News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 94
ISRAEL: The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
- Inter Press Service
Noam Chomsky, a fierce espouser of left-wing causes, is widely admired in countries which parade themselves as 'democracies'. Apparently, the admiration does not extend to Israel.
Q&A: Justice in Guatemala - A Child That No One Helped Learn to Walk
- Inter Press Service
In Guatemala, 'justice was like a child just starting to stand up' when the 36-year armed conflict came to an end, but no one helped it 'learn to begin to walk,' says Jesús Tecú, who will be awarded a prestigious international human rights prize Wednesday in New York.
MIDEAST: Chomsky - Latest Jewish Thinker Savaged by Israel
- Inter Press Service
When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Israeli government for outspoken criticism.
BOLIVIA: Amazon Indigenous Communities Plan 1,000-km March
- Inter Press Service
The indigenous peoples of the Amazon region of Bolivia have declared themselves in a 'state of emergency' and announced that on May 20 they will begin a 1,000-kilometre march to La Paz to demand that the government defend their territory from being plundered by oil, logging and mining companies.
RiGHTS: Villagers Pay Dearly for India’s War with Maoists
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year on, Dipali Sahu still recalls with horror the day an operation by the policemen and paramilitary troopers began here in June last year to take back control of the vast swathes of eastern India captured by the Maoist rebels.
MIDEAST: Is Israel Sliding Towards a Police State?
- Inter Press Service
Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has been sentenced to another three months imprisonment for allegedly refusing to perform community service in West Jerusalem.
MIDEAST: Israeli Settlers Step Up Attacks on Palestinian Mosques
- Inter Press Service
'There is immense anger as well as a feeling of vulnerability and fear when a place of sanctuary and holiness is subject to indiscriminate violence,' says Issa Hussein.
Training Young Mapuche Filmmakers in Chile
- Inter Press Service
'I want to film the few untouched natural resources we have left and show the injustices that have been committed against our communities,' Claura Anchio, who took part in an innovative free filmmaking course for young Mapuche Indians in Chile, told IPS.
ECUADOR: Native Groups Poised for Nationwide Protests Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous organisations in Ecuador opposed to a water reform bill that they say would give mining companies and agribusiness privileged access to water have threatened to extend their protests around the country in order to keep the legislature from passing the bill without certain modifications.
MIDEAST: West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own Country
- Inter Press Service
Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man’s land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused them entry.
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