News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 115
POLITICS: Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign Visit
- Inter Press Service
On his first foreign visit as U.S. president, Barack Obama's rhetoric of 'hope' and 'change' came face to face with the hard, divisive policy realities of climate change from Canada's tar sands, a growing insurgency in Afghanistan and the sputtering world economy.
LABOUR-JAPAN: Brazilian Japanese Organise Against Joblessness
- Inter Press Service
Rodney Freitas, 24, is happy to see Brazilians of Japanese descent organising themselves at time when Japan’s economy is cooling down and many are in danger of losing jobs or are already unemployed.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Change National Day Say Indigenous People
- Inter Press Service
Australia's national day is celebrated annually with much fanfare. But Jan.26, which marks the establishment of the colony of New South Wales more than 200 years ago, is viewed by many indigenous activists as the anniversary of the European invasion of their land.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: 'Stateless Peoples' Defend Diversity
- Inter Press Service
The immense diversity of peoples was apparent at the World Social Forum (WSF), which ended Sunday in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon region.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Resolution and a Plan of Action
- Inter Press Service
The World Social Forum ended its ninth edition Sunday in Belém with its 'Assembly of assemblies' adopting dozens of resolutions and proposals to be the subjects of a programme of mobilisations around the world in 2009.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Presidents for Feminist Socialism
- Inter Press Service
'True socialism is feminist,' and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that took place Thursday at the World Social Forum (WSF).
THAILAND: Malay-Muslims Complain in Court of Torture
- Inter Press Service
A year after they were allegedly subjected to torture by the Thai army, two young men from the country’s troubled southern provinces have done what no other victim of similar abuse in the area has dared to do - go to court.
CHINA: Striking Hard in Tibet 50 Years After The Uprising
- Inter Press Service
China is preparing for the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising - which saw the Himalayan territory’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, flee into exile - with a 'strike hard' campaign and propaganda on the evils of feudal oppression in pre-1949 Tibet.
Q&A: Bolivia Limits Size of Estates in Land Reform Struggle
- Inter Press Service
Voters in Bolivia, one of the countries with the highest concentration of land in the world, decided in Sunday’s referendum to limit the size of large landed estates, or 'latifundia', to 5,000 hectares.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: 'Wake Up, World!' - SOS from the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message 'SOS Amazon' to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).
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