Privacy and autonomy: Redefining boundaries for Indigenous communities

'The government tried to sell our lands to the oil companies without our permission. Our rainforest is our life. We decide what happens in our lands. We will never sell our rainforest to the oil companies.'

'Despite legal protection, Maasai in Ngorongoro have faced broken promises, restrictions on securing livelihoods, diminished social services, and now threats of eviction.'

Both cases highlight the struggle against the colonial history of land dispossession faced by Indigenous peoples. The land is often viewed as a commodity to be exchanged for profit.

Read at Privacy International