Indigenous Emancipation: The Fight Against Marginalisation, Criminalisation, and Oppression

This thematic issue addresses the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples in protecting their rights and maintaining unique cultures ways of life. Despite residing on all continents possessing distinct social, cultural, economic, political characteristics, have historically oppression violation rights. Measures to protect are gradually being recognized international community, but ongoing issues such as illegal deforestation, mining, land clearances continue desecrate sacred sites oppress peoples. women youth particularly vulnerable, facing higher levels gender‐based violence overrepresentation judicial sentencing statistics. Land be threatened natural resource extraction, infrastructure projects, large‐scale agricultural expansion, conservation orders. There is also a heightened risk statelessness for whose traditional lands cross national borders, leading displacement, attacks, killings, criminalization.