News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 113
RIGHTS: Roma Are Scapegoats During Downturn
- Inter Press Service
On International Roma Day, Wednesday, human rights groups voiced their concern for the discrimination and violence against Roma in European countries.
MEXICO: Indigenous Women on the Offensive
- Inter Press Service
Two years ago, Eufrosina Cruz was kept from running for mayor of her home village by the 'traditions and customs' of her indigenous community in southern Mexico, just because she is a woman.
COLOMBIA: Growing International Support for Peace
- Inter Press Service
The Nasa indigenous people who live in southwestern Colombia risked their very lives when they took it upon themselves to blow up munitions and weapons they discovered on their lands.
NICARAGUA: Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Lets UN Continue Helping Muslim Rohingyas
- Inter Press Service
For now, the United Nations’ refugee agency has been given breathing room to operate in a western corner of military-ruled Burma, where humanitarian programmes offer some comfort to the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.
BRAZIL: Landmark Ruling Confirms Indian Reservation
- Inter Press Service
Chanting 'Anna Pata, Ana Yan' (Our Land, Our Mother), members of indigenous organisations and activists celebrated a Brazilian Supreme Court ruling Thursday that confirmed the borders of a huge indigenous reservation in the Amazon jungle and set an important precedent for future land disputes.
PARAGUAY: The Lot of Domestics - Unceasing Work that Goes Unnoticed
- Inter Press Service
Olga is 39 and María is just 14, but both of them are looking for the same thing while they stay at a centre run by missionary sisters in the Paraguayan capital: a position as a live-in domestic.
PERU: Drama Exposes Rape as Weapon of War
- Inter Press Service
The film La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow, the big winner at the Berlin Film Festival, drives home the brutal effects of Peru’s armed conflict on thousands of women who were raped and have lived with the pain and a lingering sense of shame and fear ever since.
POLITICS-CHINA: Row Over Tibet Escalates
- Inter Press Service
China has sealed off Tibet with troops and demanded that the international community recognises the legitimacy of Beijing's historical claims over the Himalayan plateau, escalating a row over its policies there.
Q&A: Gitmo Uighurs Highlight a Complex Ethnic Problem
- Inter Press Service
Although United States President Barack Obama was quick to order the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay soon after assuming office, the question of what to do with the roughly 175 current inmates who are unlikely to be prosecuted by the U.S. remains.
Powered by
