News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 29
Asia - Indigenous Women Fight for Justice, Influence and Equity
- Inter Press Service
COPENHAGEN, Jun 05 (IPS) - Indigenous women in Asia are setting examples in their efforts for a more peaceful, fair and equal world. But discrimination, poverty and lack of recognition still hinder indigenous women from fully participating in developing their societies.
Re-Connect with Nature Now... Before It Is Too Late!
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 05 (IPS) - Now that president Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of the world's largest polluter in history—the United States, from the Paris Accord, perhaps one of the most specific warnings is what a United Nations independent expert on rights and the environment has just said: "We should be fully aware that we cannot enjoy our basic human rights without a healthy environment."
Asia: 260 Million Indigenous Peoples Marginalised, Discriminated
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 26 (IPS) - Asia is home to the largest number of indigenous peoples on Earth, with an estimated 260 million of a total of 370 million original inhabitants worldwide. In spite of their huge number-equaling half of the combined population of Europe-- they are often victims of discrimination and denial of their rights.
Social Forum Calls for Fight Against Corruption, to Defend the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
May 03 (IPS) - Corruption has penetrated the Amazon rainforest like an illness that infects everything, said Ruben Siqueira, coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), during the VIII Panamazonic Social Forum (FOSPA), which brought together in the Peruvian Amazon jungle representatives of civil society from eight Amazon basin countries.
The Very Survival of Africa’s Indigenous Peoples ‘Seriously Threatened’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, May 03 (IPS) - The cultures and very survival of indigenous peoples in Africa are seriously threatened. They are ignored, neglected and fall victims of land grabbing and land dispossession caused by extractive industries, agribusiness and other forms of business operations.
Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (IPS) - Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
Long Way to Go for Indigenous Rights Protection
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 25 (IPS) - Despite progress, many gaps remain in international indigenous rights protection, said representatives during an annual UN meeting.
Indigenous Peoples - Best Allies or Worst Enemies?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 25 (IPS) - It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world's war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as collective victims of a "tsunami" of imprisonments in Australia. See what happened.
Brazilian Dam Causes Too Much or Too Little Water in Amazon Villages
- Inter Press Service
ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Apr 01 (IPS) - The Juruna indigenous village of Miratu mourned the death of Jarliel twice: once on October 26, when he drowned in the Xingu River, and the second time when the sacred burial ground was flooded by an unexpected rise in the river that crosses Brazil's Amazon region.
The Indigenous ‘People of Wildlife’ Know How to Protect Nature
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 10 (IPS) - In the northern part of Mount Kenya, there is an indigenous community -- the Il Lakipiak Maasai ("People of Wildlife") -- which owns and operates the only community-owned rhino sanctuary in the country.
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