The health check of the people who arrive in these communities is asked, because, as the testimonies sent to Fides by the missionaries who work here point out, infected merchants or government delegates can arrive, who can transmit the virus to a community. Not having health centers to accommodate a patient of this kind, it could cause a real tragedy, exterminating the whole community
The Week of Indigenous Peoples is inspired by the First Pan-American Indigenous Congress, held in Mexico on April 19, 1940. Considering the need to make this reality more visible and to encourage solidarity with these peoples, the decision to extend the celebration for a week was taken.
Every year, the Mother Tongue Film Festival, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, showcases films about indigenous cultures that celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity. Most of these films have been made in indigenous languages from all over the world
Human Rights Watch examines how a patchwork of weak laws, exacerbated by poor government oversight, and the failure of oil palm plantation companies to fulfill their human rights responsibilities have adversely affected Indigenous peoples’ rights to their forests, livelihood, food, water, and culture in Bengkayang regency, West Kalimantan, and Sarolangun regency, Jambi
We learn why this indigenous group in Alaska continues their tradition of whaling and the ways they are teaching their kids to whale…including the dangers