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The Tsum Valley in Nepal, where the Indigenous Tsumba and people live / credit: Nepal Mother House Treks and Expeditions

‘We Used to Have Everything’: Western Conservation Models Threaten Indigenous Rights, Says New Report

Deepa Padmanaban March 18, 2022 Deepa Padmanaban

The report, “Reconciling Conservation and Global Biodiversity Goals with Community Land Rights in Asia,” comes ahead of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference. To be held next month in Kunming, China, the conference is expected to adopt the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation Framework (GBF), which includes placing under protection 30 percent of the world’s land and water by 2030, reports Deepa Padmanaban.

A Ukrainian delegation arrived on February 28 in Belarus for a round of talks with Russia / credit: Sergei Kholodilin/BelTA/TASS

Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media

Vijay Prashad March 3, 2022 Vijay Prashad

Even as we deplore the violence and the loss of life in Ukraine resulting from the Russian intervention (and the neofascist violence in the Donbass), it is valuable to step back and look at how the rest of the world may perceive this conflict, starting with the West’s ethnocentric interest in an attack whose participants and victims they believe they share aspects of identity with—whether related to culture, religion, or skin color, writes Vijay Prashad.

Protester holding the Sudanese flag in Khartoum after the October 25 coup / credit: Revolutionary masses of Sudan

Conversations with Sudanese Activists on the Sudan Coup

Kribsoo Diallo January 17, 2022 Kribsoo Diallo

Cairo-based Pan-Africanist researcher Kribsoo Diallo conducted interviews with Sudanese activists based in Khartoum. This represents part 2 of a two-part series on the Sudan coup.

People take part in a protest against the military offensive led by Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar, at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya, on May 17, 2019 / credit: Xinhua/Amru Salahuddien

United States Still Strongarming ‘Democracy’ Onto Libya

Netfa Freeman December 22, 2021 Netfa Freeman

The Western imperialist forces responsible for the overthrow and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, as well as the destruction of Libya, are now trying to force elections and so-called “democracy” onto the country, writes Netfa Freeman.

A Mapuche protest in Chile / credit: Jubileu Sul

West Complicit in Arming Chile to Violate Mapuche Rights

Carole Concha Bell December 20, 2021 Carole Concha Bell

Between former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s terror laws being used to criminalize Mapuche elders and activists, the United States and the United Kingdom arming Chile’s security forces, and the failure of international agencies to treat the Mapuche conflict with urgency, the West appears complicit in the genocide of the Mapuche people.

Women in the Rhino Refugee Camp in Urua, Uganda. Developing countries rely developed countries to help them adapt and mitigate climate-change effects / credit: Ninno JackJr on Unsplash

Ahead of COP26, African Countries Reject EU Trying to Back Out of Climate Finance Talks

Rishika Pardikar October 30, 2021 Rishika Pardikar

With its climate pact and a climate law, the European Union is often viewed as progressive when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. But positions that both EU countries and the EU bloc have taken in the run-up to the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), the largest annual climate-change conference, paint a different picture.