Of the 370 million Indigenous people in the world, belonging to 5,000 different groups, in 90 countries worldwide, a 150 million are tribal people living in more than 60 countries.
Although Indigenous and tribal people’s land ownership rights are recognized in international law, they are not properly respected anywhere.
1 Indigenous communities and the environments they maintain are increasingly under assault from mining, oil, dam building, logging, and agro-industrial projects.
2 Here are the stories of some of their struggles: