News of Note: 5/16/25: Disproportionate Indigenous Impacts from Mining, Waorani Demand Decision-Making Rights, Illegal Evictions of Rumah Jeffrey
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2025 Transition Minerals Tracker Underscores the Disproportionate Impact of Mining for Transition Minerals on Indigenous Communities (Cultural Survival)
”With 18 new cases of reported impacts on Indigenous Peoples and 77 across all years, the Tracker shows that Indigenous Peoples are negatively affected by an unchecked acceleration in mining for transition minerals. This is particularly concerning given the recent setback on recognizing their right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the new proposed global standards for the mining industry.”
The Waorani Communities of Pastaza Receive Strong International Support as they Demand their Right to Decide on their Territories (Amazon Frontlines)
”80 prominent figures, calling on the CCE to issue an urgent ruling that respects collective rights and stops the advancement of the new oil auction promoted by the government. This case is widely viewed as a test of Ecuador’s constitutional guarantees for Indigenous rights, particularly the right to free, prior, and informed consent. The ruling of the CCE is more urgent than ever in the wake of President Daniel Noboa’s announcement signaling the reactivation of the Southeast Oil Round, a government-led oil auction that threatens more than eight million acres of Amazon rainforest.”
Deforestation and illegal evictions threaten Malaysia’s Indigenous peoples (Grist)
“A new investigation published last week by Human Rights Watch concludes the Rumah Jeffrey community is being wrongly evicted, in violation of Malaysia’s laws, as well as in violation of their international rights as Indigenous peoples to consent to extractive projects on their land.”
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