SAMI SELF-DETERMINATION
AUTONOMY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT: EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND CULTURE
Indigenous Children’s Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? A Global View
The Convention on the Rights of the Child and Sámi children in Norway
Sami Self-Determination: Scope and Implementation
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
 
 
 
 
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous
peoples, James Anaya
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
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Credit: mtv3. Pekka Haavisto and Sauli Niinistö, running for President of Finland.
Finnish Presidential Contest No More Between Right and Left
HELSINKI, Finland -- In an uncharacteristically lively election campaign in this nation of five million people, Finns head for the polls in a second round of voting Sunday to elect a new president.
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05.02.2012
Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS. UNICEF´s funding shortfall could leave millions of children like these searching for a living in garbage. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS
UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world.
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05.02.2012
. Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet.Women´s Progress Threatened by Political and Economic Turmoil
UNITED NATIONS -- As UN Women celebrated its first birthday, its executive director Michelle Bachelet stressed that political upheveal and shrinking budgets are no excuse to push back the hard-won gains made by the women´s movement globally.
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05.02.2012
. Displaced Indigenous Community Wins Land Dispute in Paraguay
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay -- A land deal finalized this week between Paraguayan authorities and a land owner in the country’s central region will allow a long-displaced indigenous community to rebuild in safety and dignity, Amnesty International said today.
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03.02.2012
Credit:Clarinha Glock/IPS. Global Connections meeting, part of the Thematic Social Forum. Credit:Clarinha Glock/IPS
"Occupy" is the Watchword at Thematic Social Forum of Homeless and Landless
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- Traditional social movements of homeless and landless people have for years been organising occupations as a pressure tactic. Now "occupying" is a key element for fighting the capitalist system in its hour of crisis, and also in the realm of virtual reality.
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03.02.2012
Photo credit: AFP/ Getty Images. According Amnesty International Canada it is important to stop discrimination against indigenous children. This is from Norway House Cree Nation in Canada.Canadian First Nations Children Face Crisis, Youth Advocates Tell UN
TORONTO, Canada -- An alliance of child advocates from across Canada will brief the United Nations next week on the crisis facing aboriginal children.
The Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates plans to use its appearance before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to press for a national strategy to deal with the problem.
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03.02.2012
. Map of Africa Weak Land Rights Promote Land Rush; New Study
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Weak land rights, violation of traditional customary rights on forest, rangelands and marshlands are the major factors promoting global land rush especially in developing countries, says a new study released by Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a coalition of international, regional and community organizations engaged in development, research and conservation to advance forest tenure, policy and market reforms globally.
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02.02.2012
Credit:Sam Lewis/IPS. Activists and employees accuse Darden of racism and violations of state and federal labour practices. Credit:Sam Lewis/IPS
Racial Discrimination Alleged at World´s Largest Restaurant Group
NEW YORK -- An organisation of restaurant workers is suing Darden Restaurants, the largest full-service restaurant group in the world, in U.S. federal court, alleging widespread racial discrimination and illegal labour practices.
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02.02.2012
Credit:UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré. Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Credit:UN Photo/Jean-Marc FerréUN Expert Asks China to Give Tibetans Their Lands Back
UNITED NATIONS, Geneva -- The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr Olivier De Schutter, has, on Jan 31, called on China to suspend its forced resettlement of Tibetan nomadic herders from their traditional lands.
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02.02.2012
. UN Indigenous Peoples Rights Expert to Carry out Official Visit to the United States
TUCSON, USA -- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Professor James Anaya, will carry out an official visit to the United States of America from 23 April to 4 May 2012.
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02.02.2012
More than 600 people marched on July 3, 2007 in Lago Agrio to protest Chevron's delaying tactics in. Oil Giant Chevron Seeks Taxpayer Bailout from $18 Billion Ecuador Judgment
QUITO, Ecuador -- Facing devastating setbacks in the courts of two countries over its $18 billion Ecuador liability, Chevron is now seeking a taxpayer-funded bailout for the clean-up costs of its environmental catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest, said a lawyer for the Ecuadorians.
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02.02.2012
Copyright:. Indigenous Groups Urge Thailand to Stop Expulsion of Karen People from Their Land
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Indigenous peoples´ organisations urge the Government of Thailand to take immediate action to stop the expulsion of the indigenous Karen people from their ancestral lands in the north-western region of Thailand.
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01.02.2012
Credit:Courtesy of UNOPS. Local residents continue to use water from the depleted Coco River, despite the signs prohibiting it. Credit:Courtesy of UNOPS
Re-Greening the Border Between Honduras and Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Ignacia Matute looks back nostalgically on the days when the hills around her home in northwestern Nicaragua were blanketed in green, and she woke every morning to the sounds of birds singing in the treetops and the rushing waters of the nearly Coco River.
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01.02.2012
Credit:Jefri Aries/IRIN. Papua has witnessed a low-level separatist insurgency since the 1960s. Credit: Jefri Aries/IRIN
Human Rights Groups Urge Release of Papuan Activists
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Human rights groups have urged Indonesian authorities to drop treason charges against five activists in the easternmost province of Papua.
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31.01.2012
And At Last There Was Water for the Bedouin Village
BIR EL-BASHA, Occupied West Bank -- Only days ago, turning on the tap was cause for concern. Would there be running water? Now, it’s reason for celebration.
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31.01.2012
Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
KARACHI, Pakistan -- "It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience.
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30.01.2012
Working Towards a Never-Ending Democracy
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil -- For five centuries, Europe has taken it upon itself to enlighten the world, teaching it ways to address and overcome crises, from ideas and wars to missionary work and genocides.
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30.01.2012
Former Dictator Ríos Montt to Stand Trial for Guatemalan Genocide
GUATEMALA CITY -- After a hearing that lasted more than 11 hours, a Guatemalan court ordered the trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt (1982-1983), who could face up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
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28.01.2012
Male Activists Enhance Pre and Postnatal Care in Remote Villages
BHUBANESHWAR, India -- The indigenous Juang tribe in remote Nola village on Chandragiri hill experienced its first three institutional childbirths only a month ago.
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28.01.2012
Community Radio Flourishes Online in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
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27.01.2012
Senior Management Heads Roll at the United Nations
UNITED NATIONS -- As Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues his search for a new team of senior managers for his second five-year term in office which began Jan. 1, two more heads have rolled at the world body.
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26.01.2012
In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far More Than Gold
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area´s sole source of drinking water.
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26.01.2012
Indigenous Pastoralists Clash over Livestock as Impacts of Climate Change Take Toll
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Barely a few months from the aftermath of severe drought and famine that hit most parts of the country, several indigenous pastoralist communities that inhabit in Northern Kenya are still reeling from effects of climate change.
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25.01.2012
Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict in South Sudan
PIBOR, South Sudan -- In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor county that killed her mother and sisters.
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24.01.2012
Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development in Papua New Guinea
PORT MORESBY, PNG -- Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living.
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24.01.2012
Recovery from Chilean Forest Fire Could Take 80 Years
SANTIAGO, Chile -- "It´s extremely serious, a full-blown environmental catastrophe," environmentalist Sara Larrain told IPS, describing the impact of the fire that has been raging through the Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia since Dec. 27.
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23.01.2012
Burma Dismantling a Dictatorship - Peacefully
BANGKOK, Thailand -- As he dismantles a 50-year military dictatorship without a shot being fired, Burmese President Thein Sein is resorting to the political art of compromise.
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23.01.2012
The Canadian Government Announces 18 New Entrants to First Nations Land Management Regime
OTTAWA, Canada -- The Government of Canada announced that eighteen more First Nations will soon begin a process to opt out of the 34 land-related sections of the Indian Act and assume control over their reserve land and resources.
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23.01.2012
Council of Europe Urges Finnish Government to Initiate Dialogue on Sami Land Rights
HELSINKI, Finland -- The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe gave Finland its recommendations on the position of national minorities on 19 January. Finland received three recommendations that would require immediate action and eight other recommendations. The Committee of Ministers refers to the Government’s objective of ratifying the ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples and urges the immediate initiation of constructive dialogue with the Sami Parliament of Finland in order to seek a solution to the land rights issue in the Sami Homeland.
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23.01.2012
Indigenous Mayans Demand Voice in "Doomsday Tourism" Boom
MEXICO CITY -- The indigenous people of southeast Mexico are demanding to be included in the official programmes planned for 2012 to take advantage of the world´s interest in the "Mayan prophecy", while at the same time fearing a "doomsday tourism" that could damage and contaminate their sacred sites.
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20.01.2012

