Malaysia should move swiftly to strengthen its proposed National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights by ensuring that ...

Malaysia’s recent mass evictions of the Bajau Laut are just the latest example. The region is home to between 90 and 125 million Indigenous people. Their concerns need to be reflected in the ...

(Photo: CNA/Aqil Haziq Mahmud) The Federal Constitution protects the rights of the indigenous people of Malaysia, including proprietary interest in their land itself. But the National Land Code ...

Indonesia, despite the third constitutional amendment that recognizes and respects traditional communities, still denies ...

Last year, our coalition wrote to Anwar Ibrahim, calling for Malaysia to enact legislation to prevent strategic lawsuits against public participation, better known as SLAPPs, adopt the United Nations ...

We have to keep it alive for the younger generations.” This weekend, In Pictures looks at how the indigenous Mah Meri people in Malaysia celebrate an ancient tradition and why the event holds ...

The Tropical Rainforest Collection (TRLC) Banun, an NGO in Malaysia, focuses on restoring the Amanjaya Forest Reserve by employing and training Jahai indigenous communities to propagate endangered ...

as such “initiatives have been implemented by indigenous peoples in Malaysia, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Nepal,” Robeliza Halip, the interim executive director of the REP ...

The focus of this conference is on the health of the people living in indigenous communities which are closely tied to the land that they inhabit. Limited access to health services, pollution, land ...