News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 81
ECUADOR: Trees on Shaky Ground in Texaco’s Rainforest
- Inter Press Service
When the trunks of the trees move with every step you take, you know you are in a swamp. This is what happens when you walk over the seemingly firm and vegetation-covered ground over what was once a pit used to dump oil sludge in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Alternative Tourism Seeks to Overcome Obstacles
- Inter Press Service
Most of the countries of Central America are lagging behind the rest of the tourist destinations in Latin America, despite their impressive natural and archaeological treasures. To turn this situation around, the area is increasingly focusing on alternatives like rural tourism.
AFRICA: Responsible Travel Means Not 'Haggling Over Wooden Beads'
- Inter Press Service
Tourism as a concern found its way onto the agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro because of its potential for development but also due to its adverse effects on some populations and natural resources, particularly in Africa.
Native Women Seek Justice at U.N.
- Inter Press Service
The United States is facing international scrutiny for its apparent failure to prosecute criminals who enter indigenous territories to prey on Native women and girls.
Kurd Issue to the Fore Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Sultan Quyun, 58, longs for the day when the decades-long conflict between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces will come to an end. For her, the end of violence does not just hold the promise of a possible resolution of the Kurdish issue in the country, but would bring about, she hopes, a much-awaited reunion with her son.
Agro-Fuel Debate Takes Root in Central America
- Inter Press Service
The debate is growing in Central America over the scope of industrial crops in forested areas or subsistence farming zones, and their impact on the source of food for the rural population.
MEXICO: Peanuts in Times of Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Yandi Condado and a small group of farmers in the southern Mexican state of Puebla decided a few years ago to process their peanuts as an economic boost -- and to defend this traditional crop against the advances of more profitable options.
PERU: Rural Girls Face Barriers to Education
- Inter Press Service
'My classmates from Utupampa had to walk an hour to get to school,' said Yasmín Sena, a young woman from a village in Peru's highlands. 'That community is way up in the mountains; no cars can go there.'
ECUADOR: Still a Ways to Go, After Historic Ruling Against Chevron
- Inter Press Service
The plaintiffs in the case against Chevron tried in Ecuador, who won a historic 9.5 billion dollar verdict after a nearly 18-year struggle over environmental and health damages caused in a quarter-century of oil operations in the Amazon jungle, are not disheartened by the road still ahead.
VENEZUELA: Biopiracy Leaves Native Groups Out in the Cold
- Inter Press Service
Millions of cancer patients around the world benefit from a medication called Paclitaxel (Taxol), which may begin to be produced from a new source: fungi found at the summit of Venezuela's flat-topped mountains. But the indigenous communities who have lived in that area since time immemorial will receive no benefits, and were not even consulted on the matter.
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