#TuesdayColumn: Between farmers clearing land with guns and fire in #Brazil, and occupational forces committing #EthnicCleansing, it's not hard to imagine that #LandOwnership might not have been the best idea... #IndigenousLandRights #politics #writing
This Dirt of Mine:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/this-dirt-of-mine/
These efforts, including a proposed amendment to #Brazil 's Constitution that would legalize Marco Temporal, threaten to undermine #IndigenousLandRights and accelerate environmental destruction in the #Amazon.
As Brazil stands at a crossroads, the international community’s support and vigilance are crucial in ensuring that Indigenous rights are upheld and the Amazon rainforest is preserved for future generations.
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The #Ogiek people fight #eviction from their traditional homes in the #Mau forest #Kenya.
'The latest wave of evictions, which began on November 2, affected more than 1,000 of the Ogiek, a community that has been predominantly hunter-gatherers for centuries in the area in and around the forest.
“As I know it myself, we have lived here for 174 years,” Wilson Ngusilo, a chairperson of the Ogiek council in Narok County in southwest Kenya, told Al Jazeera. “I buried my father on this land at the age of 105 years, and I am personally 69 years old myself. I have known this as my home and don’t know where I am supposed to go.”
#IndigenousLandRights
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/24/kenyas-ogiek-people-fight-on-against-eviction-from-mau-forest
#Brazil supreme court rules in favor of #IndigenousLandRights in historic win
Court voted against #agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/brazil-supreme-court-indigenous-land-rights-win
Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj8wm/uncontacted-tribe-threatened-i
#indonesia #Environment #uncontactedtribes #landrights #Indigenouslandrights #HUMANRIGHTS
"The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds." #lithium #mining #IndigenousLandRights #EV #water #waterislife https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
