UNESCO defines indigenous knowledge as the knowledge, innovations, and practices of indigenous and local communities that have been developed over generations and passed down either orally or through ...

Social work is rooted in the principles of care, advocacy, and justice, but its application looks different across cultures.

The urgent call to decolonise climate risk scholarship, highlights the marginalisation of Indigenous knowledge and its ...

Lara A. Jacobs, editor; Oregon State University Press, 2025; 440 pages; $39.95. In recent years, in Alaska and elsewhere, Indigenous knowledge has found respect and inclusion in scientific research ...

Grand Entry at the Black Hills Powwow in Rapid City, S.D. As I sit at my grandmother’s oval-shaped wooden table, I feel a warm summer breeze through the open window. I ask her again how to pronounce ...

For more than 30 years, the United Nations has helped support research positions at universities to delve into the most pressing issues facing humanity: climate change, sustainable development, peace, ...

Indigenous rights, knowledge, and value systems are linked inextricably to the lands, waters, and non-human beings that form the environments of Indigenous Peoples. Across the globe, the rights of ...

Nepal, July 29 -- On May 18, 2025, the Government of Nepal concluded its much-anticipated climate change conference by adopting a 25-point "Sagarmatha Call for Action." Point 20 of the declaration ...

As the world gathers this week in Addis Ababa for the second stocktake of the U.N. Food Systems Summit (UNFSS+4), the urgency of transforming food systems into more resilient, sustainable and ...