Canada: outcry after video shows hospital staff taunting dying Indigenous woman
A shocking video showing hospital staff in Canada taunting a dying Indigenous woman has left a community in mourning and renewed calls for the country...
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One million coronavirus deaths: how did we get here?
Though an inevitable milestone for months, its arrival is still breathtaking. Deaths from Covid-19 exceeded 1 million people on Tuesday , according to a Johns...
Covid curbs 400th Mayflower anniversary as Americans stay away
There was some pomp and ceremony. A military band played, ambassadors and civic leaders made speeches, and the union flag fluttered beside the stars and...
‘Unprecedented’: the US west’s wildfire catastrophe explained
The historic wildfires that have seized the west are delivering a dire message: the climate crisis and decades of bad environmental policies have unleashed deadly...
Indigenous tribe in Ecuador appeals for help to deal with coronavirus
Climate change and multinational corporations have long posed a threat to the people of the Amazon rainforest. Now, however, the region’s indigenous tribes face an...
Sisters die weeks apart from Covid-19 as virus ravages Navajo Nation
Cheryl and Corrina Thinn were almost joined at the hip. The sisters, both members of the Navajo Nation, shared an office at Tuba City Regional...
European banks urged to stop funding oil trade in Amazon
Indigenous people living at the headwaters of the Amazon have called on European banks to stop financing oil development in the region, as it poses...
‘The Amazon is the vagina of the world’: why women are key to saving Brazil’s forests
Célia Xakriabá is the voice of a new generation of female indigenous leaders who are leading the fight against the destruction of Brazil’s forests both...
Natsiaa 2020: the winners and finalists of Australia’s Indigenous art prize – in pictures
Western Australia artist Ngarralja Tommy May won the $50,000 top prize in the prestigious 2020 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards announced on...
‘Our children’s lives on the line’: the ongoing battle for Guam
“It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment one … starts to see the great game afoot,” Julian Aguon says, before pausing, and catching himself. “For...