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MIFEE: Racist agribusiness land grabs in West Papua reported to UN

MIFEE: Racist agribusiness land grabs in West Papua reported to UN

A coalition of organisations has requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commission to take action under its Early Warning and Urgent Action procedures to address the dire situation bei ...

#IdleNoMore fighting for indigenous sovereignty in Canada

#IdleNoMore fighting for indigenous sovereignty in Canada

Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to t ...

Making Rohingya Statelessness

Making Rohingya Statelessness

The history of how the Rohingya Muslims of Arakan State in western Burma (Myanmar) lost their status and citizenship and became stateless under the Burmese military dictatorship. ...

Our Land is Gone
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Our Land is Gone

The Malind Anim tribe in Zanegi Village, Merauke, Papua, Indonesia are hunter gatherers who rely on the forest for they livelihoods. But in the village of Zanegi, times have changed. ...

INDONESIA: MIFEE: The stealthy face of conflict in West Papua

INDONESIA: MIFEE: The stealthy face of conflict in West Papua

West Papua, the easternmost island under Indonesia's control, is a land beset by troubles. Rarely a week goes by without news of some new tragedy in a relentless conflict that has endured and evolved over fifty years ...

300,000 Dead West Papuans: A Fair Price For Our Golems?

300,000 Dead West Papuans: A Fair Price For Our Golems?

To most so called civilized people, the land is nothing more than a commodity, to be exploited and ultimately discarded in the name of Western ‘progress’ and greed. The human cost of progress is not only ...

Oil palm plantation cheats indigenous Papuans in outrageous land deals

Oil palm plantation cheats indigenous Papuans in outrageous land deals

An oil palm plantation paid tribe members in Indonesia's Papua as little as 65 cents per hectare for their land. "Papuans, some of the poorest citizens in Indonesia, are being utterly exploited in legally questionabl ...

Namorong: Media Freedom Day Address

Namorong: Media Freedom Day Address

If we are to talk about media freedom, we are to talk about creating enabling mechanisms for the purposes of defending Our People and promoting and preserving Our Papua New Guinean Ways. What’s the point of ha ...

Deterioration of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Security in Indonesia

Deterioration of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Security in Indonesia

The Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC) wishes to bring the Council’s attention to the deterioration of farmers’ and indigenous peoples’ food security in Indonesia as the country’s laws and ...

Ethiopia’s Tribes Cry For Help

Ethiopia’s Tribes Cry For Help

The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people. Many live a simple existence, l ...

Noongar Protestors Make Stand Against Proposed Land Grab

Noongar Protestors Make Stand Against Proposed Land Grab

About 50 police – including officers on horseback – have again descended on Heirisson Island in Perth to remove protesters opposing a native title deal. The protesters have been camping on the island fo ...

Vietnam farmer a hero after shootout with police

Vietnam farmer a hero after shootout with police

Instead of drawing public condemnation, last month’s rare violence by fish farmers trying to hold onto leased land in the northern port city of Hai Phong has made a national hero of family ringleader Doan Van ...

709 Malaysia, This is Our Land
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709 Malaysia, This is Our Land

This video is not meant for create chaos but to unite people who against violence and abuse of power... ...

Chinese Farmer Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Forced Eviction
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Chinese Farmer Sets Himself on Fire to Protest Forced Eviction

A Chinese farmer set himself on fire in a desperate attempt to stop his home from forced demolition by local Chinese authorities. This latest self-immolation incident has attracted national attention, as profit-drive ...