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News of Note 4/4/25: No Consent to Oil from Achuar and Sapara Nations, Brazil Mining Proposal Revoked, Violations Escalate against Pataxó People

The Achuar and Sapara nations in Ecuador assembled and agreed they do not consent to oil development on ancestral lands, Brazil’s Supreme Court withdrew its proposal to allow mining in Indigenous territories, rights violations against the Pataxó people in Brazil escalate without demarcation of their ancestral territories, and more.

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News of Note 3/7/25: Oil and Gas Alarms in Peru, FPIC as ‘Right to Robust Process’, Remembering 41 Indigenous Defenders

Benefits of returning U.S. public land to Indigenous Peoples, oil and gas threats in Peru, Canadian court ruling FPIC as “right to robust process”, and remembering 41 Indigenous defenders murdered in Latin America. Plus young Māori activists, Brandi Morin’s latest article on mining impacts in Ecuador, profiles on Berta Caceres and Tarcila Rivera-Zea and more.

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