News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 102
BOLIVIA: Native People Take First Steps Towards Self-Government
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous people, who make up more than 60 percent of the population in Bolivia, South America's poorest country, are taking their first steps towards self-government under their own cultural traditions that date back to pre-colonial times.
SOUTH AMERICA: New Map Outlines Guaraní Territory
- Inter Press Service
Some 100,000 Guaraní people live in the area where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge, according to a new map drawn of the indigenous group's ancestral territory, which also highlights the threats, such as expanding soy cultivation, to their natural surroundings.
ZAMBIA: Let our Chiefs Govern
- Inter Press Service
The Litunga of Barotseland, King of the Lozi, has no judicial or legislative authority. No supervisory control over government projects, and worst of all he cannot stand for elected office. Yet successive Zambian presidents have deferred to him.
COLOMBIA: Chicha, Fashionable Survivor
- Inter Press Service
Chicha, a traditional homemade brew produced all the way from Mexico to Chile since the days of the Inca, has largely been a rural drink over the centuries. But it is enjoying a new popularity in bars and restaurants in Bogotá and other Colombian cities, as a hip alternative to mass-produced beer.
JORDAN: Palestinian Refugees Live Out Lives in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
Music enlivens the yellow taxi as it traverses the Jordanian capital. A small Palestinian flag hangs from the rearview mirror. Jihad, the cab driver, says his father fled here from the Palestinian West Bank in 1948.
CULTURE-TURKEY: Kurdish Directors Make 'National' Cinema
- Inter Press Service
A ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in Turkey has not deterred Kurdish filmmakers from all over the globe gathering in this southeastern city to continue their struggle for recognition through cultural means.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit for Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are now turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Scientists Turn to Inuit People For Clues
- Inter Press Service
The Inuit people who live in and around the Arctic are among the worst victims of global warming, and scientists are turning to their experience and indigenous knowledge to understand the staggering effects of climate change.
ARGENTINA: Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
- Inter Press Service
The residents of the Puna, the dry Andean highlands in northern Argentina, are cut off from everything - except the sun. Living on arid land thousands of metres above sea level, they are on their way to becoming 'solar villages.'
CLIMATE CHANGE: Bringing the Rainforest to Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
As delegates deliberate over the extent carbon emissions will be curbed in the closing days of the U.N. summit here, the environmental ramifications of that agreement are likely to be felt in places far removed from the negotiating table, particularly among indigenous people on the front lines of climate change.
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