News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 54
MDGs Fund Boosts Food Security
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries.
Survivors Reluctant to Testify in New Genocide Trial
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Jun 11 (IPS) - Fear and mistrust reign in Santa María Nebaj. The people of this Maya Ixil indigenous town in the highlands of northwestern Guatemala are worried about intimidation attempts to keep them from testifying again in a retrial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.
How to Close Latin America's Rich-Poor Chasm
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (IPS) - Latin American governments have increasingly been working to lessen inequality in the region, but new data suggests their efforts vary widely in quality and impact.
U.S., Malaysia Lead Worldwide "Land Grabs"
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jun 10 (IPS) - Africa is the main target for "land grabs" by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday.
Isolated Amazon Indians Under Pressure in Ecuador
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Jun 05 (IPS) - Reports of another massacre in an isolated indigenous community in Ecuador's Amazon region cast doubt on the state's compliance with precautionary measures imposed in favour of uncontacted peoples in 2006 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Nowhere to Turn for China's Uyghurs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 04 (IPS) - For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese.
Q&A: "The State Does Not Lose Sovereignty If It Respects Indigenous Rights"
- Inter Press Service
DARWIN, Australia, Jun 03 (IPS) - "There is a belief that consent is about saying yes or no, about who wins," observed James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous rights. But consultation with indigenous peoples is a matter of "creating open processes where they can voice their opinions and influence decisions, and where there is the necessary will to seek consensus."
Healthcare for Native People in Brazil Is Ailing
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jun 01 (IPS) - Healthcare for Brazil's indigenous minority is in poor health, according to U.N. experts, missionaries, social workers and native people themselves.
Five Native American “Champions” Call for Change
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) - It's Sarah Schilling's usual manner of greeting when she meets other members of her tribe: "Aanii Sarah Schilling n'diznakaas, which translates to ‘Hello, Sarah is my name' in English," she said.
Native People More Than Just Park Rangers
- Inter Press Service
DARWIN, Australia, May 30 (IPS) - Some good-byes can actually mean the start of a long road working together. That was how it felt at the end of the World Indigenous Network (WIN) conference in this northern Australian city.
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