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Coronavirus impact on world’s indigenous, goes well beyond health threat

21st May 2020
According to the new UN independent expert on the rights of indigenous peoples, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on the world’s indigenous peoples that stretches well beyond the immediate threat to their health. SOURCE : UN News

As COVID-19 takes off in Latin America, Amazon indigenous groups fear the worst

12th May 2020
‘There are no doctors and no health infrastructure in these communities. There is no education, no phone connections, no computers, no internet.’ SOURCE: The New Humanitarian by Paula Dupraz-Dobias

Farmers walk from N. Sumatra to Jakarta to demand Jokowi settle land dispute

6th May 2020
Hundreds of farmers have walked thousands of kilometers from their homes in Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra, to the capital city. SOURCE: Nina A. Loasana The Jakarta Post

How indigenous people in the Amazon are coping with the coronavirus pandemic

28th Apr 2020
Growing fears that COVID-19 will wreak havoc across the Amazon. SOURCE: The Conversation by Nina Moeller and JM Pedersen

35,000 Ugandans left homeless as private firms share Kiryandongo land

2nd Mar 2020
The government says the contentious territory was empty space and unoccupied public land but residents claim they hold it under customary ownership. (Source: Daily Monitor)

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