Headlines
  • After the occupation of the strategic Beaufort Castle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has "instructed the Israeli military to expand the manoeuvre in Lebanon."
  • According to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health, 3,412 people have died and 10,269 more have been injured as a result of Israel's military intervention.
  • After an Iranian missile attack was intercepted over Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base on Wednesday, a number of American soldiers and civilian contractors were returned to duty after suffering minor injuries.
  • British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper stated on Sunday that the Israeli military's increased operations in Lebanon must halt since they have killed and displaced civilians, damaged infrastructure, and reduced diplomatic space.
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the first mayor of a city in decades to abstain from the annual Israel Day Parade by skipping it on Sunday.

Tag: Indigenous Community

March 8, 2023

Press Briefing on Canadian Indigenous Women...

About Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, a press briefing is held. Seated from left to right are: Michèle Audette, Senator of Canada; Coralee McGuire-Cyrette, Ontario Native Women’s Association; Bailey Oster, Director of Youth Programs and Services of the MĂ©tis Nation of Alberta; and RoseAnne Archibald

April 24, 2020

Indigenous People Reject Food Parcels for...

The health check of the people who arrive in these communities is asked, because, as the testimonies sent to Fides by the missionaries who work here point out, infected merchants or government delegates can arrive, who can transmit the virus to a community. Not having health centers to accommodate a patient of this kind, it could cause a real tragedy, exterminating the whole community

April 22, 2020

Week of Indigenous Peoples: the Pandemic...

The Week of Indigenous Peoples is inspired by the First Pan-American Indigenous Congress, held in Mexico on April 19, 1940. Considering the need to make this reality more visible and to encourage solidarity with these peoples, the decision to extend the celebration for a week was taken.

March 14, 2020

Indigenous Languages Showcased at Mother Tongue...

Every year, the Mother Tongue Film Festival, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, showcases films about indigenous cultures that celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity. Most of these films have been made in indigenous languages from all over the world

February 4, 2020

Urgent Need to Tackle the High...

indigenous peoples also often experience poor working conditions and discrimination. Tomei said the biggest challenge to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is “the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”

September 12, 2019

Indonesian Indigenous People Losing Their Forests:...

Human Rights Watch examines how a patchwork of weak laws, exacerbated by poor government oversight, and the failure of oil palm plantation companies to fulfill their human rights responsibilities have adversely affected Indigenous peoples’ rights to their forests, livelihood, food, water, and culture in Bengkayang regency, West Kalimantan, and Sarolangun regency, Jambi

April 27, 2019

Informal Interactive Hearing with Indigenous Peoples

A participant at the Informal Interactive Hearing with Indigenous Peoples

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