Stigmabase | North America

Indigenous  Yukpa besieged by deforestation and armed conflict -  The forests of the Serranía del Perijá Regional Nature Park are being burned and  indigenous peoples  are living in difficult health conditions. They are ...

How Thompson Rivers University is improving outcomes for  Indigenous people -  While in Tasmania on a cultural exchange for Indigenous students, Tess Wintercross visited one of the traditional territories of the  Aboriginal people  ...

Many Invaders of Nicaragua's  Indigenous  Lands are Army Veterans” -  There are more than 50  indigenous communities  that are at high risk and are affected by this massive incursion of land invaders,” warned ...

Climate change is the 21st century's greatest threat to human health -  But it is residents of rural and northern communities, and often  Indigenous   Peoples , whose lives are disproportionately disrupted by flood- and ...

Award-nominated Snotty Nose Rez Kids headline this weekend's Indigifest 2019 in Esquimalt -  program manager for the First  Peoples ' Cultural Council (FPCC), said the event celebrates the “ingenuity, vitality and diversity of  Indigenous  music, ...

Amazon Deforestation and Brazilian President Bolsonaro's Attack on Science -  These include land protection, particular by  Indigenous Peoples  in their reserves; the strength of enforcement of Brazil's Forest Code and related laws ...

Philippine bill seeks to grant nature the same legal rights as humans -  The bill, currently in the drafting, adequately represents the connectedness between  indigenous peoples  and their ancestral domains, an indigenous ...

Poll suggests voters want pharmacare, action on reconciliation with  Indigenous  ... -  in Canada want the federal government to implement a national pharmacare program and to take action on reconciliation with  Indigenous peoples , ...

Nasir Khan Jung soon started trending across online platforms as thousands of users — many from the LGBTQ community — took to social media ... View article...

However, speaking to The Wrap, one of the stars of the show, Jonathan Van Ness called for more LGBTQ representation in the television world. View article...

Despite a dearth of information on how diabetes affects individuals in the LGBTQ community, diabetes care and education specialists ... View article...

YouTube seems to be getting into a lawsuit again. According to a new report, a group of LGBTQ creators sued the video-sharing website for ... View article...

Earl Fowlkes, chairman of the Democratic National Committee's LGBT Caucus, said he couldn't understand "how an LGBTQ organization of any kind ... View article...

An LGBTQ church has been vandalized six times in the past two weeks and churchgoers are worried their community is the ... View article...

Now, she's at the forefront of an international campaign to advocate for, support and protect the rights of LGBTQ military service members and veterans ... View article...

Palestinian police have banned events organized by the LGBTQ rights organization alQaws because they go against “traditional Palestinian values,” ... View article...

The diversity index indicates on a scale of 1 to 100 the probability that any two full-time managers at an institution were from different racial or ethnic ... View article...

Rather than reaffirming white Americans' racialized self-esteem, the ... Americans' key role in creating and perpetuating racial inequality and racial ... View article...

An attorney for the child's parents noted in the complaint that depicting African Americans with jet black skin is a negative racial stereotype dating back ... View article...

Portland, Oregon, has a troubling history of racial discrimination and tensions between police and African American communities. But now, a theater ... View article...

But they handed much of it to opinion writers who profit from seeing things through racial lenses and keeping racial tension aflame as much as Trump ... View article...

“I didn't realize that to say something is wrong about a racial group is to say ... Kendi quotes the 19th-century African-American thinker Alexander ... View article...

But immigrants who were citizens had less poverty, close to equal earnings ... About 1 in 20 immigrants from Latin America had a master's degree or ... View article...

That's a topic ill-suited to Trump's fiercely America-centric -- critics say ... a major factor, according to France, in driving economic and social inequality. View article...

Sharing, singing and learning at Akwesasne Friendship Day -  The way I tell them, is a modern way, a contemporary style,” said Ground, who recanted tales that date from when the  Indigenous peoples  walked ...

Trump Administration Sued for Failing to Protect Endangered West Coast Orcas -   Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for ... “They are among the most intelligent marine mammals in the oceans of the world and are held sacred to  indigenous peoples  along the West Coast.