Guyana — One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over their land in remote ...

Guyana’s historical protection of its huge ... There was expected criticism of the Government by the Amerindian People’s Association (APA), an NGO that agitates for Amerindian rights, which ...

In this interview with the Guyana Review the former President of the Amerindian People’s Association (APA) and the APA’s legal adviser argues that Amerindians must exert more collective ...

The story is familiar to pastoral workers in the southern Guyana region known as Rupununi, where most villages are home to Macushi or Wapishana Amerindians, as indigenous people are known in this ...

A GROWING national effort to immunise young people against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is gaining momentum, with First ...

Amerindian communities in Guyana have raised concerns that Venezuela ... long-standing issue of not fully recognizing Indigenous people’s territorial lands,” Atkinson told Mongabay.

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