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UN committee warns systemic discrimination against Indigenous children in Australia youth justice system

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) warned in a statement issued Tuesday that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia continue t...

How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia

Recognition of Aboriginal Australians has become standard at most public events. Increasingly, the right is taking aim at the practice.

APY Art Centre Collective calls for federal inquiry into First Nations art industry

APY Art Centre Collective calls for federal inquiry into First Nations art industry

At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten

The now 88-year-old is urging Australian governments to throw their support behind a new national plan for Stolen Generations survivors as they enter their final yearsGet our break...

Almost 20 years after the NT intervention, governments are making the same mistakes – and failing Aboriginal children

We have clear evidence that community-controlled family and children’s services are trusted and used. When they are administered by non-Aboriginal bureaucrats, they failWarning: Th...

‘Inherently dangerous and unnecessary’: NT buses will soon be patrolled by armed officers

First Nations lawyers and politicians warn the change will disproportionately affect Indigenous people, making them feel ‘less safe, rather than more safe’Get our breaking news ema...

Man charged over death of Australian indigenous girl

A human rights center opens a path to justice for Indigenous Peoples in the Central African Republic

BAYANGA, Central African Republic — Across the Congo Basin, conservation has long been fraught with a difficult contradiction. Protected areas, meant to preserve wildlife, have at...

From Glebe to Gallipoli: Indigenous voices into Sydney Anglican history

From Russell Powell at SydneyAnglicans.net –  “Archbishop Kanishka Raffel has decried the ‘deeply repugnant’ treatment of Aboriginal Elder Uncle Ray Minniecon at an Anzac Day servi...

White Australia political party ruled invalid by AEC amid High Court challenge

White Australia political party ruled invalid by AEC amid High Court challenge

Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying

At the U.N., global leaders say governments must stop talking and start implementing protections they adopted.

‘We refused to be weaponised’: The rise of Asians backing tino rangatiratanga

A decade after a single Waitangi banner, Asians Supporting Tino Rangatiratanga has become a national movement – and a challenge to how te Tiriti is framed in Aotearoa. At Waita...

British Columbia’s government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…

newsfromstolenland:B.C. faces ‘complete opposition’ after telling First Nations of plan to suspend DRIPABritish Columbia’s government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the...

Aboriginal child moved 1,700km from remote NT community should be returned, family court rules

Judge says boy should go back to his community to learn about stories and rituals ‘that can only be taught on country’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn...

Beyond trespassing claims, Orang Asli women stand at the heart of land rights struggle

 KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 — Among the 21 Orang Asli arrested in February for trespassing on a palm oil plan...

Riot erupts after Indigenous girl, 5, killed in Australia

Hundreds of protesters clashed with Australian emergency services workers in a remote town following the arrest of a ⁠man suspected of murdering a five-year-old Indigenous girl, po...

Aotea/Great Barrier Island iwi meet with government amid overfishing concerns

NgДЃti Rehua - NgДЃtiwai ki Aotea Trust Board and the Aotea/Great Barrier Local Board are wanting the government to back a plan to manage the kЕЌura population.

Moccasins line the wall behind seven international judges from the Permanent People’s Tribunal,…

International tribunal begins investigation into missing Indigenous children and unmarked burials | CBC NewsMoccasins line the wall behind seven international judges from the Perma...

Walking for truth: Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telli...

Former Yoorrook justice commissioner says he wants to start a national discussion on a subject that is often misunderstood by the wider publicGet our breaking news email, free app...

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price breaks down during Kumanjayi Little Baby condolence motion – video

Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price delivers a tearful speech during a condolence motion for five-year-old Warlpiri girl Kumanjayi Little Baby, whose body was found in Alice...

All They Seek Is to Keep their Culture Alive

They have lived in Australia as skilled gleaners of flora and hunters of fauna, and friendly catchers of fish for years. Their intimate and bold bond with the land defines their ar...

Australian Seafarer Welfare Centers Hampered by Chronic Under-Funding

A private survey of leading stakeholders conducted by Human Rights at Sea demonstrates a nationwide pattern of chronic under-funding in the provision of seafarer support services i...

British Columbia appeal court upholds contempt conviction of Indigenous right defender Chief Dsta’hyl

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia unanimously upheld the criminal contempt conviction against Chief Dsta’hyl on Tuesday. He was found in breach of a court injunction when pr...

‘A bellwether for new forms of repression’: 2 Indigenous rights advocates remain behind bars in Russia

The U.N.’s biggest Indigenous gathering is happening next week, but a key climate advocate will be missing.