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Photo:  Human rights defenders from the Santa Eulalia & Santa Cruz Barillias areas of Huehuetenango, Guatemala gather together while celebrating the acquittal of Baltazar and 5 other rights defenders on July 31st, 2018.  Each person in the photo had been previously charged for crimes that of which they were later found innocent.  By Lisa Maya Knauer.

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Según Naciones Unidas, más de 5000 grupos Indígenas en 90 países hablan una inmensa mayoría de las 7000 lenguas del mundo. Los pueblos Indígenas están constituidos por 370 millones de personas aproximadamente, es decir, más del 5% de la población mundial.

Photo:  Human rights defenders from the Santa Eulalia & Santa Cruz Barillias areas of Huehuetenango, Guatemala gather together while celebrating the acquittal of Baltazar and 5 other rights defenders on July 31st, 2018.  Each person in the photo had been previously charged for crimes that of which they were later found innocent.  By Lisa Maya Knauer.

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Photo By C. Hance - This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as Dja Faunal Reserve., CC BY-SA 
 

Singapore-based rubber company Halcyon Agri, and its subsidiary in Cameroon, Sudcam, have been exposed in a report released by Greenpeace in July 2018 as extremely dangerous to the Indigenous Baka community and a local wildlife reserve.  

 

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