Global Issues
News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 13
No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, May 16 (IPS) - The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is taking place in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The theme: “Land, Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity.” “We are faced with a crucial choice,” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told participants: “We can either reap the benefits of land restoration now or continue on the disastrous path that has led us to the triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity and pollution”
The landmark land tenure decision by parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 2019 offers a blueprint for upcoming climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh in November.
One Hundred Years On, Argentine State Acknowledges Indigenous Massacre in Trial
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, May 13 (IPS) - It’s a strange trial, with no defendants. The purpose is not to hand down a conviction, but to bring visibility to an atrocious event that occurred almost a hundred years ago in northern Argentina and was concealed by the State for decades with singular success: the massacre by security forces of hundreds of indigenous people who were protesting labor mistreatment and discrimination.
Mining Destroys the Lives of Indigenous People in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, May 12 (IPS) - The voracious search for gold in southern Venezuela, practiced by thousands of illegal miners under the protection of various armed groups, represents the greatest threat today to the lives of indigenous peoples, their habitat and their cultures, according to their organizations and human rights defenders.
Biodiversity: Indigenous Peoples, the Last Custodians
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Apr 29 (IPS) - Every now and then, experts remind that the Indigenous Peoples are the best (and last?) custodians of the essential web of life: biodiversity.
Indigenous Women in Mexico Take United Stance Against Inequality
- Inter Press Service
UAYMA, Mexico, Apr 26 (IPS) - Every other Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. sharp, a group of 26 Mexican women meet for an hour to discuss the progress of their work and immediate tasks. Anyone who arrives late must pay a fine of about 25 cents on the dollar.
Proposed Animal Protection Legislation Ignores Rights of Local Communities to Practice their Approach to Conservation
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr 05 (IPS) - On the battleground that has become African wildlife conservation, rural communities find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war that is bound to the past on one side, and their future, on the other.
New Constitution Would Declare Chile a Plurinational State
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 09 (IPS) - Chile could change the course of its history and become a diverse and multicolored country this year with a “plurinational and intercultural state” that recognizes and promotes the development of the native peoples that inhabited this territory before the Spanish conquest.
Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) - "Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her," says Hilda Roca, an indigenous Peruvian farmer from Cusipata, in the Andes highlands of the department of Cuzco, referring to climate change and the havoc it is wreaking on her life and her environment.
Struggle in Guatemala Offers Hope for Latin America's Indigenous People
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Feb 21 (IPS) - A struggle for the defense of their territories waged by indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' communities in eastern Guatemala could set a historic precedent for Latin America's native peoples because it would ensure not only their right to control their lands but also their natural resources, denied for centuries.
Alarm: Every Two Weeks a Mother Tongue Disappears Due to Globalisation
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Feb 21 (IPS) - “Every two weeks a language disappears taking with it an entire cultural and intellectual heritage. At least 43% of the estimated 6000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been given a place in education systems and the public domain, and less than a hundred are used in the digital world.”
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