News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 106
GUATEMALA: Town that Suffered Military Terror Fights Reopening of Base
- Inter Press Service
People in the town of Ixcan in northwestern Guatemala could relive the pain of the country's 36-year civil war if the army reopens a military base in the area, where more than 100 massacres of indigenous villagers were committed during the armed conflict.
RIGHTS: Govts Failing Indigenous Declaration, U.N. Expert Says
- Inter Press Service
A top U.N. expert on human rights law called Monday for governments to match their words with deeds and make good on promises to respect indigenous communities' right to live as they wish.
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Female Circumcision Still a Vote Winner
- Inter Press Service
Over three decades ago a 14-year-old girl, her sister and a group of young teenagers from Bukwo headed to the River Amana for a ceremony that would change their lives forever.
RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: Int'l Backing for Indigenous Land Claims
- Inter Press Service
After 20 years of fighting for their ancestral lands in Paraguay's northwestern Chaco region, the Xákmok Kásek indigenous community's case has reached the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Q&A: Indigenous Rights Appeals Increasingly Reach Inter-American System
- Inter Press Service
Standards relating to indigenous peoples' rights, laid down by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, are increasingly being incorporated into the laws of countries in the region, according to Víctor Abramovich, First Vice President of the Commission.
CHILE: Indigenous Protests on Several Fronts
- Inter Press Service
The tense relations between the Chilean government of Michelle Bachelet and the country's large indigenous minority are far from easing up.
CAMEROON: 'Our Lives Are Defined By This Forest'
- Inter Press Service
Pauline Siembe, a Baka pygmy in South East Cameroon, comes out of her smoky hut licking her fingers after a meal of pounded yam and bush meat soup.
CHILE: Preserving the Kaweshkar Language — In the Nick of Time
- Inter Press Service
Sound files containing recordings of spoken Kaweshkar - a nearly extinct indigenous language of southern Chile — have been put together thanks to the work of ethnolinguist Óscar Aguilera and anthropologist José Tonko, and donated to national and foreign institutions with the aim of preserving the culture of one of Chile’s nine native groups.
PERU: Environmental Clean-up not Complete, Say Achuar Communities
- Inter Press Service
Leaders of the Achuar people are challenging a decision by the Peruvian government to declare that a clean-up effort by the PlusPetrol oil company in the northeastern Amazon jungle has been completed.
ENVIRONMENT: Women on Front Lines of Climate Week
- Inter Press Service
Women's voices remain highly underrepresented in the climate change debate, say international civil society leaders attending events taking place around the United Nations Climate Summit Tuesday.
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