In December 1994, the United Nations proclaimed 1995–2004 the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. In Latin America—where indigenous peoples comprise some 10 percent of the ...

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In many parts of the region, big companies take over lands for mining or farming. This forces farmers and indigenous people ...

Given their courage during the war between Paraguay and Bolivia in the 1930s, the Maká people were given a piece of land that ...

The Permanent Roundtable of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations (MPC) warned that an indefinite number of members of the ...

Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in poverty. Wealth often stays with a few powerful families. Big ...

The 112th IUCN Council Meeting takes place in the historic colonial city of La Antigua Guatemala, from 28 to 30 January 2025.

Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous people from the Amazonian state of Para on Monday continued the protests that began two ...