#indigenous land rights

[intersectionalpraxis]

After a spring 2023 research mission, Amnesty is expressing concern about reports of heavy-handed police raids, aggressive and intrusive surveillance tactics, intimidation, arbitrary arrests and detention, racial discrimination, and criminalization of pipeline opponents.  The conduct amounts to "a concerted effort by the state to remove Wet'suwet'en land defenders from their ancestral territory to allow pipeline construction to proceed," the non-governmental organization says in its report. The report says significant police and private security presence has imposed heavy surveillance and control, where Wet'suwet'en are regularly followed, filmed and photographed.

RCMP raids enforcing a court-ordered injunction against blockades and activist camps were disproportionate, deploying semi-automatic weapons, helicopters and dogs against unarmed activists, the report says.Amnesty met with officials from Coastal GasLink and the company said it followed all procedures in line with international human rights standards and domestic consultation and permitting processes, Gebresilassie said.In a statement, parent company TC Energy cited Coastal GasLink's agreements with 20 First Nations along the pipeline route and equity option agreements with 17 of them as evidence of its respect for Indigenous rights. It said it has taken "extraordinary measures" to consult with all Indigenous groups, including the hereditary chiefs. Security measures were necessary given "significant acts of violence," the company said.

The RCMP has racist foundations -they were created to enforce laws that terrorized, suppressed, and forced Indigenous people out from their communities, and within -and they still continue to do this. They also, despite denying it so wholeheartedly; are guilty of racial profiling, have systemic racism in its ranks right now, and have biases and/or have ingrained anti-Indigenous racism.

Thus, it confounds me every single time I react their statements (or lack thereof) about being insistent they aren't violating Indigenous people's rights. I am not at all surprised Amnesty found out that they -like their colonizing buddies in the gas company -were committing human rights violations. This pipeline should have NEVER been built to begin with, and I need more people to know just how disgraceful the RCMP truly is. My solidarity is with Wet'suwet'en land defenders.

#feminist #feminism #social justice #indigenous #indigenous land rights #indigenouslandback #canada #current events #indigenous solidarity #rcmp #human rights #human rights violations #amnesty international #climate justice #colonial violence #colonialism #settler colonialism

[alicemccombs]

#brazil supreme court #indigenous land rights #climateactionnow #healearth

[humanrightsconnected]

Pictured here are the San peoples who are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa, where they have lived for more than 20 000 years. Yet, they have faced many years of marginalization and exclusion. Read an article by The Big Issue where the environmental activist Gakemotho Satau discusses the importance of fighting for the rights of the San peoples. 

👉 https://bit.ly/3rRNkiq

#san peoples #san #indigenous people #indigenous peoples rights #indigenous land rights #land rights #cultural rights #human rights #human activist #activism #conservation #environment #environmental defenders #botswana #namibia #angola #zambia #zimbabwe #lesotho #south africa #southern africa #africa

[indigenouspeopleday]

Tŝilhqot'in Nation Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Historic Indigenous Land Rights Case.

Hybrid press briefing sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations entitled "Tŝilhqot'in Nation Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Historic Indigenous Land Rights Case".

Watch the Press Briefing: Tŝilhqot'in Nation Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Historic Indigenous Land Rights Case

#press briefing #tribal groups #Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations #Tŝilhqot'in Nation #Indigenous Land Rights #Land Rights Case

[olowan-waphiya]

please do not ever forget that the “americas” are stolen land. that we survive despite genocide. that we still exist despite continuing colonialism. solidarity with indigenous people around the world.

#cupid.txt #land back #usa #indigenous rights #native americans

[violottie]

"Ps/ this is not a permanent withdrawal or a ceasefire and the Israeli army can get back to the heart of the city in a minute as they did in Gaza city - Alshifa’a hospital massacre. This video is the first in a series showing khanyounis city after the destruction." from Bisan, 10/Apr/2024:

#trending #humanity #human rights #indigenous land #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #keep talking about palestine #dont stop talking about palestine

[climatecalling]

Brazil’s government has begun removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The Brazilian intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal was to return the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacaja lands in Para state to the original peoples. ... “The presence of strangers on Indigenous land threatens the integrity of the Indigenous [people] and causes other damages, such as the destruction of forests,” the agency said in its statement. It added that about 1,600 families lived illegally in that region with some involved in illegal activities such as cattle raising and gold mining. “They also destroy native vegetation.” ... Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has begun rebuilding environment protection agencies and created eight protected areas for Indigenous people. Soon after the beginning of his administration, his government expelled thousands of goldminers from the massive Yanomami Indigenous territory in the northern state of Roraima. State and federal authorities this year also dislodged landgrabbers from the Alto Rio Guama territory. They threatened forcible expulsion of those settlers failing to leave, and pledged to eliminate access roads and irregular installations. Nearly all of the illegal residents departed voluntarily.

