News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 111
BRAZIL: Public Health Embraces Herbal Medicines
- Inter Press Service
Handed down from generation to generation, traditional knowledge about medicinal plants has reached state laboratories in Brazil through a programme that has already identified 71 native and exotic species for producing herbal medicines.
MEXICO: Indigenous Rape Victims Fight Military Impunity
- Inter Press Service
The aberrations of Mexican justice were clearly visible in the cases of rape and torture allegedly committed by soldiers in 2002 against two indigenous women, Inés Fernández and Valentina Rosendo. But their experiences are not exceptional in rural areas of the southern state of Guerrero.
COSTA RICA: Indigenous People Sidelined in Plans for Dam
- Inter Press Service
The Diquís dam, the largest hydroelectric project in Central America, is worrying indigenous communities because Costa Rica’s state power company has excluded them from the decision-making process, in spite of international treaties that stipulate that they must be consulted.
Q&A: How an Alcohol Ban Revived an Aboriginal Community
- Inter Press Service
In 2007, a group of aboriginal women from Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia decided that the only thing that could save their community from going under was to impose a complete ban on the sales of takeaway alcohol.
CHINA-EU: Summit Redefines Diplomatic Boundaries
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis has helped China and the European Union mend their recent rift over Tibet and human rights, but the two sides remain distrustful of each other’s intentions. Beijing complains that the EU’s crowded agenda makes it lose sight of the bigger picture in dealing with China. Brussels for its part, believes China is exploiting the EU’s divisions and treating the 27-state bloc with ‘diplomatic contempt’ on a range of issues from trade to the Dalai Lama.
SCIENCE: Questions Surround Mexican Genome Project
- Inter Press Service
In Mexico scientists are seeking volunteers who are obese, diabetic or suffering from cancer or other diseases, in order to study their genes. The results will help fill in a genetic map of the Mexican population.
RIGHTS: Indigenous Lands Plundered in Oil and Gas Rush
- Inter Press Service
Leaders of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples who are attending an international meeting here this week say they want governments to stop oil and gas corporations from further extraction on their lands.
PERU: Talks Fall Flat; Indigenous Protests Rage On
- Inter Press Service
The Peruvian government resumed talks with indigenous groups after a violent crackdown on protests left 10 injured and around 20 under arrest. But the dialogue has not yet brought results, and the demonstrations against decrees that affect indigenous lands and the rainforest continue, while a state of emergency remains in place in several Amazon regions.
AUSTRALIA: Plan to Tackle Domestic Violence Wins Support
- Inter Press Service
Kelly Johnson was just 28 when she was murdered by a former boyfriend at her Adelaide home last year. The mother of one was hit on the head with a frying pan and stabbed repeatedly with 'startling ferocity', according to Justice Trish Kelly, who handed down a mandatory life sentence to Johnson's killer, Daniel Hall, in February.
AUSTRALIA: Climate Change - Further Threat to Aboriginals
- Inter Press Service
Climate change will further marginalise Australia’s Aboriginal communities, forcing them out of their traditional lands, destroying their culture and significantly affecting their access to water resources, indigenous rights advocates warn.
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