News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 64
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.
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.
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