Reclaim your rights: Defend Indigenous Peoples’ lands

RIGHTS are earned through hard-fought struggles. And for Indigenous Peoples (IPs), its fulfillment comes from the collective and continuous defense of ancestral land and territory, and assertion of their ways of life and the right to self-determination.

As the pandemic ravages and the global crisis deepens, the world’s superpowers and the oppressive governments and systems continue to intensify widening inequality. Exacerbated neglect and discrimination to their access to health and basic services has been a grave threat to the 476 million IPs across the globe — the tip of the iceberg of today’s social and economic inequities.