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Closing the Gap Initiative Fails to Meet Targets, Exacerbating Inequality
Australia's Closing the Gap initiative is failing to meet most targets, with only four of nineteen goals on track, despite some improvement in education and housing. Key areas like adult imprisonment rates and child welfare are worsening, highlighting a continued systemic inequality.
Closing the Gap Initiative Fails to Meet Targets, Exacerbating Inequality
Australia's Closing the Gap initiative is failing to meet most targets, with only four of nineteen goals on track, despite some improvement in education and housing. Key areas like adult imprisonment rates and child welfare are worsening, highlighting a continued systemic inequality.
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44% Bias Score
CPB Funding Cuts Threaten Alaska Native Radio Stations
President Trump's $1.1 billion cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatens 36 tribally licensed radio and TV stations, including Alaska's KBRW, which serves 10,000 people across eight villages and relies on CPB for 40% of its funding, jeopardizing local news, safety alerts, and cultural...
CPB Funding Cuts Threaten Alaska Native Radio Stations
President Trump's $1.1 billion cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatens 36 tribally licensed radio and TV stations, including Alaska's KBRW, which serves 10,000 people across eight villages and relies on CPB for 40% of its funding, jeopardizing local news, safety alerts, and cultural...
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44% Bias Score
Bill C-5 sparks conflict between Indigenous economic interests and treaty rights
Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, allows the Canadian government to bypass certain laws to expedite project approvals, raising concerns among Indigenous groups about the potential violation of treaty rights and the duty to consult; Indigenous-led businesses have conflicting opinions, some seei...
Bill C-5 sparks conflict between Indigenous economic interests and treaty rights
Bill C-5, the One Canadian Economy Act, allows the Canadian government to bypass certain laws to expedite project approvals, raising concerns among Indigenous groups about the potential violation of treaty rights and the duty to consult; Indigenous-led businesses have conflicting opinions, some seei...
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48% Bias Score
Korubo Contact: A Decade of Change in the Amazon
The Korubo, an Amazonian tribe, experienced first contact in multiple waves between 1996 and 2015, resulting in access to healthcare and goods but also exposing them to diseases, dependencies, and cultural shifts; four infants died in the past year due to illnesses.
Korubo Contact: A Decade of Change in the Amazon
The Korubo, an Amazonian tribe, experienced first contact in multiple waves between 1996 and 2015, resulting in access to healthcare and goods but also exposing them to diseases, dependencies, and cultural shifts; four infants died in the past year due to illnesses.
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60% Bias Score
Canadian PM assures Inuit of Bill C-5 treaty compliance
Prime Minister Mark Carney assured Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed that the Building Canada Act (Bill C-5) will respect modern treaties and include Inuit as full partners in project development, following concerns about potential treaty infringements.
Canadian PM assures Inuit of Bill C-5 treaty compliance
Prime Minister Mark Carney assured Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed that the Building Canada Act (Bill C-5) will respect modern treaties and include Inuit as full partners in project development, following concerns about potential treaty infringements.
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40% Bias Score
Carney to Meet with Inuit Leaders on Bill C-5 Amid Treaty Concerns
Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Inuit leaders Thursday to discuss Bill C-5, legislation that could impact their treaty rights; this follows a larger summit with First Nations who also voiced concerns; the Inuit have modern treaties, potentially simplifying discussions, but concerns persist...
Carney to Meet with Inuit Leaders on Bill C-5 Amid Treaty Concerns
Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with Inuit leaders Thursday to discuss Bill C-5, legislation that could impact their treaty rights; this follows a larger summit with First Nations who also voiced concerns; the Inuit have modern treaties, potentially simplifying discussions, but concerns persist...
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40% Bias Score
Prince William Champions Indigenous-Led Conservation at London Climate Action Week
Prince William urged increased support for Indigenous-led conservation efforts during a London Climate Action Week roundtable, attended by global leaders and Indigenous representatives, emphasizing their crucial role in achieving climate and biodiversity goals.
Prince William Champions Indigenous-Led Conservation at London Climate Action Week
Prince William urged increased support for Indigenous-led conservation efforts during a London Climate Action Week roundtable, attended by global leaders and Indigenous representatives, emphasizing their crucial role in achieving climate and biodiversity goals.
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40% Bias Score
Coroner Recommends Prison Healthcare Overhaul Following Aboriginal Woman's Death
A Victorian coroner has recommended wide-ranging improvements to prison healthcare after a 30-year-old Aboriginal woman, Heather Calgaret, died in Dame Phyllis Frost prison in November 2021 from respiratory failure likely triggered by inappropriately prescribed opiate replacement therapy; the corone...
Coroner Recommends Prison Healthcare Overhaul Following Aboriginal Woman's Death
A Victorian coroner has recommended wide-ranging improvements to prison healthcare after a 30-year-old Aboriginal woman, Heather Calgaret, died in Dame Phyllis Frost prison in November 2021 from respiratory failure likely triggered by inappropriately prescribed opiate replacement therapy; the corone...
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48% Bias Score
Ecuador Ordered to Protect Last Isolated Indigenous Groups
On March 13, 2024, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador must protect the Tagaeri and Taromenane, Ecuador's last voluntarily isolated indigenous groups, from threats like oil extraction and illegal logging, following a 19-year legal battle.
Ecuador Ordered to Protect Last Isolated Indigenous Groups
On March 13, 2024, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador must protect the Tagaeri and Taromenane, Ecuador's last voluntarily isolated indigenous groups, from threats like oil extraction and illegal logging, following a 19-year legal battle.
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24% Bias Score
Guyana's Gold Rush: Balancing Economic Growth and Rainforest Preservation
In Guyana, gold mining, primarily from nearly 3,000 small and medium-sized mines, contributed to almost two-thirds of the nearly 10,000 hectares of deforestation in 2023, despite the country's overall low deforestation rate of 0.053%, highlighting the conflict between economic needs and environmenta...
Guyana's Gold Rush: Balancing Economic Growth and Rainforest Preservation
In Guyana, gold mining, primarily from nearly 3,000 small and medium-sized mines, contributed to almost two-thirds of the nearly 10,000 hectares of deforestation in 2023, despite the country's overall low deforestation rate of 0.053%, highlighting the conflict between economic needs and environmenta...
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40% Bias Score
Muscogee Nation Grants Citizenship to Descendants of Enslaved People
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation supreme court granted tribal citizenship to Rhonda Grayson and Jeffrey Kennedy, descendants of those enslaved by the tribe, overturning a lower court decision and citing an 1866 treaty; the ruling mandates future enrollment based on Dawes or Freedmen Roll ancestry.
Muscogee Nation Grants Citizenship to Descendants of Enslaved People
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation supreme court granted tribal citizenship to Rhonda Grayson and Jeffrey Kennedy, descendants of those enslaved by the tribe, overturning a lower court decision and citing an 1866 treaty; the ruling mandates future enrollment based on Dawes or Freedmen Roll ancestry.
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20% Bias Score
B.C. First Nations Reject Proposed Oil Pipeline
Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, demanding the rejection of any new crude oil pipeline proposals to their northwest coast, citing environmental risks and upholding their 2010 ban on oil tankers in their territorial waters based on an...
B.C. First Nations Reject Proposed Oil Pipeline
Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, demanding the rejection of any new crude oil pipeline proposals to their northwest coast, citing environmental risks and upholding their 2010 ban on oil tankers in their territorial waters based on an...
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48% Bias Score
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