News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 65
Death Stalks Pregnant Women in East Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
MAE SOT, Thailand, Jul 17 (IPS) - From a wooden, weather-beaten building on the edge of this border town, Mahn Mahn charts dangerous missions deep Myanmar (also Burma) for the 2,000-odd health workers under his wing.
Cameroon's Baka Evicted from Forests Set Aside for Logging
- Inter Press Service
As Lysette Mendum listens to the sound of bulldozers crashing through the forest clearing a road to a mining site near her small village of Assoumdele in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest block in Cameroon’s East Region, she has never been more fearful in her life.
Indigenous Message to Rio+20: Leave Everything Beneath Mother Earth
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous leaders from all over South America are making their way by foot, canoe and eventually on buses to be part of the Kari-Oca Caravan to Rio de Janeiro, to talk to world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20.
MEXICO: Farmers Use Traditional Knowledge to Deal with Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Small farmers in Mexico, who receive little institutional support, are drawing on their traditional knowledge to deal with and adapt to climate change, experts say.
Youth Reaffirm Indigenous Identity
- Inter Press Service
Barefoot and clad in traditional clothes, over a hundred indigenous Aetas gathered around a bonfire in a community nestled in the mountains of Capas town, in the Philippines’ Tarlac province. They had come together to celebrate their traditions and to instill in youth a sense of pride in their cultural identity.
Politics Heats Up Around Arctic Thaw
- Inter Press Service
The best way to protect the Arctic is for all nations with an interest in the region to participate in its governance - including non-Arctic nations like China, Brazil, and Singapore - suggests a new report.
Midwives Play Key Social Role in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
'Midwives in Guatemala attend to women during pregnancy, the birth and the post-partum period. They give the women warmth and support, because they speak the same language and belong to the same culture,' said Silvia Xinico with the Network of Organisations of Indigenous Women for Reproductive Health.
Elders in Peruvian Andes Help Interpret Climate Changes
- Inter Press Service
A unique response to the challenge of global warming is happening in rural areas of Peru, where a network of indigenous elders is working out how to adjust weather forecasts in the light of climate change, while taking measures to safeguard their crops.
Brazilian Indigenous Community Seeks Survival Through Carbon Credits
- Inter Press Service
Less than 45 years ago, the Paiter-Suruí, an indigenous people living deep inside the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, had never been in contact with the outside world. Today they hope to ensure their survival through the complex mechanisms of the carbon market.
Native Canadians See Way of Life Under Assault
- Inter Press Service
Canada's West Coast First Nations are feeling overwhelmed by crises affecting their land rights, economic well-being and health, prompting warnings in one territorial dispute with a local energy company that the country risks a degeneration of Aboriginal-federal government relations to a level unseen in two decades.
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