News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 52
Indonesia’s Forest Communities Victims of 'Legal Land Grabs'
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Nov 15 (IPS) - Indonesia's rainforests are facing "legal land grabs", allege NGOs. Its ancient communities are finding that their ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.
Idyllic Island Confronts Bloody Past
- Inter Press Service
AUKI, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, Nov 13 (IPS) - Anguish over the whereabouts of loved ones who went missing during a five-year civil conflict that ended a decade ago continues for countless families in the Solomon Islands. Searching for the remains of those who disappeared is vital to enduring peace in this culturally diverse south-west Pacific island nation of 550,000.
Mining Takes a Bite Out of Guyana's Amazon
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Nov 11 (IPS) - Guyana is engaged in a balancing act to save its rainforest, regarded as a living treasure, from the destructive activities of miners digging their way to another kind of treasure buried beneath this fragile ecosystem.
Ethiopia’s Indigenous Excluded from Rapid Growth
- Inter Press Service
OMO VALLEY, Ethiopia, Nov 11 (IPS) - As the construction of a major transmission line to export electricity generated from one of Ethiopia's major hydropower projects gets underway, there are growing concerns that pastoralist communities living in the region are under threat.
Zimbabweans Left Worse Off by Local Mining Companies
- Inter Press Service
MUTOKO, Zimbabwe, Nov 01 (IPS) - Ranganai Zimbeva, from the rural village of Mutoko, which lies about 200 km northeast of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, plugs his ears with his fingers and shakes his head as he watches miners close to his village blast the hard rock to extract the black granite within.
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.
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