News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 55
Locals Risk Their Lives Fighting Mining in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
CUERNAVACA, Mexico, Jun 27 (IPS) - "They brutally repressed us. The mining company buys off people's consciences, it divides the community, but we'll keep fighting it. Some people have had to flee the community," Rosalinda Dionisio, a Zapoteca indigenous woman in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, told IPS, sobbing.
Q&A: Empower Indigenous Women to Assert Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) - Women around the world are exposed to domestic violence, sexual and economic exploitation, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage. For indigenous women and girls, however, the risk of being victims of such issues are especially high.
Creating Their Own Spring
- Inter Press Service
GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 26 (IPS) - The soldiers of former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi had left just a few days before, but a group of about 50 children were already singing in the Amazigh language in the village of Yefren, 110 kilometres south of Tripoli. This month will mark two years since the establishment of the first Amazigh school in Libya.
Resurgence of Indigenous Identity in the Crossfire in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 19 (IPS) - The powerful tractors and other farm machinery that landowners recently used to block roads at a dozen points from north to south in Brazil illustrated the economic clout of big agriculture, which rose up against the demarcation of indigenous reserves.
Rural Mexican Communities Protest Wind Farms
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jun 18 (IPS) - "We can't sow our fields, which they have rented for next to nothing. What good do we get out of it?" Guadalupe Ramírez complained about wind farms operating in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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.
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