Coal mining has inflicted irreparable harm on the environment – the rivers and reservoirs, air, and land are heavily polluted. The indigenous peoples can not carry out their traditional economic activities – hunting and farming. For many indigenous peoples, ancestral…
Theme: indigenous peoples
Debates Indígenas: The cost of fighting for indigenous people and environmental rights in Russia
Debates Indígenas: The cost of fighting for indigenous people and environmental rights in Russia Coal mining is destroying the forests of Siberia. Contamination of the taiga and rivers is harming the Shor people, who live from hunting, gathering and fishing….
The third video – the third story ‘Kazas Village’ about the indigenous people of West Siberia by Yana Tannagasheva: “The Kazas settlement was basically destroyed in 2013-2014: the coal company Yuzhnaya, which was operating an open pit coal mine and…
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to adequate housing will include information received from civil society in a report to be presented at the UN General Assembly in 2021 and at the UN Human Rights Council session in 2022….
“The Shor and Teleut are indigenous peoples of Kemerovo region. We are hunters, fishermen, we gather herbs and berries. But now we are urbanized and assimilated. Almost all of us live in cities. Because our habitat is being destroyed, our…
Article in Spanish La minería del carbón destruye la selva congelada de la región de Siberia. La contaminación de la taiga y los ríos perjudica a los pueblos shor que viven de la caza, la pesca y la recolección. Quienes…