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Indigenous Group's Protest Outside Bangladesh Mission And A '1971' Reminder
Hundreds of indigenous youth and students on Friday staged a protest in front of the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala, condemning recent alleged threats and derogatory remarks made by Hasnat Abdullah, a Bangladeshi leader.
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Brazil's Planned Railway To Amazon Draws Fire On Margins Of COP30
Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch almost the distance from London to Berlin and cut through the Amazon rainforest.
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Australian Cop, Who Shot Dead An Indigenous Teen In 2019, Was A Racist
The killing of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker by then-Police Constable Zachary Rolfe in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu sparked protests and renewed scrutiny of Australia's treatment of its First Nations people.
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3 New Zealand MPs Banned From Parliament For Staging Haka Protests
New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor.
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New Zealand Set To Suspend Maori Lawmakers Over Protest Haka
Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.
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Why 35,000 People Took To New Zealand Streets In One Of Biggest Protest For Maori Rights
Indigenous "Haka" chants boomed across New Zealand's capital Wellington, as tens of thousands of people rallied against a bill that critics say would alter the core of the nation's founding treaty and dilute the rights of Maori people.
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Huge Protests In Tripura Over Attacks On Minorities In Bangladesh
The Tripura Chakma Students' Association (TCSA) on Saturday took out a rally in Agartala in protest against atrocities and killings of indigenous people in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) by its army.
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"Safeguard Indigenous Communities": Meitei Group's Sit-In At Manipur Bhavan In Shillong
A civil society organisation of the Meitei community organised a sit-in protest at the Manipur Bhavan in Meghalaya's capital Shillong on Sunday, condemning the recent rocket and weaponized drone attacks in Manipur by "Kuki insurgents".
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Greta Thunberg Detained In Norway Wind Farm Protest
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favour of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.
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Greta Thunberg, Protesters Block Norwegian Ministries Over Wind Turbines
Indigenous and environmental activists, including Greta Thunberg, blocked access to several Norwegian ministries on Tuesday, expanding a protest to demand the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures.
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Indigenous Group's Protest Outside Bangladesh Mission And A '1971' Reminder
Hundreds of indigenous youth and students on Friday staged a protest in front of the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala, condemning recent alleged threats and derogatory remarks made by Hasnat Abdullah, a Bangladeshi leader.
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Brazil's Planned Railway To Amazon Draws Fire On Margins Of COP30
Indigenous protesters at UN climate talks in Brazil have zeroed in on a major grievance: A planned railway that would stretch almost the distance from London to Berlin and cut through the Amazon rainforest.
-
Australian Cop, Who Shot Dead An Indigenous Teen In 2019, Was A Racist
The killing of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker by then-Police Constable Zachary Rolfe in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu sparked protests and renewed scrutiny of Australia's treatment of its First Nations people.
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3 New Zealand MPs Banned From Parliament For Staging Haka Protests
New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor.
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New Zealand Set To Suspend Maori Lawmakers Over Protest Haka
Indigenous Maori lawmakers have decried a push to temporarily banish them from New Zealand's parliament, after disrupting the reading of a contentious race relations bill with a protest haka.
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Why 35,000 People Took To New Zealand Streets In One Of Biggest Protest For Maori Rights
Indigenous "Haka" chants boomed across New Zealand's capital Wellington, as tens of thousands of people rallied against a bill that critics say would alter the core of the nation's founding treaty and dilute the rights of Maori people.
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Huge Protests In Tripura Over Attacks On Minorities In Bangladesh
The Tripura Chakma Students' Association (TCSA) on Saturday took out a rally in Agartala in protest against atrocities and killings of indigenous people in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) by its army.
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"Safeguard Indigenous Communities": Meitei Group's Sit-In At Manipur Bhavan In Shillong
A civil society organisation of the Meitei community organised a sit-in protest at the Manipur Bhavan in Meghalaya's capital Shillong on Sunday, condemning the recent rocket and weaponized drone attacks in Manipur by "Kuki insurgents".
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Greta Thunberg Detained In Norway Wind Farm Protest
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favour of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the finance ministry and later the environment ministry.
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Greta Thunberg, Protesters Block Norwegian Ministries Over Wind Turbines
Indigenous and environmental activists, including Greta Thunberg, blocked access to several Norwegian ministries on Tuesday, expanding a protest to demand the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures.
