News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 110
PERU: Congress Probes Massacre; Prime Minister to Quit
- Inter Press Service
At the initiative of the opposition parties, the Peruvian parliament approved the creation of a committee to investigate the clash early this month between indigenous protesters and the police near the town of Bagua in the northern province of Amazonas, which according to official reports left a death toll of 34.
RIGHTS-PERU: Activists Urge Obama to Use Trade Pact as Leverage
- Inter Press Service
The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organisations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in Lima is using to justify oppression against the indigenous population.
PERU: Families of Dead Native Protesters Tell Their Stories
- Inter Press Service
Sobbing, an indigenous woman dressed in black cries out as she sees us arrive: 'My son, my son, they have killed my son!' She is Andrea Rocca, the mother of Felipe Sabio, a young man who died in a clash between police and indigenous protesters in the northern Peruvian region of Amazonas.
Q&A: 'The Order Was to Kill Us'
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government described the recent deaths of police officers in clashes with indigenous protesters in the country’s Amazon rainforest as 'genocide' at the hands of 'extremist savages.'
CHILE: Mixed Reception for Indigenous Protection Code
- Inter Press Service
Although it is still in the process of being drafted, a 'code of responsible conduct' promoted by the Chilean government to regulate public and private investment in indigenous areas has already drawn resistance.
SOUTH AMERICA: Calls for Justice for Peru's Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Social organisations in South America are backing the struggle against opening up Peru’s Amazon jungle to mining and oil companies, which resulted in clashes in which at least nine indigenous people and 25 police officers died.
PERU: Native Protesters Search for Their Dead
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous people taking part in protests near this town in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas that ended in a bloody clash with the police last week are now focusing on drawing up a list of the dead and missing, amidst a climate of fear and mistrust.
PERU: ‘Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,’ Say Native Protesters
- Inter Press Service
There are conflicting reports on a violent incident in Peru’s Amazon jungle region in which both police officers and indigenous protesters were killed.
ENVIRONMENT-COLOMBIA: Coal Mine Hurts Highlands Lake, Farms
- Inter Press Service
Protests by indigenous farmers in the Colombian village of Cuayá, 75 km north of Bogotá, have failed to bring to a halt the unregulated extraction of coal, which has had disastrous environmental effects on Lake Suesca, 3,000 metres above sea level.
Q&A: 'Indigenous Women Are Growing in Numbers and Influence'
- Inter Press Service
The Canadian province of British Columbia is home to more than 200 native communities, or First Nations, ranging from about 20 people to over 3,000. As their size and level of remoteness varies, so does their economic development.
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