A leader in an Indigenous rights group, Vasquez said such efforts were long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development, which spent billions of dollars ...

While Indigenous peoples only make up about 6% of the global population, they are responsible for safeguarding 80% of the planet’s biodiversity, according to a report by The World Bank.

USAID’s work reached Indigenous communities around the world. It sought to mitigate the effects of human rights abuses in South America, created programs in Africa to enable Indigenous people to ...

Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world Cut-down trees lie near the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru’s Amazon Forest on Oct. 3, 2022 ...

The adviser advocated for Indigenous rights in foreign assistance programs, including actions by the World Bank. “That provided Indigenous people everywhere with a way to be heard here in ...

In this photo provided by Vy Lam shows Lam, a former adviser on Indigenous peoples at the U.S. Agency for International Development, on the floor of the United Nations during Sec. of the Interior ...

The State Department does not plan to fulfill its pledge to fund the remaining four years of the grant to help Indigenous peoples travel to the U.N. and other world bodies. In most cases, people ...