News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 62
Injured Struggle in the Sahara
- Inter Press Service
KUFRA, southern Libya, Oct 20 (IPS) - Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that hit her home in February. With her immediate family all killed in the violent attack, this sole survivor smiles shyly as she visits the medics that fought to save her life.
Communal Land Titling at a Standstill in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 16 (IPS) - The titling of the lands of indigenous and peasant communities has been at a practical standstill for two years, with many of the corresponding files lost or incomplete. But the promotion of foreign investment is moving full steam ahead in the same regions.
Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 12 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.
Tribal War Simmers in Libya’s Desert
- Inter Press Service
ZWEILA, Southern Libya, Oct 11 (IPS) - A group of Tabu fighters with mud-splattered trucks rest on the outskirts of Zweila, a small historic slave-trade stop in Libya’s southwest Sahara.
Garifuna Women, Custodians of Culture and the Environment in Honduras
- Inter Press Service
TRUJILLO, Honduras, Oct 10 (IPS) - Hurricane Match, which devastated Honduras 14 years ago, prompted a group of Garifuna women to start organising, to help the people in greatest need of assistance.
Guatemala under Pressure to Investigate Shooting of Native Protesters
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 09 (IPS) - The deaths of eight indigenous demonstrators taking part in a protest against the Guatemalan government in the southwestern province of Totonicapán have provoked outrage within the country and abroad. The protesters accuse the army of shooting into the crowd.
Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 09 (IPS) - The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020.
Army’s Former Sex Slaves Testify in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 28 (IPS) - "In the garrison they had rooms where they would rape us; sometimes there were three, four or five soldiers,” Rosa Pérez*, one of the women used by the Guatemalan army as a sex slave during this country’s civil war, testified in court.
Major Extractives Firms No Longer Ignoring Community Consent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - New research from Oxfam, an international aid agency, finds that some of the largest multinational oil and mining companies are increasingly incorporating principles of community consent into their day-to-day operations.
Starving for an Equitable Food System
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - The root cause of hunger and malnutrition for millions of people worldwide lies in the severely skewed and unfairly structured hierarchy of policymakers, not in natural disasters or food shortages, according to the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 (RTFN Watch) released Tuesday.
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