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Myanmar resistance leaders and international human rights groups are welcoming a new round of U.S. sanctions aimed at that country’s oil and gas sector, a major source of revenue for the ruling junta that seized power in February 2021. Additional sanctions announced simultaneously by the United...
The Biden administration on Wednesday broadly eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector in response to a deal reached between the government and opposition parties for the 2024 election—the most extensive rollback of Trump-era restrictions on Caracas. A new general license issued by the U.S...
A coalition—the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)—advocating for Native American people impacted by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths, plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers...
U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered his administration to begin sharing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), a U.S official said on Wednesday. The Pentagon had been resistant to the move and privately argued that any cooperation...
As the United States enacts numerous policies that critics say restrict access to asylum, rights groups have expressed concern that such policies could have especially severe impacts on Indigenous migrants. While narrowing asylum pathways has thrown life into flux for many of those seeking refuge in...
Crews working on finding mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are moving forward on another step in the process. The city announced another two-day test excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery this week and it kicks off this Thursday morning. This excavation is not about searching for graves like we...
An Oklahoma judge dismissed the reparations lawsuit filed by the last three known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre on Friday, court records show. The three had been locked in a yearslong court battle against the City of Tulsa and other groups and officials over the opportunities taken from them...
The United States government does not have a responsibility to “take affirmative steps to secure water” for the Navajo Nation, the US Supreme Court has ruled, dealing a blow to the Indigenous community’s efforts to outline its water rights amid historic drought. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday morning...
One of the most horrifying episodes in American history spanned just two days in 1921, when at least 300 people were killed on May 31 and June 1. The attack by a white mob on African Americans in Greenwood became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. While documentaries have told the story of what...
Calls are once again ringing out in Canada and the United States for action to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls, a persistent problem that has devastated communities across North America for decades. This Friday marks Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in the US...