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Indigenous rights activists from across the globe gathered at the United Nations headquarters to demand stronger international support for decolonization and anti-colonial independence movements.
Human rights defenders and indigenous activists from the Pacific to the Caribbean united at the United Nations on Tuesday to amplify their calls for decolonization and self-determination.
The forum, titled “Decolonization: Silent Revolution,” was organized by the Baku Initiative Group, an international NGO focused on empowering indigenous movements worldwide. It served as a platform for activists to share experiences, strategize, and build solidarity across continents.
“We must decolonize education and teach our children who they really are,” said Bonair activist Phenice Frans-Piar. “We must reclaim our identity with pride and purpose.”
Participants emphasized that the legacies of colonialism continue to affect indigenous communities through economic marginalization, political disenfranchisement, and cultural erasure.
Viro Xulue, a Kanak indigenous rights activist from New Caledonia, attended the forum to draw attention to his people’s struggle for independence from French colonial rule. “We are not seeking permission—we are asserting our rights,” he said, underscoring the urgency of international recognition for ongoing independence efforts.
Activists called on the UN and the broader international community to take concrete steps toward supporting indigenous sovereignty, especially in regions still under foreign administration or lacking formal independence.
The event marks a growing momentum within global civil society to reframe indigenous rights as central to international human rights and geopolitical discourse.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A tsunami threat was issued in Chile after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Friday. The epicenter was located 135 miles south of Puerto Williams on the north coast of Navarino Island.
A shooting in Nice, southeastern France, left two people dead and five injured on Friday, authorities said.
The European Union’s next wave of eastward enlargement, particularly involving candidate countries in Central and Eastern Europe, could prove decisive for Europe’s energy security and competitiveness.
Venezuela has closed its embassy in Oslo, Norway’s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
NATO is reinforcing its eastern flank as Italy deploys Eurofighter Typhoons to Estonia, Finland opens a new Northern Land Forces Command, and European allies push for a continent-wide “Drone Wall” following Russian drone incursions that exposed gaps in the alliance’s air defences.
Russian jets and drones are testing NATO’s defences, pushing Europe to rethink how it secures its airspace. Italy has deployed Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Estonia’s Amari Air Base, replacing F-35s under NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that supplying U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could end badly for everyone, especially U.S. President Donald Trump.
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