Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice
When it comes to supporting Indigenous women’s rights, we often face assumptions about how the word “feminism” clashes with cosmovision or buen vivir as feminism is seen as coming from…
Healing Justice: A New Pathway for Health and Wellbeing within Climate Justice
“Healing justice is a framework that recognizes the impact of trauma and violence on individuals and communities and names collective processes that can help heal and transform these forces. In…
Indigenous Women Walking Together Towards Change
The history of the struggle for our individual and collective rights goes far back, inscribing itself in the long-standing demand of Indigenous Women to participate fully and effectively in decision-making…
Indigenous Peoples Fight for Collective Rights as Governments Erode Environmental and Community Protections During a Pandemic
As governments use the pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental and human rights, indigenous-led networks are mobilizing to advocate for health equity and community safety. Learn how Cultural Survival and their…
Indigenous Women Offer a Vision for ‘Just Transition’ in the Face of Converging Crises of Climate Change and Covid-19
Story by Rucha Chitnis As the world reels from the ripple effects of Covid-19, frontline indigenous women’s groups in Canada are connecting the dots between centuries of colonialism, destruction of…
Arctic Indigenous Fund Invests in Movement Making Across the Circumpolar North
by Dewey Kk’ołeyo Putyuk Hoffman, Arctic Indigenous Fund Advisor I volunteered to share about our group because it brings me joy. My intention is to describe this experience from a…
Indigenous Led Funds Unite: Observations on Pawanka Fund’s Indigenous Led Fund Meeting in Sampi Territories
by April Ingham, Executive Director, Pacific Peoples’ Partnership (PPP) and Member of the Indigenous Led Funds Working Group hosted by IFIP On behalf of the peoples of the South Pacific…
Land is Life Launches Indigenous-Led Security Fund in Sub-Saharan Africa to Address Growing Threats
By Land is Life staff Indigenous people in Africa are under increased threat, according to a 2019 Minority Rights Group International report. Numerous Indigenous communities across the African continent are…
Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites: Under Pressure
By Rachel Smith, IFIP Program Coordinator “Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories,…