Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe says she has no regrets as Senate expresses disapproval of protest against the monarch. Australia’s Senate has voted to censure Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe after she heckled Britain’s King Charles III during his visit to parliament last month. The vote, led by Australia’s governing Labor Party,…
Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights. Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people. New Zealand police reported that about 10,000 people…
Relatives, friends and leaders say Sinclair, who died this week aged 73, and his legacy will ‘never be forgotten’. Canada is holding a national memorial for Murray Sinclair, a trailblazing Indigenous judge and senator who led the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission into abuses committed against Indigenous children at residential…
‘It’s like home’ Martha was able to heal some of that trauma by reconnecting with her father before he died in 2005. “He sobered up in the later years,” she says. “He was getting sickly, but I would ask him things, [about our culture]. And he would bring me to…
Two very different versions have emerged of Sunday’s incident when Morales says his car was hit by bullets. The Bolivian government has disputed claims by former President Evo Morales that he was the victim of an assassination attempt by police at the weekend in the latest incident heightening tensions between…
United States President Joe Biden has issued a formal apology to Native Americans for the government’s role in separating Indigenous children from their parents and forcing them into abusive boarding schools. Biden gave the apology, long-sought by Tribal nations, on Friday during his first-ever visit to Native country, calling the…
Other nations including Canada and Australia have said sorry for previous policies of forced assimilation. United States President Joe Biden will formally apologise for the government’s role in forcing Indigenous children into boarding schools where many were physically and sexually abused and nearly 1,000 died. “I’m doing something I should…
Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have turned to a United Kingdom court for compensation, almost nine years after tonnes of toxic mining waste poured into a major waterway, killing 19 people and devastating local communities. The class action lawsuit at the High Court of Justice in London on Monday…
Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town still under the control of the Myanmar military – their adversary. While this is a familiar sight in the region, where the struggle…
Police say 31 Maoist rebels killed in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh after a nine-hour firefight. At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels have been killed during a clash with Indian security forces, state police said. The confrontation took place on Friday after counterinsurgency forces, acting on intelligence, surrounded approximately…
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