News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 76
Q&A: Native Peruvians 'More Marginalised Despite Growth'
- Inter Press Service
For the first time, a representative of the indigenous communities in Peru's Amazonas region is sitting in Congress: Eduardo Nayap, an Awajún leader who played a central role in the lengthy protests against laws that opened up native territories in the rainforest to oil, mining and logging companies.
EGYPT: Sinai Simmers in Security Vacuum
- Inter Press Service
Even before the recent revolution, Egypt's strategic Sinai Peninsula - inhabited mostly by restive Bedouin tribesmen - had a reputation for lawlessness. But in the months since the popular uprising that led to Mubarak's February ouster, the situation in Sinai appears more precarious than ever.
COLOMBIA: Grassroots Rural Movement Unites Behind Call for Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
'Dialogue is the Path' is the slogan that drew 25,000 people to this northern Colombian oil port city on the Magdalena river that has a history of social struggle. Most of the participants came from remote corners of the country where the brutality of war is experienced in daily life in ways unimagined by city dwellers.
Q&A: 'Climate Change Is Affecting Traditional Knowledge'
- Inter Press Service
The traditional knowledge of nature developed since ancestral times by Colombia’s indigenous peoples is increasingly challenged by the unnatural effects of climate change, a phenomenon that is deeply troubling to the keepers of this knowledge, says biologist Brigitte Baptiste.
BOLIVIA: Amazon Road Plan Has Native People on the March Again
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous people in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia are again preparing to make the long march to La Paz, 21 years after their first such protest. They have vowed to make the trek in defence of their lands, which they say are threatened by plans for a highway to be built with the backing of the Brazilian government.
COLOMBIA: Displaced Emberá Indians a Long Way from Their Land
- Inter Press Service
'I give something, you give something,' an Emberá indigenous craftswoman displaying her beautiful handiwork on a sidewalk in the Colombian capital told this reporter, saying she would pose for a photo in exchange for selling a pair of earrings.
U.S.: Tribal Council Resists Homophobia
- Inter Press Service
Heather Purser, a member of the Suquamish tribe, whose reservation sits in Washington State, came out to her family at the age of 16, but has never felt completely accepted by her people.
Ethnocentric Fishing Practices Threaten Hawaiian Communities
- Inter Press Service
As the world gears up to celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Aug. 9, a joint lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii's Federal District Court against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals the interconnectedness of environmental destruction and violations of native people's rights.
Climate Changes Bring Harsh Reality for Native Americans
- Inter Press Service
In Shishmaref, an Inupiaq village on an Alaskan barrier island north of the Bering Strait, a way of life is gradually disappearing due to higher temperatures, rising sea levels, declining numbers of sea animals to hunt, and shrinking shorelines wrought by climate change.
COLOMBIA: Native Reserve Braces Itself as Conflict Escalates
- Inter Press Service
Sitting outside her small shop, high in the mountains in the Tacueyó indigenous reserve in southwest Colombia, Liliana Alarco tries to hold back tears as she recalls the day her young son was injured.
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