Global Issues News Headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”

Advocates Cheer Tightening of Extractives Transparency Standards:

2013-05-23T21:39:25-07:00

WASHINGTON, May 23 (IPS) - Development groups and corruption watchdogs are applauding landmark new standards adopted Wednesday by an international initiative focused on ensuring greater transparency among oil and mining companies operating particularly in developing countries.

Where Law Enforcement Goes Bad:

2013-05-23T21:11:20-07:00

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (IPS) - There is a "deficit of justice" in Brazil, where the police themselves sometimes join the ranks of organised crime, in the form of militias, according to Amnesty International.

Indigenous Brazilians Learn to Fight for the Right to Food:

2013-05-21T20:04:27-07:00

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 21 (IPS) - Indigenous communities in remote areas of Brazil have begun to recognise that they have the right to not be hungry, and are learning that food security means much more than simply having food on the table.

Walking Tours Connect Palestinians to Their Past:

2013-05-17T13:50:25-07:00

DEIR GHASSANEH, Occupied West Bank, May 17 (IPS) - A reddish-brown dome sits atop an ancient stone house, used hundreds of years ago for prayer. It peeks out from the surrounding trees as the rolling green valleys and hills of the central West Bank stretch out into the distance.

Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya:

2013-05-17T12:56:31-07:00

SOUTHERN LIBYA, May 17 (IPS) - Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, near the Algerian border.

Profits vs. Disaster in Arctic Meltdown:

2013-05-16T18:13:31-07:00

, May 16 (IPS) - Many eyes are turning north to the Arctic, some in horror at the rapid decline of a key component of our life support system, others in eager anticipation at the untapped resources beneath the vanishing snow and ice.

Indigenous Nicaraguans Fight to the Death for Their Last Forest:

2013-05-15T15:14:33-07:00

MANAGUA, May 15 (IPS) - Mayangna indigenous communities in northern Nicaragua are caught up in a life-and-death battle to defend their ancestral territory in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve from the destruction wrought by invading settlers and illegal logging.

The Challenge of Being a Maasai Woman:

2013-05-09T16:58:29-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, May 09 (IPS) - The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans - and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a familiar face.

Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan:

2013-05-07T15:41:41-07:00

WASHINGTON, May 07 (IPS) - More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest "offsets" in the state's new emissions-trading scheme.

Mexico’s Community Radio Stations Fight for Survival and Recognition:

2013-05-06T13:46:20-07:00

MEXICO CITY, May 06 (IPS) - Radio Totopo was founded in February 2006 in the Pescadores neighbourhood, the oldest and poorest part of the city of Juchitán in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. But the authorities closed it down in late March, even though Congress is debating a constitutional reform that would recognise community radio stations.