News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 48
U.S. Urged to Push World Bank on Human Rights Safeguards
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - Rights advocates and community leaders, together with some U.S. lawmakers, are urging the United States to take a more robust role in pushing the World Bank to explicitly incorporate human rights into policies that dictate how and when the bank can engage in project lending and technical assistance.
Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.
U.S. Joins Global Transparency Tide in Extractives Sector
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (IPS) - An unusual combination of industry, government, investors and civil society here is celebrating the United States' initial acceptance into a prominent global initiative aimed at strengthening transparency and accountability in the extractives industry.
Port Development Brings Progress to Brazil – At a Price
- Inter Press Service
SÃO LUIS, Brazil, Mar 21 (IPS) - "We are victims of progress,"complained Osmar Santos Coelho, known as Santico. His fishing community has disappeared, displaced to make way for a port complex on São Marcos bay, to the west of São Luis, the capital of the state of Maranhão in Brazil's northeast.
Carbon-Cutting Initiative May Harm Indigenous Communities
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - Civil society and advocacy groups are warning that a prominent carbon-reduction initiative, aimed at curbing global emissions, is undermining land tenure rights for indigenous communities, putting their livelihoods at risk.
Fight Brews over Wild vs. Hatchery Salmon in U.S. Northwest
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, Oregon, Mar 18 (IPS) - Built in 1909, Bonneville Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest and largest in the Columbia River Basin, located in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Sun Shines on Forest Women
- Inter Press Service
ANANATAGIRI, India, Mar 07 (IPS) - Chintapakka Jambulamma, 34, looks admiringly at a solar dryer. It's the prized possession of the Advitalli Tribal Women's Co-operative Society- a collective of women entrepreneurs that she leads.
Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 05 (IPS) - In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador's supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
Rich Railroad Brings Few Opportunities in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
ALTO ALEGRE DO PINDARÉ/SÃO LUIS, Brazil, Feb 28 (IPS) - The Carajás railroad, regarded as the most efficient in Brazil, runs a loss-making passenger service for the benefit of the population. But this does little to make amends for its original sin: it was created to export minerals and crosses an area of chronic poverty.
An Environment-Wrecking Pipeline Hangs in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 26 (IPS) - The Pine Ridge Reservation of the Lakota Nation, in the midwest of the United States, is one of the most abandoned places in the country and in the world.
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