News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 104
TURKEY: NGOs Unite to Demand Say in Human Rights Bill
- Inter Press Service
Turkey’s new human rights bill has a flaw — not a single rights group was consulted in the drafting.
Q&A: ‘MDGs Don’t Recognise Role of Human Rights in Poverty Fight’
- Inter Press Service
As the number of people living in poverty swell to over two billion, Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan makes a strong argument for human rights to be made central to development and eradication of poverty.
PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops
- Inter Press Service
As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. 'Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest,' says the peasant farmer from Huancavelica, Peru's poorest province, where most of the population depends on subsistence farming.
CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Claim They Were Framed
- Inter Press Service
'This lie has got to end,' said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
ENVIRONMENT: Listen to the Earth, Say Indigenous Peoples
- Inter Press Service
The idea of wilderness is 'an interesting concept; it is a Western concept. Our people have always lived and interacted in the environment,' said Illion Merculieff, an environmental activist from the Aleut community in the north-western U.S. state of Alaska.
SRI LANKA: Plans to Release Tamils ‘Nothing But a Political Ploy’
- Inter Press Service
By January 2010 they will be returning to their homes in war-torn areas.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Small Islands Fear Going the Way of Atlantis
- Inter Press Service
The world's small island states, most of which are painfully vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, have put the United Nations on notice.
PHILIPPINES: Storm-Hit City under Constant Threat of Landslides
- Inter Press Service
The storm has long subsided, and the torrential rains—which battered this city known for its pristine charm and stately pine trees last month—have been gone for weeks.
U.S.: Supreme Court Punts on 'Redskins' Case
- Inter Press Service
The ongoing drive to purge derogatory American Indian nicknames and mascots from U.S. sports and schools took a minor hit Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, to hear an appeal challenging the trademark protecting the name of the National Football League's Washington Redskins.
CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison
- Inter Press Service
'If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there,' Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison in the southern Chilean region of Bío-Bío, told a group of foreign correspondents.
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