News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 101
BOLIVIA: Women’s Right to Land Thwarted by Patriarchal Traditions
- Inter Press Service
Bolivian legislation on land ownership is highly favourable to women, but a lack of awareness makes it difficult to enforce these laws and ensure that women are able to obtain - and maintain - control of the land they farm.
BOLIVIA: Women’s Right to Land Thwarted by Patriarchal Traditions
- Inter Press Service
Bolivian legislation on land ownership is highly favourable to women, but a lack of awareness makes it difficult to enforce these laws and ensure that women are able to obtain - and maintain - control of the land they farm.
DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction
- Inter Press Service
One of Cambodia’s oldest languages — S’aoch — appears headed for extinction in the next decade. Other languages spoken by its minority people are lining up to take the place of the 6,000-year-old language in the most endangered category.
RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: Naming the 'Disappeared'
- Inter Press Service
Through the 'My Name Is Not XX' campaign, the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation is working to identify the remains of thousands of victims who were forcibly disappeared during the country's 1960-1996 armed conflict, by inviting their relatives to provide DNA samples.
THAILAND: With Hmong Expulsion, Army Asserts Foreign Policy Role
- Inter Press Service
The recent deportation of Hmong asylum seekers to Laos has shown that Thailand’s powerful military remains the dominant player in shaping the relationship between this South-east Asian kingdom and its immediate neighbours.
TURKEY: Peace May Come to Pass in 2010
- Inter Press Service
With newfound liberties for the Kurdish minority and the government’s ‘Democratic Opening’ initiative the prospects for peace in 2010 are brighter than they have been in the last 25 years. The fly in the ointment is the ban in December of the pro-Kurd, Democratic Society Party (DTP).
POLITICS: Indonesia Mourns the Passing of a Beloved Leader
- Inter Press Service
The news about fourth Indonesian president and cleric Abdurrahman Wahid being admitted to the hospital last week merited only a passing mention in the national media. It was overshadowed by reports on the country’s tumultuous political situation, such as allegations that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was involved in a banking scandal and the controversies hounding the country’s corruption eradication agency.
BURMA: China’s Oil, Gas Pipelines Recipe for Abuse, Warn Activists
- Inter Press Service
China’s growing dependence on military-ruled Burma to meet its energy demands is poised to take concrete form when, according to activists, work commences in the coming months on the construction of oil and gas pipelines.
POLITICS: China Seen as Flaunting Growing Clout in Asia
- Inter Press Service
If Asia, already unsettled by China’s economic rise, needed a reminder that economic power would be followed by more political assertiveness, then none was more compelling than Beijing’s unconcealed sway on Cambodia to expel 20 Uyghur asylum seekers over the weekend.
GUATEMALA: Lynching, Another Face of Impunity
- Inter Press Service
After a bus driver was shot to death in Sololá, a city in southwestern Guatemala, an angry mob captured two men and one woman suspected of committing the crime, beat them and burnt them alive in the central plaza.
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