While the world focuses on COVID-19, Indigenous Peoples in Myanmar are being killed

Written on 28 April 2020.

Photo by Signe Leth // IWGIA

As large parts of the world’s population are sitting at home in self- and authority-imposed isolation watching the development of the major public health crisis, governments in some countries are taking advantage of the situation and moving on with their repressive agendas cracking down on opposition groups, silencing human rights defenders and independent media, and subjecting entire ethnic groups to brutal military campaigns.  

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Inter-American Court on Human Rights: Pandemic and Human Rights in the Americas

Written on 28 April 2020.

IWGIA echoes the essential call for responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic to consider Indigenous Peoples and their human rights, as Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) resolution states:  

The Americas experience the highest levels of inequality in the world, characterised by profound social divides where poverty and extreme poverty are problems that cut across all countries of the region. The COVID-19 pandemic is having different, intersectional impacts on the realisation of the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of certain groups that are particularly vulnerable.

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ACHPR Press Release: Impact of the COVID-19 Virus on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa

Written on 28 April 2020.

The Working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa (Working Group), a Special Mechanism of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission), is closely following the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in Africa.

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Indigenous realities in a COVID-19 world: Asia - Lessons Learned

Written on 27 April 2020.