News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 80
MEXICO: REDD Rag to Indigenous Forest Dwellers
- Inter Press Service
The implementation of a forestry programme against climate change in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas poses a threat to indigenous people in the state, non-governmental organisations warn.
Indigenous Craftswomen Take on Mexican Fashion World
- Inter Press Service
Reina Pérez, an Otomi indigenous craftswoman in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, skilfully embroiders 'grecas' or traditional design motifs in threads of many colours, on fabrics that will be used to make dresses, skirts and blouses.
MIDEAST: The Indigenous Become Squatters
- Inter Press Service
As plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village to make way for a new, Jewish-only town move forward in Israel’s Negev desert, the Bedouin residents have submitted a motion for the right to appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court.
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Fishing Villages Turn to Int'l Justice in Fight Against Waste Duct
- Inter Press Service
Fisherfolk and indigenous people in southern Chile have petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in their 15-year conflict with Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (CELCO), a paper pulp company which plans to dump toxic waste in the ocean, and with the Chilean state for alleged human rights violations.
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf
- Inter Press Service
Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both?
Sunshine and Shadow in Rwanda's Rural Housing Programme
- Inter Press Service
The gleam of new corrugated iron sheets shimmers through the blue-green haze that veils Rwanda's rural valleys and hillsides. It is a visible sign of Rwanda’s metamorphosis from a nation devastated by genocide seventeen years ago to the fastest modernising state on the continent.
GUATEMALA: Theatre as HIV Prevention Tool in Native Communities
- Inter Press Service
Poverty, lack of access to education and taboos about sexuality have hampered campaigns for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS among indigenous communities in Guatemala. These constraints have led to the development of new ways of communicating vital information, like theatre.
WORLD HEALTH DAY: The Ten-Year Timeline for Antibiotics Burnout
- Inter Press Service
Though the World Health Organization (WHO) has focused this year's World Health Day Apr. 7 on prioritising the struggle against the global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), scores of international researchers and scientists fear this decision is coming too late, with 2011 already shadowed by the failure of pharmaceutical antibiotics to curb the proliferation of diseases.
ARGENTINA-BOLIVIA: Gas Pipeline to Boost Development, Revenues — But Not for Everyone
- Inter Press Service
'The pipeline will carry gas to Bolivia and seven provinces in Argentina, but we who live in Campo Durán, where the pipeline starts, will not have gas,' Julio Palavecino told IPS.
GUATEMALA: Evictions of Native Families Add Fuel to Fire Over Land Acces
- Inter Press Service
'We have nowhere to plant our corn, we have nothing,' Jorge Chocoj told IPS while waiting with his wife and three children for the police to evict them from the land they farmed in northwestern Guatemala.
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