News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 92
BOLIVIA: Complex Challenge of Making Decentralisation a Reality
- Inter Press Service
Putting together the complex puzzle of the different kinds of provincial, municipal and indigenous autonomy in Bolivia will be a delicate task that will have to overcome struggles over funds, jurisdiction and ideology, said analysts consulted by IPS.
MEXICO: Humanitarian Convoy Braves Risk of Attack
- Inter Press Service
Despite the threat of armed attack, a second humanitarian convoy is attempting to break through a paramilitary blockade of the Triqui indigenous village of San Juan Copala in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
ECUADOR: The Great Indigenous Uprising, 20 Years On
- Inter Press Service
Friday, Jun. 4, marks 20 years since the first great indigenous uprising in modern Ecuador, an event that forever changed the country. After that day of massive actions in cities across the nation, Ecuador's native peoples could no longer be ignored.
ENVIRONMENT: Market-Based Conservation Brewing in Nairobi
- Inter Press Service
The private sector could mobilise billions of dollars to halt the loss of biodiversity, just as it does through the Clean Development Mechanism for mitigating climate change. But the proposal presented at a recent forum in the Kenyan capital has sparked debate among environmentalists.
BOLIVIA: Guaraní, Tapieté Peoples Fight Gas Exploration
- Inter Press Service
The explosive charges utilised in fossil fuel exploration in Bolivia's Chaco region divert underground water flows, scare off wildlife and harm the environment, charge the leaders of local indigenous Guaraní communities, which have been blocking access routes to keep oil company employees from entering the area.
PERU: Native Peoples' Right to Consultation on Land Use Enshrined in Law
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous peoples in Peru finally have a law that obliges the state to consult them about any project or provision that affects their territory or communities. But it will be difficult to implement, as the body charged with this task is in need of reforms, and additional legislation is needed before it can be fully enforced.
MEXICO: Optimism and Unease as Census Begins
- Inter Press Service
The 100,000 pollsters who will begin knocking on doors throughout Mexico Sunday for the national census will likely face a population hesitant to provide personal information. They may also run into the drug violence that plagues some areas of the country.
ECUADOR: Harsh Indigenous Justice Sparks Debate
- Inter Press Service
Naked and carrying a heavy bag of rocks, a young man stumbled several laps around a plaza filled by some 2,000 indigenous Ecuadoreans, who shouted insults and called him 'murderer' and 'traitor.'
Historic Conservation Pact a Decade in the Making
- Inter Press Service
It was here in Yellowknife, on an inlet of the Great Slave Lake, that Stephen Kakfwi, then a minister of wildlife and economic development who would go on to become premier of the Northwest Territories, brought together in 1996 a group that would decide which areas of the forest needed to be protected and which areas could be developed.
ISRAEL: Settlement Policy Wrong Say European Jews
- Inter Press Service
Prominent Jewish intellectuals living in Europe have begun denouncing the Israeli policy of allowing settlements to come up on Palestinian territories as 'morally and politically wrong.’’
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