News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 60
Indigenous Community Takes Forest Law into Their Own Hands
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 05 (IPS) - An indigenous community in Brazil has decided to single-handedly take action against illegal loggers who are moving into their territory in search of highly valued timber.
U.S. Finally Passes Stronger Protections for Women against Abuse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 01 (IPS) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday ended more than a year of stonewalling a piece of legislation that for two decades has offered legal protections for women against sexual violence, harassment and abuse.
'Media Needs an Alliance With Minorities'
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Feb 28 (IPS) - Amid calls from world leaders for media diversity and plurality to be strengthened to combat a rising tide of extremism and intolerance, media experts have warned that change should not be expected overnight and that governments and states have a crucial role to play in the process.
India Undercuts Tribal Rights
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (IPS) - Over a decade ago, the Dongria Kondh tribe – tucked away in the Niyamgiri hills, a mountain range in the eastern Indian state of Orissa – found itself under attack.
Q&A: Building a Post-2015 Global Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, different United Nations agencies are beginning to discuss what the post-2015 Development Agenda will encompass.
Indigenous Youth Speak up to Protect Their Roots
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 (IPS) - Indigenous youthfrom some of the world's oldest living cultures are stepping forward to steer their communities past the threat of disappearance and into an age of coexistence with an increasingly globalised world.
Virtually At Sea in the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Feb 15 (IPS) - The Pacific Islands have some of the lowest rates of Internet penetration in the world, but tech-savvy urbanites are behind the emergence of a number of social media sites dedicated to generating public debate and demanding government accountability. However, without real action, online forums speaking truth to power are constrained in impacting political and social reforms in the region.
Native Peoples Say: No Consultations, No Concessions
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Feb 13 (IPS) - Representatives of native communities in the Amazon region of Peru, where the first ever "prior consultation" about a project affecting their territory will be held, have pressured the authorities into promising that their views will be taken into account every step of the way. But the government's word is no longer enough to assuage their mistrust.
In the Land of Gas, the Residents Have None
- Inter Press Service
LA PAZ, Feb 12 (IPS) - The 19,000 inhabitants of the municipality of Caraparí, the area supplying a third of Bolivia's gas exports, do not have access to gas or petrol, six years after the nationalisation of the mega deposit and almost a quarter century after its discovery.
Hydroelectric Project Threatens Chile's Lake Neltume
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Feb 06 (IPS) - "This is paradise and they want to destroy it. This has had an enormous psychological impact on us," says Guido Melinao, leader of the Mapuche indigenous community of Valeriano Cayicul, referring to the Neltume hydroelectric power plant project planned by the Spanish-Italian consortium Endesa-Enel.
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