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Argentine Minister launches attack on Bristol-based indigenous rights organisation amid British funded terrorism controversy
Argentine security minister Patricia Bullrich has made serious allegations about Bristol-based voluntary organisation, Mapuche International Link, accusing them and the British Government of supporting terrorism in Patagonia’s conflict MORE

False Allegations Against Mapuche International Link by Argentinian Government
"The Minister also wants to divert the public’s attention away from the disappearance of Santiago Maldonado and so stop the growing public protest demanding his reappearance after being arrested by the police.” MORE

Statement by Dame Nina Ahmed at the 33th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
States unethical approach to indigenous rights as enshrined in the UNDRIP, including the right to development must be urgently addressed at both national and international levels MORE

Chilean Exiles & Students Protest Bachelet's London Visit as Chiloe Ecological Disaster Rages
Today, Mapuche Indigenous people are being subjected to military force with serious allegations of illegal detentions and torture, all under Bachelet's watch' MORE

Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia Celebrates 74th Birthday of HRH Prince Antoine IV
Amidst an atmosphere of high energy, the much anticipated Royal event was well attended by visiting dignitaries, friends and supporters of the Kingdom, as well as its distinguished officials MORE

Written statement submitted by Auspice Stella to the UN Human Rights Council on the Mapuche Human Rights Situation
The increase of monoculture eucalyptus and pine, to the detriment of native forests and agricultural land, in addition to destroying ecosystems and damage to the environment, has compromised the food security of future generations MORE

Repression against the Mapuche people in Chile
On February 10, Mapuche people in Lleu Lleu in Southern Chile were subject to brutal police repression. They were beaten, arrested and their vehicles were burned by state agents MORE

Mapuche Nation: Hector Llaitul, spokesman of Mapuche Communities: “Our struggle is against forestry extractivism but never against our worker brothers”
The spokesman for the Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), Hector Llaitul, referred to the situation MORE

Chile: Indigenous Mapuche leader Carbone violently arrested
A group of 15 police special forces (GOPE) in three different vehicles command him to leave his car and soon start to beaten Mijael Carbone Queipul according to eyewitnesses MORE

Chile's Mapuche-Pehuenche: 10 years after relocation
The indigenous people of one community say they are still patiently waiting for the compensation they were promised a decade ago after being displaced from their homes MORE

Chile: Indigenous Mapuches Say Governor Using Pinochet Anti-Terrorism Bill Against Them
A Chilean governor in the southern province of La Araucania is under fire for invoking a Pinochet-era anti-terrorism law after a failed bomb attack targeting regional capital Temuco’s prison MORE

CAM Claims Series of Actions Against Hydroelectric Dams and Forestry Companies in Wallmapu
We also claim the actions of sabotage, under the Nagche Pelentaro ORT-CAM, against the logging machinery in the Santa Elvira estate, in the township of Capitan Pastene, Lumaco MORE

Mapuche: Police Raid in Malleco
On Sunday 3 January 2016, the police raided a Mapuche community in Malleco using teargas MORE

Galvarino, the Mapuche Warrior with Knives for Hands
My brethren, why have you stopped fighting these Christians? The damage they have done since they entered our realm, and what they have done to me, is what they will continue to do if we are not diligent in destroying these injurious people MORE

Mapuche Woman Acquitted by Intercultural Jury
A Mapuche woman from Neuquén was found not guilty of attempted murder by the first intercultural jury trial in Latin America yesterday MORE

Mapuche: How Chile Use Terrorism to Demonise the Indigenous Peoples
When asked about the social conditions and legal protection of indigenous peoples in Chile, Ms Ñamku spoke about the deterioration of relations between the Mapuche and the Chilean authorities MORE

Chile: Human rights defender Juana Calfunao arbitrarily detained and then released
On 28 October 2015, human rights defender and indigenous leader, Ms Juana Calfunao Paillalef, was arbitrarily and violently arrested MORE