#indigenous rights #indigenous #brazil #lula #indigenous land

[no-passaran]

Do you have 1 minute? Add your name, surname and email to send a pre-written email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister, other Indian government ministers, and the companies vying to build the project:

#shompen #great nicobar island #indigenous #india #genocide #stop genocide #andaman and nicobar islands #asia #human rights #💬 #stateless nations #indigenous rights #land back

[reasonsforhope]

“When the Brazilian state of Amazonas put the responsibility of protecting one of the world’s largest freshwater fish in the hands of the indigenous inhabitants, it saved the beast from an inevitable extinction.

The giant arapaima, a piranha-proof river monster capable of growing to 10-feet in length and weighing 440 pounds, was almost wiped out by illegal fishing in the 1990s, but two decades of conservation means the ‘Terminator of the River’ is back...

Regardless of their danger, they are also known by the name ‘Cod of the Amazon’, and disregarding a ban on arapaima fishing, their numbers have been plummeting due to the demand for the firm white meat with few bones.

The arapaima disappeared from much of its historic range, and at the dawn of the new millennium, fewer than 3,000 were estimated to exist.

Taking a different model to most conservation methods in the Amazon, João Campos-Silva, an ecologist at the Institutio Juruá, decided to work with local communities to preserve arapaima fishing, and to help people realize the kind of money they could make by protecting the environment.

“Conservation should mean a better life for locals,” Campos-Silva told CNN. “So in this case conservation started to make sense. Now local people say ‘we need to protect the environment, we need to protect nature, because more biodiversity means a better life...'”

According to Campos-Silva, there are now 330,000 arapaima living in 1,358 lakes in 35 managed areas, with over 400 communities involved in managing them. The income generated from fishing rights is pouring into those communities, who are using it to fund medical infrastructure, schools, and more.” -via Good News Network, 10/26/21

#amazon #brazil #indigenous #indigenous people #land rights #fishing #commercial fishing #arapaima #conservation #good news #hope

[thenuclearmallard]

Very important. Please read.

#indigenous #culture #indigenous russia #indigenous russian #important #russia #fypシ #fypage #colonization #landback #land back #indigenous rights #indigenous people #ethnic minorities #russian colonization #russian genocide #russian imperialism #siberian indigenous #indigenous siberian #siberian #siberia #fypツ #important read

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

#palestine #human rights #free palestine #israel #Gaza #colonialism #anti colonialism #colonial violence #colonization #settler colonialism #military industrial complex #indigenous rights #land back

[fixing-bad-posts]

at my core i love to see mlm relationships and victims of stolen land making a mockery out of the police

#go to protests! #fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #cut-up poetry #cut up poetry #land back #stolen land #mlm relationships #gay rights #indigenous rights

[humanrightsconnected]

It’s Indigenous People's Day! As we honor this significant day, learn about 14 influential Native American figures 👇!

#indigenous people’s day #indigenous #indigenous rights #indigenous women #indigenous peoples #indigenous people #indigenous culture #native #natives #native american #native americans #ndn #american indian #first nations #land back #landback

[mrsblackruby]

Why are some of y’all putting so much of your focus on arguing whether or not settlers should be forced to leave a colony they ‘forcibly’ inflicted on the indigenous rather than just assuring indigenous people have human rights and equal engagement in how the land around em gets to be evolved cuz they’re involved with changing environments no matter what. Why are some of y’all so scared of land back that you actively just chose genocide, pollution, and endless imperialistic efforts instead. Like can’t you see there’s alternative outcomes that can become reality and that I personally think should and want to become reality. Whatever that fear mongering shit is a waste of time to me, in the way of all of our actual liberation it comes off really self defeating to me so I’m glad I do my best not to partake in such affairs. End Apartheid.

Indigenous rights and immigration rights aren’t opposed actually they are interlocking and both important to achieve a society that values free movement

#anarchism #leftblr #land back #anti colonialism #indigenous #free palestine #palestine #climate change #anarchist #freeblr #Decolonization #indigineous rights #immigration rights #israel

[jadeseadragon]

Take action to make your voice heard ahead of the November 13, 2023 deadline by signing our petition to the US Army.

#dapl #standing rock #water is life #petition #indigenous land #indigenous rights

[parasocial-work]

According to Cobb, “You have to build the new society within the shell of the old,” and Dishgamu Humboldt can provide a blueprint for what a better world—the one being born—might look like. As parts of the world flood and burn, perhaps projects like this can show us how the land and the people can heal from the wounds of the past, and grow a better future, together.

#landback #land back #give land back #indigenous rights #indigenous activism #indigenous resistance