Global IssuesNews headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”
The Sami People's Fight Against Norwegian Windmills
- Inter Press Service
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ROME, Mar 09 (IPS) - There are 151 wind turbines and more than 130 kilometres of connection routes and power lines on the Fosen peninsula, 530 kilometres north of Oslo. Norwegian judges say that they should not be there, and the owners of those lands since time immemorial do too.
Racist Political System Thwarts Candidacy of Mayan Woman in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
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SANTA CATARINA PALOPÓ, Guatemala, Mar 04 (IPS) - Centuries of racism and exclusion suffered by indigenous peoples in Guatemala continue to weigh heavily, as demonstrated by the denial of the registration of a political party that is promoting the presidential candidacy of indigenous leader Thelma Cabrera in the upcoming general elections.
Tanzania Should Halt Plan to Relocate Maasai Pastoralists
- Inter Press Service
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NAIROBI, Feb 21 (IPS) - Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu is a senior researcher on women and land and Oryem Nyeko is the Tanzania researcher at Human Rights WatchTanzania’s policies on conservation and its ongoing impacts on Maasai people in Ngorongoro district highlight how communities historically marginalized by oppression still wrestle with colonial policies.
Peru's Democracy at a Crossroads
- Inter Press Service
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Feb 02 (IPS) - On 25 January, roughly six weeks after being sworn in following her predecessor’s removal, Peruvian president Dina Boluarte finally recognised that elections were the only way out of political crisis. Elections were rescheduled for April 2024, much earlier than the end of the presidential term she’s been tasked with completing, but not soon enough for thousands who’ve taken to the streets demanding her immediate resignation.
Solar Energy Useless Without Good Batteries in Brazils Amazon Jungle
- Inter Press Service
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BOA VISTA, Brazil, Jan 25 (IPS) - “Our electric power is of bad quality, it ruins electrical appliances,” complained Jesus Mota, 63. “In other places it works well, not here. Just because we are indigenous,” protested his wife, Adélia Augusto da Silva, of the same age.
Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15
- Inter Press Service
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MONTREAL, Dec 16 (IPS) - In addition to its nutritional properties, quinoa, an ancestral grain from the Andes, also has cosmetic uses, as stated by the resource use and benefit-sharing permit ABSCH-IRCC-PE-261033-1 awarded in February to a private individual under a 15-month commercial use contract.
Solar Energy Benefits Children and Indigenous People in Northern Brazil
- Inter Press Service
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BOA VISTA, Brazil, Dec 13 (IPS) - Solar energy is booming in Roraima, a state in the far north of Brazil, to the benefit of indigenous people and children in its capital, Boa Vista, and helping to provide a stable energy supply to the entire populace, who suffer frequent electricity shortages and blackouts.
We Indigenous Peoples are Rights-Holders, not Stakeholders
- Inter Press Service
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Dec 08 (IPS) - After four failed rainy seasons, the land of the Maasai has withered. The worst drought in 40 years is a slow-motion storm of devastation in the Greater Horn of Africa, ruining the livestock, the communities, the Maasai way of life. Their cattle have been their greatest source of wealth and nutrition, but with grazing lands shriveled from the dry heat and their livestock emaciated, the entire region is in peril.
Indigenous Peoples Have Their Own Agenda at COP27, Demanding Direct Financing
- Inter Press Service
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Nov 12 (IPS) - Indigenous peoples are no longer content just to attend as observers and to be seen as victims of the impacts of the current development model, at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) on Climate Change. That is why they came to the summit in Egypt with an agenda of their own, including the demand that their communities directly receive funding for climate action.
Mexican Environmental Prosecutor's Office Dodges Charges against Mayan Train
- Inter Press Service
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MEXICO CITY, Nov 02 (IPS) - A beige line slashes its way through the Mayan jungle near the municipality of Izamal in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatán. It is section 3, 172 kilometers long, of the Mayan Train (TM), the most important megaproject of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration.
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