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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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
UN News Centre. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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
. ArgentinaIn 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
Credit: Shadrack Kavilu. Herder in search of greener pasture for his sheep and goats.
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
Credit: Jared Ferrie /IPS . Members of the Murle ethnic group wait to receive food aid after attacks from a rival tribe that the U.N. says affected at least 120,000 people. Credit: Jared Ferrie /IPS
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
Govva/Photo:© 2010 Brent Stirton/Getty Images for Human Rights Watch . Women pan for gold in liquid waste discharged by the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea. © 2010 Brent Stirton/Getty Images for Human Rights Watch
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
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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
Copyright: Galdu. 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
AANDC. From Left to right: Chief Austin Bear, Chair of First Nations Land Management Resource Centre, elected LAB Director Saskatchewan Chief Robert Louie, Chair of Lands Advisory Board The Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Jody Wilson Raybould, Vice-Chief AFN, BC, and LAB BC Region Director Chief Gordon Planes, Chief of T´Souke and elected LAB BC region Director JP Gladu, Senior Advisor to Sandpoint
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
Govva/Photo:John Gustavsen. Finland blir trukket fram som foregangsland hva gjelder skilting på ulike språk.
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
Ancient Mayan ruines, Chichen Itza, Mexico.. 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
You Me Unity. At the National Gallery of Australia, Prime Minister Julia Gillard was formally handed the Expert Panel’s report from Co-Chairs Pat Dodson and Mark Leibler, about recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia’s Constitution.
Political Support Grows for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Peoples of Australia
CANBERRA Australia -- The political support for a push to recognise Indigenous peoples in Australia´s constitution is growing after an expert panel mapped out the long path to change of the country´s founding document. On Thursday, the 19 member panel presented its report to the federal government in Canberra.
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19.01.2012
Credit:tarsandsaction/CC By 2.0. Activist Bill McKibben arrested at the Tar Sands Action in Washington, DC on Aug. 20, 2011. Credit:tarsandsaction/CC By 2.0Obama Rejects Giant Keystone Pipeline Project
WASHINGTON -- In a decision fraught with political risk, U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday rejected the permit for the proposed giant Keystone XL pipeline project, insisting that his administration needed more time to determine whether it served the national interest.
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19.01.2012
Credit:Chris Arsenault/IPS. Environmentalists say mining tar sands oil creates 3 to 5 times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil extraction. Credit:Chris Arsenault/IPS
Opposition Builds to New Canadian "Tar Sands" Pipeline
MONTREAL, Canada -- As public hearings began earlier this month into a controversial pipeline that would transport crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to tankers along the coast of British Columbia, environmental groups and First Nations communities have raised staunch opposition to the project, which they say puts both the environment and their traditional way of life at risk.
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18.01.2012
Political Prisoners Freed in Burma - Conditionally
CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- The release of 651 prisoners, a process which started this month, is being seen as a victory for activists and families who have had to contend with Burma’s notorious prison system.
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18.01.2012		 Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Thailand - Lessons Learnt
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists.
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18.01.2012
Melting Ice Makes Arctic Access a Hot Commodity
UXBRIDGE, Canada -- China, Brazil and India want seats on the Arctic Council as global warming creates new opportunities for shipping and resource extraction in the vast Arctic region.
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17.01.2012		 Key Lakes in Kenya Succumb to Human Activities
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya -- Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies that supported and shaped the ecosystems around them. But today they are shells of their former selves, due to heavy siltation caused by human activities.
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18.01.2012
Twenty Years of Peace Fail to Bring Prosperity to El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR -- Two decades after the signing of the Peace Accords, together with the social commitments they contained, El Salvador´s levels of poverty and violence are so high that academic and social leaders are proposing new accords to overcome the crisis.
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18.01.2012		 70,000 Indigenous People ´Forcibly Relocated´ in Ethiopia
Government Policy Causes Hunger and Hardship, Says Report
LONDON -- Some 70,000 indigenous people in the remote western Gambella region of Ethiopia are being forcibly moved to inadequate villages to free up land for commercial agriculture, Human Rights Watch says in a report released on Monday. The Government policy is causing hunger and hardship for the indigenous group residing in the region.
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17.01.2012
Oil Giant Pay U.S. Law Firms Exorbitant Fees To Fight Indigenous Groups, Amazon Defense Coalition Says
NEW YORK – The Amazon Defense Coalition says prominent U.S. law firms have billed multinational oil giant Chevron exorbitant fees to prevent clean-up of Ecuadorian pollution crisis caused by the oil company. Chevron conceded that it has used almost 500 lawyers to fight indigenous groups residing in the rainforest and affected by the toxic waste.
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17.01.2012		 Campaigners Alerted Andaman Authorities to Human Safaris Two Years Ago
LONDON -- The Andaman authorities in the Indian Ocean were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by the campaign group Survival International – but the problem has continued.
