York City.

📔 This 38th annual edition documents the human rights situation of and the developments they have experienced in 2023 with a focus on Indigenous Peoples’ rights. The Indigenous World 2024 reports these trends through 54 regional and country reports and 17 reports on international processes.

🌐 The Indigenous World 2024 will be available online both in English and Spanish on 16 April here: https://bit.ly/3jwR8k3

👉 More details about the launch event to follow.

16/01/2024

🇨🇷 Costa Rica is a small country in Central America known for its tradition of political stability. It has been acknowledged as a democratic nation, navigating exceptionally amid the concert of instability in other Latin American nations. In this context, the three branches of the State have undertaken a series of initiatives that mark progress in recognizing the rights of its Afro-descendant population.

✍🏽 By Diana Senior Angulo

🌐 https://bit.ly/47bte4I

11/01/2024

🇧🇴 Despite the resistance of community members, fires have devastated Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Bolivian Amazon. The fires have affected their food sources, access to clean water, and destroyed their homes. Beyond climate change, the issue is also structural: the government implements national policies that promote extractive economies. Now, communities know that fires will be a new excuse to encroach on their territories. The challenge of how to rebuild life, rethink traditional practices, and reclaim ancestral knowledge after the fires persists.

By Daniela Vidal - Fundación Solón

Despite the resistance of community members, fires have devastated Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Bolivian Amazon. The fires have affected their food sources, access to clean water, and destroyed their homes. Beyond climate change, the issue is also structural: the government impl...

02/01/2024

🌎 After eight years at the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (IACHR), Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño retired on December 31, 2023. The Panamanian lawyer specialized in human rights was elected in 2016, served as Chair in 2019 and Vice-Chair between 2022 and 2023. She is also Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples, Children and Adolescents, as well as Rapporteur for Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

🎙️ Read the interview!

After eight years at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño will retire on December 31, 2023. The Panamanian lawyer specialized in human rights was elected in 2016, served as Chair in 2019 and Vice-Chair between 2022 and 2023. She is also Rapporteur f...

26/12/2023

December 2023

🌎 "It is crucial to use the tools available to ensure that States comply with their international commitments"
Interview with Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño - CIDH
https://bit.ly/41zotkc

🇧🇴 Living and surviving among ashes: fires in the Amazon of Bolivia
By Daniela Vidal - Fundación Solón
https://bit.ly/41Bk2VU

🇨🇷 Afro-Costa Rican Population in the context of the International Decade for People of African Descent
By Diana Senior Angulo
https://bit.ly/47bte4I

🇲🇽 “Our fight challenges the stigmatization of Black people”
Interview with Yolanda Camacho
https://bit.ly/3RBOomP

18/12/2023

🌎 Born in the heat of the conquest and the slave trade, Black communities in the Americas have developed their own cultural practices that differentiate them from the rest of the population. Their music, their religiosity and their joy are the most representative characteristics of 170 million people who make up a transnational native community. After the advances in national jurisprudence, it is now the turn of international law to recognize the advancement of the collective rights of Afro-descendant peoples. The Black peoples of the world demand a declaration of rights on the recognition, justice and ethno-development of our Afro-descendant peoples.

✍🏾 By Jhon Antón Sánchez

Born in the heat of the conquest and the slave trade, Black communities in the Americas have developed their own cultural practices that differentiate them from the rest of the population. Their music, their religiosity and their joy are the most representative characteristics of 170 million people....

12/12/2023

Afro-Colombian communities in the Pacific region account for 95.3% of the 5,600,000 hectares of their ancestral territories. Collective land use, traditional celebrations and ancestral knowledge predominate in these lands.

Despite being a peripheral region, in recent years ancestral territories have been highly coveted by extractive industries, which has attracted illegal armed groups that impose their rules through violence. In this context, the construction of interculturality and interethnic dialogues are a form of resistance to extractivism and dispossession.

