News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 103
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Obama’s $3B Settlement Not Enough?
- Inter Press Service
Though pleased with the Barrack Obama administration’s decision to compensate the indigenous tribes for unjust occupation of their lands, American Indian activists are saying that Washington has to do more to heal their nations’ wounds.
RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: Army Records Spur Hopes for Justice
- Inter Press Service
Original Guatemalan army records on a scorched-earth campaign known as 'Operation Sofía', presented as evidence in a human rights case in Spain, have bolstered hopes for justice among the relatives of victims of Guatemala's 36-year civil war in which more than 200,000 people, mainly Mayan Indians, were killed.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin American Women Want Modified Trade Rules
- Inter Press Service
'We don't need to change the climate, we need to change trade,' said Brazilian activist Marta Lago at Klimaforum, the civil society meeting held in parallel with the climate change summit in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: No Closed Doors at Parallel Summit
- Inter Press Service
Two blocks from the Metro station on the busy M-1 Line, the first indication that pedestrians are slipping into the space-time continuum known as the 'Free City' is the ubiquitous graffiti and occasional 'boom!' of small explosive devices like M-80s echoing through the cobbled streets.
RIGHTS-TURKEY: Jailing Kudish Children to Undermine Dissent
- Inter Press Service
Turkey is signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that does not stop minors in the country's Kurdish dominated eastern and southeastern regions from ending up with stiff jail sentences.
U.S.: 'We All Breathe the Same Air and Drink the Same Water'
- Inter Press Service
Some 8,000 kilometres from the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Native American environmental experts from 66 tribes came together at a summit here this week to address the most pressing needs in their communities - problems, all emphasised, that know no geographic boundaries.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come'
- Inter Press Service
A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
BOLIVIA: Women Clamour for Right to Land
- Inter Press Service
Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples, in violation of international instruments and conventions protecting women’s rights.
BALKANS: Apologising to Sterilised Roma Women - Slovakia's Turn
- Inter Press Service
Rights activists are hoping a landmark announcement by the Czech government regretting forced sterilisation of Roma women in the past will push politicians in neighbouring Slovakia to follow suit.
SRI LANKA: The Long Road to Normalcy in War-Ravaged Zones
- Inter Press Service
Despite the recent accelerated return of tens of thousands of war-displaced civilians to their former villages in northern Sri Lanka and the impending relaxation of further restrictions, aid agencies say far more efforts are needed to help the civilian population regain normalcy lost to decades of conflict.
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