News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 75
MIDEAST: Not School Time Yet for Bedouin Girls
- Inter Press Service
For mother of five Shimaa al-Aasam, providing her children with the opportunity to complete their education despite a severe lack of classrooms in their Bedouin community is of prime importance.
Q&A: Mighty Maya Cities Succumbed to Environmental Crisis
- Inter Press Service
The latest archeological findings in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala lend further credence to the theory that the Maya civilisation that once flourished there was brought down by environmental causes such as deforestation.
CANADA: Native Lands Ruling Opens Up New Questions
- Inter Press Service
As Canada's aboriginal community celebrates last month's milestone legal ruling regarding clear-cutting in Ontario and the forestry sector mulls its future strategy, discussions are taking place about how to carry out an impact assessment evaluating damage incurred by decades of industry encroachment on traditional lands and forests.
BOLIVIA: Rainforest Road Will Have Environmental and Cultural Impacts
- Inter Press Service
A richly biodiverse rainforest the size of 3,000 soccer fields in central Bolivia will be the first victim of the road planned to run through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), say environmental activists.
Q&A: 'Civilians Must Not Suffer the Effects of the Armed Conflict' in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous people in the province of Cauca in southwest Colombia want their territory to be free of war, and are organising a protest march to demand that the police and military close down their bases and the guerrillas abandon their camps in the native reservations in the north of this mountainous province.
CONGO: Poachers Feel the Long Arm of New Law
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in the Republic of Congo are showing an encouraging new readiness to arrest and prosecute people trading in endangered species.
PAKISTAN: For Shia Hazaras, it’s Funeral After Funeral
- Inter Press Service
Rukhsana Ahmed finds comfort visiting her husband Ahmed Ali Najfi’s grave. 'I feel at peace there,' says the 60-year-old widow, mother of four and member of the Shia Hazara community.
BOLIVIA: Morales Clashes with Native Protesters over Road through Tropical Park
- Inter Press Service
The lack of regulations for consulting indigenous communities in Bolivia on initiatives that affect their territories is at the heart of a dispute over a road to facilitate traffic from Brazil, which would run through an enormous tropical national park self-governed by indigenous communities.
Lenape Take On Ford
- Inter Press Service
'We have been living here for thousands of years. Unfortunately, we are the original people of this land, but we get no respect,' says Vivian Milligan, in a tone filled with sarcastic laughter.
CONGO: Many Indigenous Women Still Give Birth in the Forest
- Inter Press Service
Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the southwestern Republic of Congo. 'I am six months pregnant already, but I hesitated to come here before now, because there is so much contempt for us,' the thirty-year-old indigenous woman tells IPS. 'Yet I was warmly welcomed.'
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