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Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying

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By Dionne Phillips, Tristan Ahtone Verified
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This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted a landmark declaration on Indigenous rights, advocates say countries still aren’t living up to their promises to uphold and respect those rights. Indigenous people are being killed for protecting their territories, criminalized for practicing their culture, and seeing their lands stripped of resources without consent.
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AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous land protection, UN experts warn

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By Aimee Gabay, Tristan Ahtone Verified
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This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is helping Indigenous communities detect illegal logging, track wildfires, and monitoring of traditional lands. But the data centers powering AI are driving new threats, requiring water, energy, and critical minerals often extracted from Indigenous territories.
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Indigenous land defenders are being killed, AI is scraping their knowledge

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By Michael Cugley, Tristan Ahtone Verified
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This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalized at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence — crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the United Nations, where they warned that the fight for health and sovereignty now extends from traditional territories into digital spaces.
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