News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 82
RIGHTS-PERU: At Last, Reparations for Civil War Victims
- Inter Press Service
Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country's impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations took place.
Forest Fest Makes Headway in Protection, Poverty Reduction
- Inter Press Service
Political leaders have committed to ramping up restoration of the world's forests and tackling poverty in forest communities as part of pledges made at the ninth session Forum on Forests, which wrapped up at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week.
MEXICO: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of Indigenous Women
- Inter Press Service
With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous steel pot.
BIODIVERSITY: Fighting for a Green Future
- Inter Press Service
At just 13 years old, Felix Finkbeiner may be one of the youngest participants in the two-week U.N. Forum on Forests, but he already has years of environmental activism under his belt.
PERU: Rural Education Reflects Ethnic, Socioeconomic Inequalities
- Inter Press Service
In rural villages in the Amazon district of Datem de Marañón in northern Peru, teachers often have 70 students in their one-room schoolhouses and travel two or three days to get to their jobs, said Emir Masegkai, describing the challenges of providing education in remote areas of this South American country.
Dams Threaten Aboriginal Tribe
- Inter Press Service
Over the years, the Kadars, a dwindling aboriginal tribe who live on the borders of the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, have survived pestilences, extreme exploitation and even mass sterilisations. But a new government plan to build a hydroelectric dam across the Chalakudy River would have been the death knell for the group who now number about 1,500.
Forest Summit Seeks 'People-Friendly' Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, on a hot and humid day in the Jambi province of Indonesia, a group of local farmers was critically injured after being shot as they attempted to harvest fruit on a contested palm plantation.
Q&A: ‘Wherever There was Injustice, William Stood Up’
- Inter Press Service
More than 70 years ago, an elderly Aboriginal man led the only known privately- organized demonstration against Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), the mass anti-Jewish pogrom across Germany and Austria.
ARGENTINA: Guaraní Effort to Strengthen Culture Through Tourism
- Inter Press Service
Since recovering part of their territory in 2005, an indigenous Guaraní community in the northeastern Argentine province of Misiones is working to maintain and expand a cultural tourism initiative.
Easter Islanders Seek U.N. Intervention in Dispute with Chile
- Inter Press Service
'We are a peaceful people. We don't like war. We don't want police and military on our land,' said Erity Teave, an indigenous activist from the Chilean-administered Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.
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