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Safeguarding traditional knowledge and biogenetic materials has become a major issue among indigenous peoples. The article explores what is at stake for indigenous communities as well as possible frameworks for protecting resources and knowledge.

This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter is dedicated to Juana Aliaga (cover) and her Sisters of this hemisphere.

Decree 1775 in Brazil threatens to make native lands vulnerable to outside aggression.

The Council of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Brazil discuss how Decree 1775 is more than a setback; it 's a death sentence for many Indigenous groups.

This article details the growing issue of demarcation of Indigenous lands, by the Decree 1775 by Nelson Jobim who used this decree to allow private and state institutions to use this indigenous land for economical gain.

This declaration states the end of the Floating Rivers Seminar, in which indigenous peoples went down the river to protest for more sustainable measures to be taken in the construction of industrial waterways.

The following article is a list of issues to be addressed by the congress meeting in response to the massacre of the Ashaninka indigenous peoples in the village of Mazamari

Declaration #141 of the '92 Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro

A declaration affirming that the human rights of indigenous peoples across the world need further protection.