News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 109
PERU: Three Days of Anti-Government Protests
- Inter Press Service
Wednesday was the second day of a three-day strike declared by trade unions and social movements in Peru to protest the economic policies of President Alan García.
AGRICULTURE: A Stormy Time for Indigenous Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous peoples risk losing control over their traditional knowledge if the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) insists on strict standards for managing access to information.
PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'Now the fish are going to disappear,' said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas.
US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
- Inter Press Service
In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack Obama decided this week to extend trade preferences for Ecuadorean exports for another six months under the 1991 Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
PERU: Minister Tried to Promote Police Investigated for Massacre
- Inter Press Service
Peru’s Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas attempted to promote 11 police officials for their performance in the brutal Jun. 5 crackdown on native protests against government decrees that opened up indigenous land in the Amazon jungle to oil, mining, logging and agribusiness companies.
CULTURE-MEXICO: 'New Seven Wonders' Win Falls Flat
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the 'new seven wonders of the world' in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian businessman. But winning has failed to deliver the desired results.
MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
- Inter Press Service
After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries.
PERU: Govt Partly Backs Down in Standoff with Indians
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian Congress repealed Thursday two of the most controversial decrees that sparked protests by indigenous groups which ended in bloodshed early this month.
PARAGUAY: University Opens Doors to Native Students
- Inter Press Service
Video camera in hand, Isidro Romero is getting ready for another day of classes in the Paraguayan capital. He is studying Communications as part of a programme aimed at breaking down the barriers that have blocked access to university level studies by the country’s small indigenous minority.
CHILE: Festival to Showcase Films on Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to the growing number of films by and about indigenous peoples, over 90 movies, mainly from Latin America, will be screened and voted on by spectators at the First Chilean Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival in the Pacific port city of Valparaíso.
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