Debates indígenas in English

24/09/2025

The Peruvian State has disregarded international agreements safeguarding Indigenous rights by pursuing an aggressive policy of natural resource extraction and large-scale infrastructure projects. In response, and drawing on the concept of integral territory and the right to self-determination, Amazonian Indigenous Peoples have begun to demarcate their lands independently, without State endorsement. The initiative of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation has set in motion a process that is now being replicated by other peoples.

✒️ By Alexandre Surrallés

📲 Read the full article: https://bit.ly/47wzVSG

21/08/2025

INDIGENOUS DEBATES
August 2025

Special: Forced Displacement

🌎 Challenges of the Inter-American Human Rights System
By Andrea Pochak
https://bit.ly/3Hr5XF6

🇲🇽 Forced Displacement in the Sierra Tarahumara
By CONTEC
https://bit.ly/3HAtNhv

🇨🇴 Colombia: Constitutional Court Rules in Favour of the Je’eruriwa People
By Ipurepi - Oswaldo Rodríguez Macuna & Laura Ann Kleiner
https://bit.ly/45gOx79

🇳🇮 The Forced Displacement of the Mayangna People of Nicaragua
By Lusben Taylor P
https://bit.ly/4mHYnVh

🇪🇨 Empty Territories and Violated Rights in Ecuador
By Pablo Ortiz-T.
https://bit.ly/414rR7D

🇲🇽 A Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in Chiapas
By Ramón Martínez Coria
https://bit.ly/3UuQwP8

10/10/2024

DEBATES INDÍGENAS | October 2024

🇵🇪 Coloniality of power and territorial self-governance
By Roberto Espinoza
https://bit.ly/3YmBf5K

🇧🇴 Forest fires devastate Indigenous communities in Bolivia
By Tora Jensen -International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)- & Miguel Vargas Delgado -Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social - CEJIS-
https://bit.ly/3BFM4qr

🇨🇴 Ethnic Chapter: the unfulfilled promises of peace in Colombia
By Asdrúbal Plaza Calvo
https://bit.ly/480rHAe

🇲🇽 Mexico: constitutional reform on Indigenous and Afro-descendant rights
By Elisa Cruz Rueda
https://bit.ly/3NpDJtq

🇳🇮 Nicaraguan Indigenous People in exile in Costa Rica
By Kiki
https://bit.ly/400ECAd

28/08/2024

📢 New Special!

🇨🇴 “It is important for social movements to be integrated into institutional frameworks”
Interview with Patricia Tobón Yagarí
https://bit.ly/4fZDa6X

🇦🇷 Case of Lhaka Honhat vs. Argentine State: Four Years After the Inter-American Court’s Ruling
By Morita Carrasco
https://bit.ly/3X6fFQK

🇬🇹 In defense of democracy: the role of Indigenous communities and authorities in Guatemalan politics
By Santiago Bastos Amigo
https://bit.ly/4dGRwaF

🇵🇦 Overcrowding and climate change in Panama: relocation of a Guna Community from their island to the mainland
By Bernal Damián Castillo Díaz
https://bit.ly/472QdjY

🇨🇴 Undermining the right to consultation: the case of the struggles and resistances of Los Negros de Cañaverales
By Daniela Saffie Budnik
https://bit.ly/4dIDwNQ

28/06/2024

📢Special June 2024

🇧🇴 The long journey of the Autonomous Government of Ch’alla
By Sergio Vásquez Rojas

🇳🇮 Nicaragua: conflict resolution, peace, and development*
By Larry Salomón Pedro

🎙️ Decolonizing communications
By Kathia Carrillo

🇲🇽 Municipal elections in Chiapas: the takeover by organized crime groups
By Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor

🌎 On the road to the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum
By María Eugenia Carrizo

👉🏾Read the full articles: https://debatesindigenas.org/en/

27/05/2024

May 2024

🇦🇷 Javier Milei and Indigenous Peoples
By Silvina Ramírez
https://bit.ly/44UMF1Y

🇲🇽 Humanitarian emergency in Chiapas
By Writer for Peace
https://bit.ly/4bybcwy

🇨🇴 Indigenous People and drug trafficking
By Efraín Jaramillo
https://bit.ly/3UQ9Oy9

