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Blog: Centre for International Policy Studies
On January 13, the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) held presidential and legislative elections, keeping the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the presidency with 40.05% of the vote going to incumbent vice-president William Lai. Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) …
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Experience in New Zealand illustrates that cultural integration of indigenous peoples can lead to stronger outcomes of representation in the military. For countries like Australia and Canada, a shift in recruitment strategies begins with cultural awareness.
Blog: Global Voices
Nepal has seen many successes when it comes to wildlife conservation. However, Nepal's Indigenous communities have endured a series of human rights abuses due to oppressive conservation policies.
Blog: Global Voices
The camp started in 2004, during the first presidential term of Lula da Silva, to press for land demarcation in Brazil. Twenty years later, they say things haven't changed so much.
Blog: Global Voices
The indigenous people of Sakhalin are now present in small numbers, they are named Nivkhs, Ainu, Uilta. A documentary shows one of the dying villages, Rybnoe, where Nivkhs live.
Blog: Global Voices
The funds go towards projects that fall within Guyana's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), intended to drive national development while maintaining the country's low deforestation rate.
Blog: POLLEN Blog – POLLEN
Codes of conduct and contracts for scientific research should protect vulnerable populations, such as Indigenous peoples, from exploitation and promote their role in research. But with the San in Southern Africa, I have found that they can also backfire and even oppress them. By Stasja Koot Ethical rules for scientific research are important to prevent … Read more Ethics research codes and contracts may oppress vulnerable and Indigenous groups
Blog: Global Voices
"The freer we are as individuals, the freer we are as a people."
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Australia is a colonial country. The resulting unresolved grievances and challenges must be grappled with, but engagement between original and First Nation peoples can be a vehicle for Australia's enlarged engagement in global politics.
Blog: Global Voices
Baka people have lived in the forests of southeast Cameroon since time immemorial and are known to be the first custodians of the forest. Their lifestyle and livelihood depend on the forest.
Blog: Global Voices
The UN has instituted the period between 2022 and 2032 as International Decade for Indigenous Languages. In an interview for GV's partner Amazônia Real, professor and researcher Altaci Rubim, from the Kokama people, talks about the importance of it.
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
The return of four skulls of indigenous Ainu people from Australia to Japan in May 2023 sheds disturbing light on the history of the trade of human remains across national borders. It also highlights new international steps being taken to redress the wrongs of the past and return the dead to their homelands.
Blog: Global Voices
The film recounts the struggle of the Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people, in Rondônia state in northern Brazil, to defend the territory against invasions from land grabbers and farmers.
Blog: LSE Human Rights
Ameera Es-Sabar discusses the concept of silent violence in the context of Canada, drawing parallels between Canada's exclusionary approaches towards its Indigenous inhabitants and its (lack of) response to ongoing events in Palestine and Israel. By highlighting similarities in Canada's approaches towards Indigenous peoples both at home and abroad, and its contrasting responses to events in … Continued
Blog: Global Voices
Many people are beginning to forget all the rich cultural and historical aspects of Yoruba. If the language is to thrive, its culture and identity must be visible.