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Chief Juana Calfunao Paillalef Receives Unprecedented Support from International Community in the USA
She spoke of the long history of violence and criminalization which has been applied to the community and to the Chief’s, and in particular to her family over four generations MORE

Indigenous Mapuche Leader, Chief Juana Calfunao Carries a Torch of Hope for her Nation to the Heart of America
Traditional Mapuche authority Chief Juana Calfunao Paillalef arrived in Washington DC, USA, to present a case for her peoples legitimate claim to ancestral territorial land rights, at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission MORE

Mapuche: Activists Condemn Minister’s Opposition to Autonomous Self-Government
After the Chilean Minister of the Interior, Jorge Burgos, declared that Mapuche’s intention to set up an autonomous self-government is ‘against the law’, activists have promptly condemned his disregard of International Law and indigenous rights MORE

Mapuche Territorial Resistance Group of the CAM claim responsibility for Sabotage
The Mapuche Territorial Resistance Group Lafkenche Laftraru of the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Communities in Conflict (CAM) communicate the following to the Mapuche Nation and public opinion: MORE

Mapuche: Chilean Security Forces Hostile towards Occupiers
Mapuche Indigenous leaders criticized the Chilean government’s handling of an incident that took place on Monday in which Chilean military troops stormed the offices of the National Corporation of Indigenous Development (Conadi) MORE

Mapuche: Activists to Set Up Autonomous Self-Government
In response to the Chilean government’s refusal to negotiate and use of violence against Mapuche protesters, several activists including Aucán Huilcamán, head of the Council of All the Lands, have decided to declare autonomy MORE

Mapuche: Open Letter Written by Mapuche to Chilean President
We are communities that, historically, have struggled, with our ancestral lands usurped by the violence of the Chilean State MORE

Inalienable Rights of Colonized Peoples
A Call for Establishing an "Internal Decolonization Committee" by the General Assembly of the United Nations
Mapuche nation well-established political, judicial and governance systems based on like todays democratic principles. Furthermore, in 1860 a constitutional kingdom in Araucanía and Patagonia was founded by the Mapuche people MORE

Outrage over decision to let Chilean navy 'torture ship' dock in London
Chilean political refugees in Britain have reacted with outrage at the decision to allow the Chilean navy ship Esmeralda to dock in London MORE

Clashes between Mapuche and Truck Drivers at Blockade against Arsons
Violent clashes broke out in front of Chile’s presidential palace on Thursday as truck drivers blocking roads outside Santiago reached the capital to protest against arson attacks by indigenous rights militants MORE

Mapuche: Ranquil Community Occupies Agency for Indigenous Development in Temuco
On 17 August 2015, approximately 100 Mapuches occupied the building of the National Agency for Indigenous Development (Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena – CONADI) in Temuco to protest police repression and human rights violations MORE

Mapuche indigenous culture goes mainstream in Chile, becomes increasingly popular abroad
Nestled between high-rise buildings on a busy street in Chile's modern capital is a straw hut that's a sign of growing respect for the Andean country's long-disdained indigenous past MORE

UNPO Submits Report on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with Respect to their Cultural Heritage
Yesterday, 16 February 2015, UNPO submitted a report on the promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples with respect to their cultural heritage to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), as a contribution to a study carried out by the Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples MORE

UNPO Visits Mapuche Occupation Protest in Chile: "People of the Land Conquering One Pine Tree at a Time"
On 12 December 2014, a UNPO representative was taken to an [undisclosed] site and introduced to local Mapuche activists participating in a self-organized protest for the recovery of their ancestral lands usurped by tree farming companies growing non-native pines and eucalyptus trees on an industrial scale in the south of Chile MORE

3rd Toronto Mapuche Solidarity Film Festival
In memory of our WEICHAFE [WARRIORS] MATIAS CATRILEO & ALEX LEMUN, & the many others who have been murdered by the repressive forces of the Chilean State MORE

