News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 114
ECONOMY-CHINA: Human Rights Critics Silenced by Meltdown
- Inter Press Service
If the global economic downturn is a crisis with a silver lining for cash-rich Chinese companies intent on bargain deals, it is equally so the image-conscious government whose human right critics have been silenced by the need to cooperate with Beijing on overcoming the recession.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: 'Bali Process' May Address Rohingya Crisis
- Inter Press Service
South-east Asian governments are examining the possibility of using a seven-year-old regional mechanism, known as the ‘’Bali Process,’’ to find an answer to minority Muslim Rohingyas fleeing ethnic cleansing in military-ruled Burma.
COLOMBIA: Awá Indians Hemmed in by War
- Inter Press Service
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas admitted to killing eight Awá Indians who they accused of being army informants. Expert on military affairs Ariel Ávila said this indigenous community in the war-torn province of Nariño had formed vigilante 'self-defence' groups.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Rohingya Issue Figures in Regional Summit
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s military regime has set a tough challenge for regional leaders to grapple with when they gather for a summit over the weekend in this resort town south of Bangkok.
COLOMBIA: Rebels Kill Awá Indians as Army Informants
- Inter Press Service
A local group of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas acknowledged that it had killed eight members of the Awá indigenous group, who it accused of being army informants.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: New Drive Against Racism
- Inter Press Service
With new figures showing that 44 percent of Australians were either born overseas or have at least one parent who was, community organisations have welcomed a stepped-up government programme to tackle racial, cultural and religious intolerance.
CHILE: Gov't Unleashes Anti-Terror Law on Mapuche Activist
- Inter Press Service
'They burst in aiming machine guns at us. They found him in the hallway, they grabbed him by the hair, they threw him on the floor and they beat him up,' Ida Huenulef told IPS, describing the arrest of her son Miguel, the first indigenous Mapuche activist to be charged under the Anti-Terrorist Law by the government of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
COLOMBIA: A Hundred-Year War on Drugs
- Inter Press Service
The anti-drug, anti-insurgent Plan Colombia is, paradoxically, at the heart of the tragedy involving Awa indigenous people who were murdered this month by the FARC guerrillas.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Burma's Muslim Rohingyas - The New Boat People
- Inter Press Service
It happened decades ago when this region was gripped by the fallout of the United States’ war in Vietnam. But the ‘boat people’ phenomenon is back, and this time it has to do with Burma’s Muslim Rohingyas fleeing harsh realities at home.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Year Later Apology to Lost Generations Looks Hollow
- Inter Press Service
One year after the historic apology made to indigenous Australians by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the nation, conjecture remains over whether enough has been done to support the acknowledgement of wrongs inflicted on the first Australians.
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