indigenous peoples


India NZ FTA fails the Interim Tiriti o Waitangi assessment
Usually at this stage of a trade negotiation, Ngā Toki Whakarururanga would have prepared a Tiriti o Waitangi assessment of the recently concluded free trade agreement between India and New Zealand, based on having confidential access to the negotiating text.
The battle over seeds in Latin America: the legal siege and people's response
Corporate encroachment is increasingly disguised as legal protection. Under laws that allegedly safeguard seeds, doors are opened for their registration, certification, or privatisation.
APIB’s political statement on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement and its impact on the rights of indigenous peoples
The Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the organization that represents nationally and internationally more than 300 indigenous peoples from all regions of Brazil, reaffirms its opposition to the signing and ratification of the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement.
Canada’s mining firms are big beneficiaries of the global order its prime minister just criticized
As Mark Carney urges value-based leadership, critics point to trade rules championed by Canada that undermine those ideals.
Water defenders celebrate ruling against US gold company’s claim
A major victory against an exploitative corporate lawsuit in Guatemala.
Statement from the Peaceful Resistance La Puya to the Guatemalan and international community in response to the decision of the international arbitration tribunal (ICSID) in KCA v. Guatemala
This is an opportune moment for Guatemala review the commitments it has made in investment treaties and decide, weighing the costs and benefits, whether or not to remain in his system.
Latest twist in Chevron’s Amazon pollution saga: Ecuador ordered to pay the oil company $220 million
Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco in 2001. celebre su derrota.
COP30 shows why dismantling ISDS is essential for real climate action
COP30 showed once again that climate policy cannot succeed while outdated investment treaties give corporations the power to punish ambition.
Canada to pursue free trade negotiations with the Philippines as land and environmental defenders continue to be killed
On November 5, 2025, the Canadian government tabled a Notice of Intent to enter into free trade negotiations with the Philippines.
Is Canada prepared to ignore alarming human rights violations to advance a controversial free trade agreement with Ecuador?
The Canadian government must not remain indifferent to the bloodshed and the incontrovertible reality of a grave human rights crisis in Ecuador.