At the Indian Law Resource Center, we advocate for critical issues that impact Indigenous communities across the Americas. Our top priorities include ending violence against Native women, protecting the environment, defending human rights, and safeguarding land rights.
Our work with Native and indigenous peoples has always drawn the connection between indigenous land rights, environmental protection and human rights. When indigenous peoples are deprived of their ties to the earth and their ways of life, they suffer. The effects of poverty, poor health, discrimination, and grave human rights abuses have many Native peoples and cultures at risk of disappearing completely.
Securing Land Ownership Rights for Indigenous Communities in Mexico and Central and South America
Indian tribes in Mexico and in Central and South America are treated terribly almost everywhere. The most important thing we can do to help them is to help them protect and hold on to their lands – lands they need in order to have food and to survive. This is why we are working to assist Indian communities, especially in Mexico and Central and South America, to get strong legal rights to their lands.
In Central America, extractive industry and conservation projects are threatening the special relationship the Indigenous peoples have with their lands and resources.
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The Indian Law Resource Center provides a collection of valuable resources,
including legislative updates, files, documents, and media, designed to inform and
empower Indigenous rights. These tools offer critical information to support
Indigenous rights and community initiatives.