Mapuche: Indigenous Peoples Should Be Allowed to Decide About Their Future
In the case of the Mapuche, we have to have the possibility to decide our own future MORE

Chile: Mapuche March Demands Justice for Matias Catrileo
Today’s commemoration march in Santiago was met by more police violence. 21 arbitrary, violent arrests were made including a minor who may be facing a charge for possession of a Molotov MORE

Hector Llaitul pushes for Parole unto Concepcion Court of Appeals
The leader of the Arauco Malleco Cordinator is soliciting the Concepcion Court of Appeals to revoke the decision made by the parole board, which denied his claim last November MORE

Mapuche Stories Woven into QR Codes
Bert is a Chilean artist who migrated to the USA during the Pinochet era. In his new home, he developed a career making politically-charged art, drawing on the use of barcodes as signifiers of restricted information MORE

Mapuche Community Given ‘Benetton Land’ Titles
The National Institute for Indigenous Affairs (INAI) has formally recognised the Santa Rosa Leleque Mapuche community’s ownership of 535 hectares in Chubut, Patagonia MORE

Mapuche: Communities Draft Proposal for Law on Education in Argentina
Some Mapuche communities handed a proposal over to the vicegovernor Ana Penchen for the debate of the Ley de Educación, during a meeting that took place in Zapala, which shows the political will to incorporate the concept of “interculturality” in future legislation MORE

Defenders of Kintuante: Analysis by the defense of the trial and sentence convicting Machi Millaray Huichalaf, Chile, November 2014
On Thursday November 13 the verdict was given in the trial held against two Machi, Millaray Huichalaf and Tito Cañulef and two other defenders of "Kintuante" accused of Arson on the estate Pisu Pisue MORE

Chile: Police knocked a Mapuche minor of Mapuche community Mallekoche unconscious, November 18, 2014
A Mapuche minor of the community Mallekoche in the Malleko province was brutally assaulted by police after being arrested during a protest inside an estate against against a company affecting Mapuche ceremonial grounds MORE

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Demonstration in support of the Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike
A call from Mapuche organisations in Santiago

mapuche demonstration
Letter handed to the Chilean Representative to the UK. Mapuche International Link hold a public demonstration on Thursday (May 26) in support of four Mapuche political prisoners now entering DAY 70 of their hunger strike protest. MORE

Conference

Tuesday 29th
September, 2015
12:00 Hs.
Palais des Nations
Geneva.

Internal Decolonization
Auspice Stella side Event at the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.

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Photo: Reynaldo Mariqueo and Mr. Rafael Moreno, Chilean Ambassador to the UK
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A photos of the demonstration which took place on June 2, 2011 in support of the Mapuche political prisoners on hunger strike

Photos: UK NGO’s appeal to Chile for justice for jailed Mapuche hunger strikers/Day 80 MORE

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INDIGENOUS FIGHT TO KEEP LAND IN CHILE
For the indigenous Pehuenches, the Bio-Bio River is sacred. According to their traditions, if the river is not respected, Mother Earth will get angry, nearby volcanoes will erupt and the land will tremble with earthquakes. MORE
- Special Article from the Washington Times

OTHER NEWS

Shale Oil Fuels Indigenous Conflict in Argentina

Palín: Playing for Mapuche rights

Mapuche: Families Occupy Ancestral Lands in Peaceful Protest

Chile: local Mapuche leader murdered

Mapuche Representatives Raise Indigenous Rights at European Institutions

UNPO Celebrates Indigenous Resistance in Amsterdam

Roth: Hydroelectric dams threaten access to water, way of life for Mapuche people

March brings Mapuche grievances to the capital on ‘Columbus Day’

Neuquén: Mapuche Community Blocks Access to Shale Oil Field

Mapuches March in Santiago This Sunday

Youth sympathizes with Mapuche, public policy falters