News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 63
U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (IPS) - A top United Nations official has presented the first ever international investigation into the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States, urging the adoption of new policies and mechanisms to “address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical wrongs, failed policies of the past and continuing systemic barriers”.
India Coaxes Tribal Girls Into Schools
- Inter Press Service
RAYAGADA, India, Sep 18 (IPS) - The deafening din of the lunch gong is sweet music to the 200-odd tribal girls rushing down the stairway, clutching stainless steel plates and tumblers.
Ecotourism Helps Amazon Jungle Communities Survive
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCIÓN DEL QUIQUIVEY, Bolivia, Sep 12 (IPS) - The Tsimane Mosetene people in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region have found a tool to preserve their habitat and way of life: a community ecotourism project that won a United Nations-sponsored international award.
Kenya’s Water Wars Kill Scores
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 11 (IPS) - Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalists warn.
Indigenous Consultations in Peru to Debut in Amazon Oil Region
- Inter Press Service
, Sep 05 (IPS) - Peru will debut a new mechanism for prior consultation with indigenous peoples by seeking their approval for a new stage of oil drilling operations in the infamous Lot 1AB in the northeastern Amazon region of Loreto.
Mystery Surrounds Reported Massacre of Yanomami Village
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Sep 03 (IPS) - Up to 80 Yanomami men, women and children in a remote community in the Amazon jungle in southern Venezuela were reportedly killed in early July by wildcat gold miners from Brazil, according to indigenous organisations.
Pacific Nations Women Promised a Better Deal
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Sep 03 (IPS) - Leaders of 15 Pacific Island nations have pledged to remove barriers to women’s economic empowerment, end violence against women and pave the way for their increased political representation, at the conclusion of the 43rd Pacific Islands Forum in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, last week. The meeting was also attended by the Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet.
Activists Alarmed at Release of Dorothy Stang’s Murderer
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 23 (IPS) - The release from prison of the Brazilian rancher found guilty of ordering the 2005 murder of U.S.-born rainforest activist and nun Dorothy Stang has alarmed human rights defenders, who warn that it could set a dangerous precedent in other cases involving land disputes and the rights of poor farmers.
Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (IPS) - The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups.
Colombian President Meets with Nasa Indians
- Inter Press Service
PIENDAMÓ, Colombia, Aug 16 (IPS) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos travelled to a native reserve in the southwest of the country Wednesday to meet with thousands of indigenous people who had gathered there for nearly a week, demanding an end to fighting in their territory.
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