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MADISON - A federal investigation has begun into whether Wisconsin government officials went against rights established in Native American treaties by not talking with governments of tribes that could be affected by the a mining bill.
03/02 14:27 620 WTMJ NewsRadio (AP)
Kringkastingsrådet drøftet torsdag Brennpunkt-programmet «Førsteretten». Dom: Ingen dom.
03/02 09:58 Finnmarken
AAP Amnesty International has urged a parliamentary human rights watchdog to investigate the federal government's controversial plan to crackdown on school truancy in NT indigenous communities by linking welfare payments to class attendance.
03/02 08:03 Business Spectator
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State-level seminar held at Voorhees College The Director of the Vellore Institute of Development Studies (VIDS), P. Jegadish Gandhi, has advocated the formation of human rights clubs in schools, colleges and all educational institutions.
03/02 02:47 The Hindu
Sun-Star staff Merced Sun-Star The Merced County Chamber of Commerce said the Migori-Maasai Africa Medical Mission, led by Judge Robert Quall, takes teams of volunteers to Kenya to provide medical treatment, teach Christianity and build schools, orphanages and water wells.
03/02 02:22 Merced Sun-Star
Louisa Reynolds, 2012 Hidden in a volcanic crater and shrouded by a cloudy rainforest, Chicabal is a forest-ringed lagoon, located in the municipality of San Martín Sacatepéquez, in the highland department of Quetzaltenango, 206 kilometers (128 miles) from Guatemala City.
03/02 02:14 Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
Translated from Spanish, Original Below 34 national and international organizations call on the Panama Government to respect previous agreements with the Ngäbe-Buglé people The undersigned organizations (until 5: 30 p.
03/02 01:43 Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources
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