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 Displaced Indigenous Community Wins Land Dispute in ParaguayASUNCIÓN, 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. More
03.02.2012 |
 Canadian First Nations Children Face Crisis, Youth Advocates Tell UNTORONTO, 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 |
 Weak Land Rights Promote Land Rush; New StudyNAIROBI, 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.More
02.02.2012 |
 UN 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. More
02.02.2012 |
Re-Greening the Border Between Honduras and NicaraguaMANAGUA, 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.More
01.02.2012 |
 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. More
30.01.2012 |
Working Towards a Never-Ending DemocracyPORTO 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.More
30.01.2012 |
Community Radio Flourishes Online in BrazilRIO 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 NationsUNITED 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 |
Recovery from Chilean Forest Fire Could Take 80 YearsSANTIAGO, 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 RegimeOTTAWA, 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" BoomMEXICO 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 |
Political Support Grows for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Peoples of AustraliaCANBERRA 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 |
Obama Rejects Giant Keystone Pipeline ProjectWASHINGTON -- 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 |
Opposition Builds to New Canadian "Tar Sands" PipelineMONTREAL, 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 |
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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)
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Kringkastingsrådet drøftet torsdag Brennpunkt-programmet «Førsteretten». Dom: Ingen dom.
03/02 09:58 Finnmarken
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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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03/02 08:00 Winnipeg Free Press
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03/02 06:00 Leader Post
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03/02 05:20 Aboriginal Multi-Media Society
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03/02 04:00 GuelphMecury.com
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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
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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
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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
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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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03/02 01:20 NunatsiaqOnline
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"We are the Sami" films
