Criminalization of Indigenous land defenders on the rise, says UN report
by Mother Jones
Mother Jones— This story was originally published by Grist as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it […]
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