People across Latin America are demanding greater political participation. Some countries, including Colombia and Chile, have responded by involving citizens in the making of their constitutions.
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As toxic water continues to spill from tailings ponds across mining developments, decades of scientific research provides evidence of how wildlife will be affected.
Water sharing arrangements have the potential to enhance water security, but they require strong communication and co-ordination between community leaders in addition to adequate financial support.
If the 2023 referendum fails, it will at least in part be due to the shortcomings and spoiled hopes of 1967.
With less adherence to party politics and a broadly progressive viewpoint, young people will play a key role in the outcome of the Voice to Parliament referendum.
Thousands of demonstrators have descended on Lima amid violent clashes with police. The protest movement could be taking cues from earlier mobilizations in neighboring Bolivia.
As protected and conserved areas increase, an equity-based approach that respects Indigenous rights can help bring the transformative changes we need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
Danielle Smith’s grasp of Indigenous issues seems rooted not in genuine allyship and justice but in the appropriation of Indigenous experiences to advance white grievance politics.
A different future will not be possible without reverence, respect, reciprocity and responsibility towards the Earth. On this issue, Indigenous Peoples have a lot to share.
Geographic, cultural and political identity are all part of being Indigenous.
To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
Questions about illegal surveillance photography and powerful facial recognition technology suggest updating the police training manual and the Policing Act itself should be a priority.
Like Australia, Chile is facing mounting environmental pressures, such as an escalating water crisis. If the constitution is approved in September it’ll deliver profound changes to the country.
Settler Canadians have a responsibility to build respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous nations on our shared geographic space. This relationship starts with land restitution.
The deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil is at its peak, with 2022 breaking all records. Deforestation threatens human rights.
The DIALOG network forms a bridge between scientific and Indigenous knowledge. It renews the relationship between the university and the Indigenous world, which has for too long been one-sided.
An Anglican Aboriginal pastor who attended the COP26 climate conference shares his perspective on Indigenous knowledge in dealing with climate change.
The IPCC’s latest climate report discusses how colonialism has shaped climate, a breakthrough for the climate justice movement.
It is not acceptable for the law to disregard, or further constrain, the reality of First Nations’ prior possession of this country.
Non-Indigenous Canadians are right to feel shame about Indian Residential Schools. But what comes next?
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Project Lead, Australian Climate Accountability Project at the UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW
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Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability; Director of the University of Michigan Water Center, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor and Director, Kingsford Legal Centre, UNSW
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and Professor in Political Science, Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Chancellor, University of Canberra
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Professor, RMIT University
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Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, University of Saskatchewan
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Spanish, Swansea University