Articles

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Blood, Land and Sovereignty: The Status of Indigenous Rights in the Americas

The indigenous rights movements of the Americas are experiencing a renaissance. Indigenous peoples of the Americas are increasingly reasserting their claims to sovereign rights of self determination and resource governance.

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Oil, Courts, and Death: Interview with "Crude" Director Joe Berlinger

In 1993, thirty thousand indigenous and non-indigenous rain-forest dwellers sued the U.S. oil giant Texaco alleging decades of systemic pollution of water, land and air. Texaco subsequently merged with the oil company Chevron in 2001. The case was initially brought to court in the United States but was dismissed and relocated to an Ecuadorean court.

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Energy Policy in Latin America: A Cross Roads of Environmentalism, Indigenous Rights and Development