El pueblo indígena Saami habita en la parte norte de la península escandinava y en gran parte de la península de Kola: en Suecia, Noruega, Finlandia y Rusia. En Finlandia viven cerca de 8.000 Saami, lo que supone aproximadamente el 0.16 % de la población total finlandesa, de unos cinco millones de habitantes […] Políticamente, el …
PREFACE The drafting of this White/Wiphala Paper was coordinated by the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and edited by a Technical Editorial Committee that summarised the main points received. The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems is the result of collective work by indigenous and non-indigenous experts, scientists and researchers. The initial draft …
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The Amazon Rainforest. Credit: Diego Baravelli/picture alliance via Getty Images Vast forests across Latin America and the Caribbean that are critical for storing carbon and conserving biodiversity are under increasing assault from logging, mining and ranching. But the best defense to this deforestation lies with the people who have lived in the forests for hundreds …
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The double hazards of climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic and their impacts are twice as much difficult on Indigenous Peoples. With the high rate of poverty and inaccessibility of basic social services, plus consequences of destructive projects being implemented in their territories, the burden is unmistakably challenging. What more for Indigenous Peoples with disabilities …
Photo: Embassy of Finland Finland’s Ambassador Mikael Antell highlights in particular Retter’s work during the Finnish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2017-2019, where Retter was an important voice for the Sámi people, and the Arctic cooperation. It was very unexpected to be awarded like this. I feel deeply honored and humbled. I see the …
Myrna Cunningham, Thomson Reuters Foundation I grew up near a mythical river: the Wanki, which runs along the border that today separates Honduras from Nicaragua. I hold on to fond childhood memories of swimming across that river with my sisters to water crops, learning to fish with the women and of working together shelling beans. …
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