Author: Zsófia Rába “My drive to know more about my culture through its cuisine.” – Quentin Glabus Food as a Way of Storytelling Food, beyond its primary purpose of sustenance, is a medium for cultural… Read More »Food as a Bridge: Revitalizing Indigenous Culture Through Cuisine
Author: Francisca Seabra “The Earth is in need of a good lawyer.” – Polly Higgins As the environmental crisis deepens with escalating climate change and biodiversity loss, nations around the world increasingly turn to Ecocide… Read More »Defending the Earth: Advances in the Fight Against Ecocide
Authors: Júlia Fortuny, Zsófia Rába and Francisca Seabra For many marginalized communities, historical trauma is not just a distant memory, but an inherited pain passed down through generations. It’s more than a fact recorded in… Read More »A Legacy of Wounds and Resistance
Author: Júlia Fortuny In this blog post, we want to share the powerful story of Mina Susana Setra, a lawyer and Indigenous Dayak Pompakng activist whose tireless work has inspired us deeply. Her dedication to defending… Read More »Mina Susana Setra – Lawyer and Indigenous Dayak Pompakng activist
Author: Júlia Fortuny COP29 concluded with significant announcements on climate finance and carbon market mechanisms, but the outcomes left many Indigenous Peoples, marginalised communities, and vulnerable nations feeling excluded. While there were advancements in areas… Read More »COP29 Outcomes: Progress and Gaps for Indigenous Peoples and Vulnerable Communities
Author: Zsófia Rába “Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.” Vandana Shiva A Global Struggle for Control Over Food In today’s world, global food production… Read More »UNDROP: A Pathway to Food Sovereignty and Peasant Rights in a Corporate-Dominated World
Authors: Júlia Fortuny, Yasmine Rugarli Referred to as the “People’s COP,” COP16 established a new benchmark in Indigenous inclusion with extensive participation from Indigenous communities, Afro-descendants, women, and youth. Through the Pact for Biodiversity Conservation,… Read More »COP16: Breakthroughs in Indigenous Inclusion & Persistent Challenges in Global Biodiversity Goals
As the world focuses on the global conference, COP 16, Indigenous peoples stand at the forefront of key environmental negotiations. In this week’s newsletter, we will explore the goals of COP 16 and highlight how… Read More »Indigenous Leadership at the Heart of COP 16
Author: Zsófia Rába If my singing is a platform to help these issues being raised, then I will do it with love, with laughter and with fists.” – Tanya Tagaq; 2015 Tanya Tagaq is not… Read More »Tanya Tagaq – A Voice for Environmental Justice and Indigenous Resistance
Author: Francisca Seabra “When I wasn’t writing my own stories, I was being read to and, most importantly, told stories about family and Country” – Jeanine Leane Jeanine Leane was born in 1961 in Wagga… Read More »The Power of Indigenous Storytelling Through Jeanine Leane’s Poetry
