Posts tagged human rights
Campaign for Nature condemns recent violence and evictions in Tanzania

Campaign For Nature

June 20, 2022
The Campaign for Nature condemns the horrific reports of Tanzanian security forces violently evicting peoples from their ancestral lands and territories in the Ngorongoro District. The reported shootings, arrests of community leaders, and hundreds of people being forcibly driven from their homes is abhorrent.

We call for the immediate cessation of the violence, intimidation and evictions; for the perpetrators of violence to be held accountable; and for the rights of the Maasai to their lands and to their internationally recognized Indigenous rights to be respected.

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Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, violence, human rightsMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, IPLCs, Maasai, Indigenous rights, land rights, human rights, Tanzania
Brazil’s Bolsonaro vowed to work with Indigenous people. Now he’s investigating them

Mongabay

May 4, 2021
A week since the Climate Leaders Summit, where Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to work with Indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon, his government is being accused of acting to intimidate them.

At least two prominent Indigenous leaders in the country have recently been summoned for police questioning for criticizing the government, raising concerns from human rights organizations, politicians, celebrities and academics about Bolsonaro’s abuse of power and the undermining of freedom of expression.

Sônia Guajajara, one of the top Brazilian Indigenous activists and head of the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) — the country’s main Indigenous association — was called on April 26 to appear before the federal police to testify in a probe for allegedly “slandering” Bolsonaro’s government.

“The persecution by this government is unacceptable and absurd. They will not silence us,” Guajajara said on an April 30 Twitter post.

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Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, South America, Indigenous rightsMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, human rights, Brazil