News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 40
Why Investors Should Think Twice before Investing in Coal in India – Part 1
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 18 (IPS) - India's Government under Narendra Modi is in overdrive mode to please businesses and investments in the country. The much aggrandised ‘Make in India' campaign launched in September 2014 is a clarion call for spurring investments into manufacturing and services in India and all eyes have turned to the power sector which is expected to undergo dramatic shifts.
Indonesia’s Palm Oil Industry in Need of a Makeover
- Inter Press Service
BALI, Indonesia, Mar 16 (IPS) - Over the past three decades, 50 percent of the 544,150 square kilometres that comprise Kalimantan, the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo, has been taken over by the palm oil industry.
Feeding a Warmer, Riskier World
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 13 (IPS) - Artificial meat. Indoor aquaculture. Vertical farms. Irrigation drones. Once the realm of science fiction, these things are now fact. Food production is going high tech – at least, in some places.
Newly Recognised Indigenous Rights a Dead Letter?
- Inter Press Service
IZALCO, El Salvador, Mar 05 (IPS) - Nearly three years after the rights of El Salvador's indigenous people were recognised in the constitution, there are still no public policies and laws to translate that historic achievement into reality.
Can Indigenous and Wildlife Conservationists Work Together?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 05 (IPS) - Indigenous and wildlife conservationists have common goals and common adversaries, but seem to be struggling to find common ground in the fight for sustainable forests.
Opinion: Bridging the Gap - How the SDG Fund is Paving the Way for a Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 05 (IPS) - The countdown has begun to September's Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with world leaders discussing the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the United Nations Open Working Group.
Indigenous Storytelling in the Limelight
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Feb 26 (IPS) - In recent years, the Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, has established a European hub for indigenous voices across a number of platforms, including its NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema series and Storytelling-Slams in which indigenous storytelling artists share their stories before opening the floor to contributions from the audience.
Analysis: Economic Growth Is Not Enough
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 23 (IPS) - Recent new data show a worrying picture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Income poverty reduction has stagnated and the number of poor has risen — for the first time in a decade — according to recent figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Indigenous Food Systems Should Be on the Development Menu
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 23 (IPS) - Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality.
Negev Bedouin Resist Israeli Demolitions “To Show We Exist”
- Inter Press Service
AL ARAQIB, Negev Desert, Israel, Feb 20 (IPS) - Lehavim Junction in the northern Negev in Israel has been the backdrop to protests against home demolitions in Bedouin localities for the past four and half years.
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