Theme: indigenous peoples

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…

ADC Memorial publishes the first video of the YouTube blog  Coal kills us   created by Yana Tannagasheva, who represents the indigenous people of West Siberia – Shor, Yana speaks about the tragedy of Shor villages that get literary buried under…

Submissions from civil society will be used for preparing the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights “Effective promotion of the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic…

Говорит баренц (Talking Barents), an audio-version of all Russian language news made available via podcast services, is the latest move to reach our Russian audience, says Atle Staalesen, founder of the Barents Observer. Following its blockage in Russia, the Barents…