News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 91
COLOMBIA: Palm Planters and Displaced People Wait for New Government
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-three African palm plantation owners, who invested 34 million dollars in Colombia up to 2003 and have spent another 15 million dollars on a palm oil refinery, are soon to be sentenced by a court.
MEXICO: Autonomous Triqui Community Wary of New State Government
- Inter Press Service
The autonomous indigenous Triqui community of San Juan Copala, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, is maintaining a cautious attitude towards the state government to take power after winning Sunday's elections.
PERU: 'Don't Minimise' Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill
- Inter Press Service
Pluspetrol's Jun. 19 petroleum spill has left the Marañón River, in the Peruvian Amazon, with oil and grease levels thousands of times greater than the maximum allowed for human consumption, affecting more than 4,000 local residents.
PARAGUAY: Clean Water Out of Reach for Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Of the many things that are not within the reach of everyone in Paraguay, safe drinking water is the one the indigenous population longs for most.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Will Change Way of Life on Xingú River
- Inter Press Service
At dawn, the 'captain' fired on the village leader and the shooting began. 'The forest trembled,' says one survivor: the local indigenous people fled, leaving their dead behind. Only one young girl remained. But she sank her teeth into the chest of one of the assailants with such force that they slit her throat to pull her off him.
BOLIVIA: 69-Year-Old Native Leader Heads 1,500-Km March
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous elder Ernesto Noé, 69, is once again leading his people on a long march from Bolivia's Amazon jungle, to protest environmental damages caused by the oil industry and demand respect for native land rights.
HONDURAS: Miskito Women Fight on Nature's Side
- Inter Press Service
Seven years ago, in the isolated Honduran region of Mosquitia, on the Caribbean coast, a group of women, mostly single mothers, elderly or widowed, overcame their fear and timidity -- thanks in part to a waste recycling project.
ENERGY: Brazilian Dams in Peru's Jungle, to Supply Brazil
- Inter Press Service
An energy deal that Peru and Brazil signed this week in the Amazon city of Manaus in Brazil is opposed by environmentalists and local indigenous communities in Peru where the planned hydroelectric dams will be built. What is at stake?
PARAGUAY: 'Pause' Farming Expansion in Gran Chaco, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
Extensive cattle farming in northwestern Paraguay is the leading cause of deforestation in the Gran Chaco, one of the world's leading regions in biodiversity and South America's second largest forested area, after the Amazon.
BOLIVIA-US: Drugs, USAID Complicate Relations
- Inter Press Service
Relations between Bolivia and the United States are still on a roller-coaster, two years after Bolivia expelled the U.S. ambassador, with Bolivian President Evo Morales now threatening to kick out the main U.S. government aid agency.
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