News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 107
GUYANA: Brazil Opens Gateway to Wider Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula DaSilva flew more than 1,600 kilometres from his base in Brasilia to a remote state on the Guyanese frontier to formally commission a border river bridge with his country's English-speaking neighbour.
RIGHTS-BANGLADESH:: Glimmers of Hope Amid an Elusive Peace
- Inter Press Service
Sultana Kamal dreams of a country 'where every single citizen will live in democracy, in equality' and where everyone has 'equal share to resources and opportunities.' Fulfilling this dream has been her lifelong advocacy as a human rights advocate.
RIGHTS-MALAYSIA: Win Some, Lose Some for Beleaguered Penan Tribe
- Inter Press Service
In wealthy Malaysia that employs over four million Asians to service its high- rolling lifestyle, a tiny indigenous tribe is fighting for its survival against state inaction and bureaucratic apathy, as well as marauding giant multinationals and timber loggers.
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Wrongly Imprisoned Native Woman Released
- Inter Press Service
'I cried a lot, I couldn't believe I was in prison. The day I was put in jail, I never thought I would be there for a long time,' an indigenous market vendor, Jacinta Francisco, said Thursday in Mexico after she was released from prison, where she spent three years for a crime she did not commit.
BOLIVIA: A Race with a Foregone Conclusion
- Inter Press Service
President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García are set to handily win the Dec. 6 elections in Bolivia, against a fragmented opposition.
COLOMBIA: Neutrality Impossible for Indigenous Groups
- Inter Press Service
The latest killings of Awá Indians in southern Colombia — 12 members of a family, including four children and three teenagers —, the forced displacement of hundreds of native villagers, and death threats against indigenous leaders and teachers are signs indicating that their demand to be considered neutral in the armed conflict is still being ignored.
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Justice for Indigenous Leader's Murder - 21 Years On
- Inter Press Service
One night in February 1988 in the native Nasa territory of Jambaló, in southwest Colombia, soldiers barged into Etelvina Zapata's home and snatched her 21-year-old son, barefoot and clad only in shorts, accusing him of working with the leftwing guerrillas.
PERU: Former Minister Should Answer for Massacre in the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'Did I have a feather on my head and kill the policemen myself?' Mercedes Cabanillas responded when journalists asked her if, as interior minister of Peru, she assumed responsibility for the operation that led to the deaths of 24 members of the police and at least nine indigenous protesters near the Amazon jungle town of Bagua.
ENERGY: Pipeline Sabotage Blows Image of Stable Canada
- Inter Press Service
North America's largest natural gas corporation hopes a one-million-dollar bounty will take down the saboteur who is blowing up their pipelines in northern Canada.
BOLIVIA: Too Many Obligations, Too Few Rights for Aymara Women
- Inter Press Service
Teenage Aymara girls only mature as women in the eyes of their community when they are able to demonstrate great industriousness and knowledge of traditional tasks. But by virtue of that same condition they are denied rights, justice and access to community leadership positions.
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