Gáldu www.galdu.org WASHINGTON, DC, USA -- Twelve civil society organizations have urged the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, to conduct a formal investigation into the human rights impacts of the Barro Blanco dam located on the Tabasará River in Panama. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6160&giella1=eng GABORONE, Botswana -- Dozens of Botswana San threatened with eviction, reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a ‘wildlife corridor’, have won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6161&giella1=eng TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- The carbon trade doesn´t just fail to address climate change. In countries like Honduras, it funnels cash to notorious human rights abusers and threatens vital resources. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6159&giella1=eng MEXICO CITY -- “We can’t sow our fields, which they have rented for next to nothing. What good do we get out of it?” Guadalupe Ramírez complained about wind farms operating in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6158&giella1=eng ROME, Italy -- Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6157&giella1=eng GIRKE LEGE, Syria -- A ban on political and even social gatherings, a bar on Kurdish language and culture; uprooting people, forced disappearances and a ‘caste’ of hundreds of thousands of local Kurds deprived of citizenship… life for Kurds in pre-war Syria was probably as dire as it is today for their kin in Iran. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6156&giella1=eng SANTIAGO, Chile -- Indigenous leaders denounce lack of political will of authorities to implement rights guaranteed by international conventions. In his last state-of-the-nation message on May 21 in Valparaíso, President Sebastián Piñera dedicated less than three minutes to the indigenous peoples. In those few minutes, the president stressed the government´s progress in this area, specifically the "new deal" in relation to the indigenous peoples. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6154&giella1=eng FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA, Canada -- Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Fort Chipewyan First Nation has issued a formal request to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Alberta Premier Allison Redford to join the fourth annual Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray on July 6. A fourteen-kilometre, day-long journey, hosted by the Keepers of the Athabasca, the Healing Walk is a spiritual gathering focused on healing the traditional territory of the nations that has been impacted by tar sands expansion. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6155&giella1=eng OTTAWA, Canada -- The impact of persistent conditions of disadvantage on the daily lives of Aboriginal people is documented in a new report released by the Canadian Human Rights Commission today. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6153&giella1=eng MIKINDANI, Tanzania -- In Kilwa District in southern Tanzania local community leader and fisherman Salim Riziki stands next to a set of turbines, newly imported from Dubai, talking about the gas finds on Songo Songo, an island 15 km off the mainland. http://www.galdu.org/web/?odas=6150&giella1=eng