✍🏽 By Marcela Velasco, Fernando Castrillón & Alonso Tobón - Colectivo de trabajo Jenzera

🌐 Read the full article: https://bit.ly/46upBGs

06/12/2023

📢TODAY- side event

A Call from : weaving a Human Rights-based approach in loss and damage

🗓️ Wednesday 6 December

🕦 18:30-20:00 Dubai time (Gulf Standard Time)

📎 English livestream via: https://bit.ly/415JzGH

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact ONAMIAP, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities and Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North (CSIPN)

28/11/2023

The history of the Americas was forever shaped by the massive introduction of Africans as slaves, who were smuggled across the Atlantic trade routes. However, these ships brought more than "just black bodies" reduced to commodities. These bodies carried with them a rich ancestral heritage and diverse epistemologies that, when reinterpreted in the context of the diaspora, allowed Black people to establish communities and institutions based on their own territorial principles and specific ways of relating to nature.

✍🏾 By Davi Pereira Junior

The history of the Americas was forever shaped by the massive introduction of Africans as slaves, who were smuggled across the Atlantic trade routes. However, these ships brought more than “just black bodies" reduced to commodities. These bodies carried with them a rich ancestral heritage and dive...

24/11/2023

📢 Special Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean

🌎 Geographies of maroonage in the Americas
By Davi Pereira Junior
https://bit.ly/47opZYD

🇨🇴 Afro-Colombians and interculturality in the Pacific Region
By Marcela Velasco, Fernando Castrillón & Alonso Tobón - de trabajo Jenzera
https://bit.ly/46upBGs

🌎 Towards an Afro-descendant Peoples’ Declaration of Rights
By Jhon Antón Sánchez
https://bit.ly/3MWm8tB

🇲🇽 “Afro-Mexicans have always been relegated to the last rung”
Interview with Rosy Castro Salinas
https://bit.ly/46sjR0a

🇧🇴 Invisibility and participation in Afro-Bolivian communities
By Paola Yañez-Inofuentes -
https://bit.ly/3QMMO0S

🇨🇴 “The relationship between the Raizales and the Colombian State has been conflictive”
Interview with Sally Ann García Taylor
https://bit.ly/3QRdu0y

🇳🇮 Creoles in Nicaragua: self-determination and resistance
By Alexandrina Henríquez
https://bit.ly/3G9VmKt

21/11/2023

🇵🇪 Alberto Chirif Tirado is a prominent Peruvian anthropologist who has devoted his life to the Amazon and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples. His work and diverse interests are attested to in a large number of research projects and books on Indigenous Peoples' rights, territories, memory and history, regional vocabulary, Indigenous cuisine and Amazonian literature.

An exceptional witness to the Amazon and the history of Peru, Alberto’s career has encompassed the differing moments that have marked the transformations and course of his country, of Amazonian anthropology and of the Amazonian Indigenous movement.

🎙️ By Renato Pita

Alberto Chirif Tirado (Lima, 1943) is a prominent Peruvian anthropologist who has devoted his life to the Amazon and the Amazonian Indigenous Peoples. His work and diverse interests are attested to in a large number of research projects and books on Indigenous Peoples' rights, territories, memory an...

07/11/2023

🇻🇪 🇧🇷 While miners are blamed for the destruction of the forests, this gold fever would not exist without the lavish consumption of sheikhs, influencers, rappers, footballers, brokers, Hollywood actors and famous singers. Following the rise in the price of gold during Covid-19, Central Banks and speculators have further boosted this demand.

In Brazil and Venezuela, the land area affected by mining is increasing rapidly and the presence of gold miners threatens the indigenous communities living near the deposits.

✍🏾By Luis Salas Rodríguez - Wataniba Comunicación

🌐 https://bit.ly/46GQPdy

31/10/2023

🇬🇫 On the edge of French territory, in north-western Guiana, the Indigenous Kali’na village of Atopo W+p+ is resisting to safeguard its territory against a power plant. In violation of Indigenous rights, the French state ceded part of their lands to HDF Energy company and mobilised a large number of armed gendarmes to carry out the project.

The Kali’nas warriors maintain a strong opposition and are urging for the plant to be relocated.

🖋️By Pierre Auzerau & Mélissa Sjabere

📲 https:/bit.ly/3ZUfUzt

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