🇪🇨 Ecuador: the fascist face of extractivism
By Pablo Ortiz-T.
https://bit.ly/3yqmm7G

🇧🇷 Under the shadows of dictatorship
By María de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara
https://bit.ly/3QYwICp

23/04/2024

🇨🇦 Despite its global reputation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Canada has a strong contributing extractive sector. Much of its mining activity is concentrated in British Columbia, where 62% of all Canadian coal is produced. The new coal plant project that will produce between 775,000 and 825,000 tons has members of Indigenous communities in the region at odds with one another. The Tenas mine threatens to contaminate the Telkwa River, affect salmon and reindeer populations and put the ecosystem at risk.

🖋️By Sidney Coles

Despite its global reputation for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Canada has a strong contributing extractive sector. Much of its mining activity is concentrated in British Columbia, where 62% of all Canadian coal is produced. The new coal plant project that will produce between 775,000 and 825,0...

12/04/2024

📢 International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) launches "The Indigenous World 2024" 🗓️ Tuesday 16 April at 13:15 (NYC time) during the 23rd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN headquarters in New York City.

📔 This 38th annual edition documents the human rights situation of and the developments they have experienced in 2023 with a focus on Indigenous Peoples’ rights. The Indigenous World 2024 reports these trends through 54 regional and country reports and 17 reports on international processes.

🌐 The Indigenous World 2024 will be available online both in English and Spanish on 16 April here: https://bit.ly/3jwR8k3

👉 More details about the launch event to follow.

16/01/2024

🇨🇷 Costa Rica is a small country in Central America known for its tradition of political stability. It has been acknowledged as a democratic nation, navigating exceptionally amid the concert of instability in other Latin American nations. In this context, the three branches of the State have undertaken a series of initiatives that mark progress in recognizing the rights of its Afro-descendant population.

✍🏽 By Diana Senior Angulo

🌐 https://bit.ly/47bte4I

11/01/2024

🇧🇴 Despite the resistance of community members, fires have devastated Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Bolivian Amazon. The fires have affected their food sources, access to clean water, and destroyed their homes. Beyond climate change, the issue is also structural: the government implements national policies that promote extractive economies. Now, communities know that fires will be a new excuse to encroach on their territories. The challenge of how to rebuild life, rethink traditional practices, and reclaim ancestral knowledge after the fires persists.

By Daniela Vidal - Fundación Solón

Despite the resistance of community members, fires have devastated Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Bolivian Amazon. The fires have affected their food sources, access to clean water, and destroyed their homes. Beyond climate change, the issue is also structural: the government impl...

02/01/2024

🌎 After eight years at the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (IACHR), Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño retired on December 31, 2023. The Panamanian lawyer specialized in human rights was elected in 2016, served as Chair in 2019 and Vice-Chair between 2022 and 2023. She is also Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples, Children and Adolescents, as well as Rapporteur for Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

🎙️ Read the interview!

After eight years at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño will retire on December 31, 2023. The Panamanian lawyer specialized in human rights was elected in 2016, served as Chair in 2019 and Vice-Chair between 2022 and 2023. She is also Rapporteur f...

26/12/2023

December 2023

🌎 "It is crucial to use the tools available to ensure that States comply with their international commitments"
Interview with Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño - CIDH
https://bit.ly/41zotkc

🇧🇴 Living and surviving among ashes: fires in the Amazon of Bolivia
By Daniela Vidal - Fundación Solón
https://bit.ly/41Bk2VU

🇨🇷 Afro-Costa Rican Population in the context of the International Decade for People of African Descent
By Diana Senior Angulo
https://bit.ly/47bte4I

🇲🇽 “Our fight challenges the stigmatization of Black people”
Interview with Yolanda Camacho
https://bit.ly/3RBOomP