Indigenous Groups

The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (2021) | Throughout 2020, Indigenous Peoples were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including with increased food insecurity. Indigenous Peoples proved their resilience by setting up their own networks and solutions, connecting communities to help transfer information and goods, and implementing traditional methods of protection to keep themselves safe from the virus and the intrusion of outsiders who potentially carried it. Nonetheless, as the pandemic spread, Indigenous Peoples continued to be persecuted, threatened, criminalised and killed in their efforts to defend their rights.