News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 72
GUATEMALA: Incoming Government Has Its Job Cut Out
- Inter Press Service
One of the highest poverty levels in Latin America, one of the highest murder rates in the world, and much-needed political and tax reforms are some of the pressing challenges that will face Guatemalan president-elect Otto Pérez Molina.
CLIMATE CHANGE-PERU: Rural Women Share Their Trials and Wisdom
- Inter Press Service
'This year the freeze killed my crops, our small livestock died, and now I can't even sleep because I'm worried sick thinking about how to put food on my family's table, since I'm a widow,' said Rosaura Huatay, an indigenous farmer in Peru's northern Andes highlands.
GUATEMALA: 'We Want Girls to Be Visible'
- Inter Press Service
'I learned to not be afraid, and to love myself. Before, I never wanted to talk to people because I felt like they looked down on me and that I was no good,' says 12-year-old Hilda Tura, one of the participants in a programme fostering leadership among indigenous girls in Guatemala.
COLOMBIA: Amazonas 2030 - Indicators for the Climate Crisis
- Inter Press Service
'It's great news' that the Colombian government is studying the cancellation of mining titles that have been granted in protected areas and in border zones declared national security areas, anthropologist Martín von Hildebrand, director of the Gaia Amazonas Foundation, told Tierrramérica.
U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
While the Occupy movements sweeping the U.S. have become almost synonymous with democracy, consensus-based processes, human microphones and other symbols of unity, many populations in the country have felt isolated by the language and tactics of the movement.
MEXICO: Wixáritari Indians Fight Mining in Sacred Desert Site
- Inter Press Service
Some 200 Wixáritari or Huichol men, women and children travelled 20 hours from western Mexico to the capital to defend their sacred ceremonial sites from silver mining.
BRAZIL: Boycott of Dam Hearing Shows 'Radical' Foreign Policy Shift
- Inter Press Service
Activists opposed to the construction of the Belo Monte hydropower dam in the Amazon jungle say the Brazilian government's decision to boycott an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing represents a 'radical' shift in the country's foreign policy.
MIDEAST: Israel Evicting the Indigenous
- Inter Press Service
As Israel moves ahead with a plan to forcibly displace tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, Mohammad Al-Korshan and his family are facing the real prospect of not only losing their home, but their traditional way of life.
VENEZUELA: Government Distributes Land to Yukpa Indians
- Inter Press Service
The Venezuelan government's decision to expropriate 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares of land to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country partially makes up a long-standing debt to the native group.
BOLIVIA: Native Protesters Celebrate Law Cancelling Rainforest Road
- Inter Press Service
With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defence of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia's Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.
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