Dear Indigenous sisters and brothers, representatives of environmental, and human rights organizations: The Aborigen-Forum, the Indigenous Peoples Rights International, and the Cultural Survival request your support by signing and circulating this open letter to Elon Musk, the Chief..
Amid the pandemic, six Indigenous villagers, including Kinipan community leader Effendi Buhing, and two Indigenous youth, were arrested by the Central Kalimantan Police, in Indonesia, for defending their customary forest against the expansion of PT Sawit Mandiri Lestari..
Background and Context Indigenous peoples have long been struggling to defend their rights against criminalization and impunity at the local, national and regional levels. However, there are no concerted efforts to address this issue in a sustained..
{rsform 5} The Incident In yet another mining community in Nueva Vizcaya, at least 10 individuals, including a 2-month old baby and his mother, were killed in landslides. On November 12, 2020, at least 3 sitios in Runruno,..
SECRETARY KENYA Naomi is a Maasai from the Kajiado District of Kenya. She speaks Maa (Maasai language), Kiswahili, and with reading knowledge in French. She attended the University of Nairobi with a degree in B. Ed. Education, major..
TREASURER COLOMBIA Leonor is an indigenous activist from Arhuaco Organization in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, del Cesar, Colombia. She is the Human Rights Commissioner of the Tayrona Indigenous Confederation (Confederacion Indigena Tayrona) and representative of the National..
VICE CHAIRPERSON SWEDEN Lars is a Saami and reindeer herder from Sweden. He served as the president of the Saami Parliament in Sweden in 2001 and chairperson of the Union of the Swedish Saami (Svenska Samernas Riksforund, SSR)..
RUSSIA Pavel Sulyandziga (Russian: Павел Васильевич Суляндзига) is Russian indigenous peoples rights activist of Udege nationality. He was a teacher of mathematics at the Math and Physics Department of the Khabarovsk State Pedagogical Institute in Khabarovsk City and..
PHILIPPINES Wilfredo is a Kankana-ey Igorot and Ilocano with roots from Sabangan, Mountain Province and Tayug, Pangasinan, Philippines. He is a professor of Mathematics at the University of the Philippines in Baguio City (UP Baguio). His education and..
INDONESIA Rukka, a Torajan from the highlands of Sulawesi, is the first female Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the world’s largest Indigenous Peoples organization at the national level. She is known for..
