News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 87
Millennium Goals Far Off for Mexico's Indigenous Population
- Inter Press Service
It is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of anti-poverty targets adopted by the international community, will be met for Mexico's indigenous people, a new United Nations report says.
PERU: Women Sterilised Against Their Will Seek Justice, Again
- Inter Press Service
Poor, rural, Quechua-speaking women in the Peruvian province of Anta who were victims of a forced sterilisation programme between 1996 and 2000 have filed a new lawsuit in their continuing struggle for justice.
U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration
- Inter Press Service
Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States is in the process of reviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
MALAYSIA: Battle Over Indigenous Groups’ Land Rights Shaping Up
- Inter Press Service
As the tabling in Parliament of a proposed law affecting their ancestral land draws near, Malaysia’s Orang Asli or ‘original people’ are gearing up anew for moves to challenge it.
EGYPT: Cornered Bedouin Play the Border Card
- Inter Press Service
Since June, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has witnessed an unusual flurry of local crises. The peninsula shares a border with both the Gaza Strip and Israel, and is inhabited mostly by the Bedouin tribe.
ECUADOR: Social Movements to Go Ahead with Int'l Meetings Despite Crisis
- Inter Press Service
'What lies ahead in Colombia is an increase in the number of refugees and displaced persons, while in Guatemala and Mexico people are going to continue leaving their countries in difficult conditions in which they face dangers to their lives,' said Nelsy Lizarazu, one of the spokespersons for the Fourth World Social Forum on Migration.
MEXICO: Native Women Raped by Soldiers Find Justice at Regional Court
- Inter Press Service
'I dream of returning to my community and for everything to be normal again, although that won't be easy,' Valentina Rosendo, one of two indigenous women who found justice at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, told IPS.
PERU: Women Farmers Dream in Organic Flavours of Coffee
- Inter Press Service
It's Saturday and the women hurry in to the cooperative's warehouse in this rural town in southeastern Peru with their huge bags of coffee beans on their backs. Some come on their own, others are accompanied by their husbands or children. But they have all hiked long distances from their farms in the mountains where they grow some of the world's top organic specialty coffee.
CHILE: Society's Incomprehension Fuels Mapuche Hunger Strike
- Inter Press Service
As concern grows for the health and lives of 38 Mapuche prisoners on a hunger strike in different prisons in southern Chile, IPS consulted academics about the problems underlying the conflict.
MIDEAST: Homeless Bedouin Take On the State
- Inter Press Service
The pukk...pukk ...pukk of a generator wired into the engine of a small truck punctures the silence of the desert. A man folds the bottom of his long yellow galabiya robe, tucking it into his blue jeans. He takes a plank of wood from the back of the truck and carries it over to a younger man who is sawing other planks.
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