News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 51
South of the Border, Mining Is King
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (IPS) - Civil society groups from throughout Latin America are urging "home countries" to take greater responsibility for the actions of their companies abroad, particularly those in the extractives industry.
India Illegal Mining Enquiry Cut Short
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) - A nationwide enquiry into illegal mining in India was aborted before it completed its investigation into the failings of the country's mining industry. The study had prompted the government to ban mining in two states and arrest high-ranking politicians.
Conflicts Over Water Rise in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 18 (IPS) - Conflicts over water are increasing in the sprawling Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania as farmers and herders jostle for dwindling water resources in the face of climate change.
Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development.
Finding Land for Cameroon’s Pastoralist Nomads
- Inter Press Service
NDOP, Cameroon, Oct 16 (IPS) - Adamou Harouna's herd of cattle grazes leisurely on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon's North West Region.
Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 15 (IPS) - Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering.
Baka Pygmies Drink Up Their Voting Rights
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Sep 26 (IPS) - When Daniel Mgwape, a Baka man in Mindourou of the East Region of Cameroon, felt like drinking local liquor commonly called ‘kitoko', he simply took his biometric voter ID card to the village bar tender.
Making Local People Stewards of the Earth
- Inter Press Service
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, Sep 23 (IPS) - The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.
Nigerians Uncertain of Future in Bakassi Peninsula
- Inter Press Service
BAKASSI PENINSULA, Cameroon, Sep 18 (IPS) - Thomas Effiom, a 35-year old fisher in Jabane, a small locality in Cameroon's Bakassi Peninsula, scoops off floodwaters from the muddy floor of his house. It is a ritual he performs each time the Atlantic Ocean overflows.
Q&A: Room for Negotiation in Decisive Battle over the Amazon
- Inter Press Service
SÃO PAULO, Sep 05 (IPS) - Everything indicates that the decisive battle between harnessing hydropower and preserving the Amazon will play out in the Tapajós river basin in Brazil. At stake there are a potential of nearly 30,000 MW and a vital part of the Amazon rainforest.
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