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17.01.2012
The "Human Safari" Goes On in the Andaman Islands
KOLKATA, India -- In the eastern city Kolkata, a tourist just back from a holiday in India’s Andaman islands last week boasts he threw bananas to Jarawa tribe members and secretly photographed them when their car passed through a jungle.
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16.01.2012		 Separate Schools for Roma Challenged in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- A school in Slovakia has defended its decision to segregate Roma children from other students after a court ruled the practice breached equal rights laws.
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16.01.2012
Burma Release, Ceasefire with Karen Insurgents Hailed by Obama, Rights Groups
WASHINGTON D.C. -- The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama Friday hailed the release by the Burmese government of hundreds of political prisoners, suggesting that it went far toward satisfying Washington´s conditions for fully normalising ties between the two countries.
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15.01.2012		 Getting Worse in Tibet
BEIJING, China -- A Tibetan ‘Living Buddha’ who set himself on fire in protest against Chinese rule died this week, sparking a vigil of thousands of Tibetans and creating fears that self-immolations are spreading.
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14.01.2012
For the Maya, the World Isn´t Ending – the Environment Is
GUATEMALA CITY -- The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world´s natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn.
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14.01.2012		 Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 2
BANGALORE, India -- As the amount of protected forest dwindles rapidly in India, indigenous groups and wildlife find themselves living cheek to jowl in an increasingly contested space.
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14.01.2012
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 1
BANGALORE, India - Tucked away in a dense and ecologically diverse tiger reserve in Southern India, tribes-people and wildlife defenders are locked in a battle of indigenous peoples’ rights versus wildlife rights.
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14.01.2012		 Prospects of Coal Deposits Bring Fear and Uncertainty among Kamba Indigenous People
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The discovery of millions of tons of coal deposits in Mui Basin, Kitui County, has brought fear and uncertainty among the Kamba indigenous community as the Kenyan government prepares to commercially exploit coal on their ancestral land.
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13.01.2012

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Campaigners burn Australian flag
on 27/01/2012 08:26:19 Supporters of indigenous rights have burned an Australian flag on the steps of the nation's Parliament House. Around 200 protesters marched in Canberra today and burned the flag in front of a wall of police.
27/01 09:53 Eircom Net
Protestors march on Parliament House
Demonstrators have returned to their Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra after a heated protest march on Parliament House on Friday.
27/01 09:40 Radio New Zealand
Heated row follows Gillard fracas
on 27/01/2012 08:10:41 Authorities and indigenous-rights protesters blamed each other today for a heated clash in which bodyguards had to rush prime minister Julia Gillard out of an event marking the anniversary of British colonisation.
27/01 09:40 Eircom Net
Demand for constitutional reform only builds
Last week, in the lead-up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meeting with first nations, Derek Nepinak, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, told The Globe and Mail he'd be asking Mr.
27/01 09:20 Daily Me
Aborigine leader criticizes protesters' behavior toward Australian prime minister
January 27, 2012 -- Updated 0645 GMT (1445 HKT) (CNN) -- An Australian Aborigine leader on Friday criticized the actions of a group of angry protesters toward Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who had to be hauled to safety out of a Canberra restaurant.
27/01 08:35 CNN.com
Call for a Fair Global Climate Fund at Cancún Climate Conference COP16
We are joining together as civil society to call for the establishment of a fair global climate fund at COP-16 that will meet the needs and interests and protect the rights of the most vulnerable communities and people around the world.
27/01 08:04 Oxfam Organisation
Wallin ja Näkkäläjärvi tyytyväisiä saamelaiskysymysten etenemiseen
Nyt on korkea aika ratifioida ILO:n alkuperäiskansoja koskeva yleissopimus, sanoo puolustusministeri ja Rkp:n puheenjohtaja Stefan Wallin sekä saamelaiskäräjien edustaja Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi Wallinin Lapinvierailun yhteydessä torstaina.
27/01 08:00 Svenska Folkpartiet
Govt. commends first women miners association in Guyana
- Guyana is proud gender equality and development record- Webster As countries strive to achieve the United Nation’s Third Millennium Development Goal, which promotes gender equality and empowerment of women, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Jennifer Webster said that Guyana is proud
27/01 07:41 Kaieteur News
Ex-dictator appears in court, doesn't testify
GUATEMALA CITY -- Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s.
27/01 06:20 Modesto Bee
Green energy boom blows trouble into Mexico
Enlarge This Image Alaska News & Features The Isthmus of Tehuantapec, Mexico's narrowest point, is a powerful wind tunnel of air currents whipping through the mountains that separate the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
27/01 05:17 Alaska Dispatch
Honduras: Indigenous Groups Fight Mining And Oil Law
Indigenous groups in Honduras are demanding lawmakers scrap a bill to regulate and expand the country’s mining and hydrocarbon sectors, arguing that legislators would put the interests of large multinational companies ahead of the health and rights of the communities.
27/01 04:52 Eurasia Review
Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast
Associated Press Thu Jan 26, 2012, 09:10 PM CST SEATTLE — Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy’s expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.
27/01 04:47 Enid News