News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 95
INDIA: Mobile Phone-Based News System Gives Voice to Tribals
- Inter Press Service
The central Indian remote jungles of Chhattisgarh and the urban technology- savvy node of Bangalore are now linked by a mobile phone-based information system, a first in the world, called CG Net Swara.
Torture - Live And Well In Turkey
- Inter Press Service
Six years after the ruling Justice and Development Party government declared ‘zero tolerance’ for torture, the practice prevails in Turkey, human rights monitors in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern region say.
Indigenous Forum Closes on Note of Hope, and Caution
- Inter Press Service
Friday marked the last day of the two-week Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with attendees expressing optimism but also concern about the ongoing encroachment of industrial and development projects into native lands.
RIGHTS-PERU: Soldiers' Acquittal Reflects Trend of Impunity
- Inter Press Service
The acquittal by a Peruvian court of two soldiers and a police officer charged with the forced disappearance of four peasant farmers in the Andean highlands region of Ayacucho is viewed as a serious setback by the families of victims of human rights violations during the 1980-2000 civil war.
MEXICO: Terror Returns to Oaxaca
- Inter Press Service
A violent incident in which two activists were killed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has raised fears among human rights groups of a return to the unrest and severe clashes between protesters and police that virtually paralysed the state in 2006.
Poor Communities Struggle to Attend U.N. Indigenous Meet
- Inter Press Service
'You will never suffer from fatal diseases like cancer and ulcer if you drink mare's milk,' says Anna Postnikova, who is currently attending a major U.N. meeting on indigenous issues.
2010 — International Year of Biodiversity Loss?
- Inter Press Service
In 2002, world leaders committed to reduce the rate of global biodiversity loss by 2010, but the date has come and gone for these commitments to be fulfilled.
KENYA: Successful Weather Prediction Uses Old and New
- Inter Press Service
In the wake of ever-changing climatic conditions, a study in western Kenya has discovered that combining traditional methods of weather prediction with meteorological forecasting is the best way of obtaining more accurate forecast data.
ECUADOR: Native Groups in Showdown Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
The second and final parliamentary debate of a new water bill to regulate water resource management in Ecuador is due to begin May 4, amid stark divisions among indigenous movements and between them and the government of left-leaning President Rafael Correa.
Native Delegates Challenge Development Orthodoxy
- Inter Press Service
While aboriginal peoples represent approximately five percent of the world's population, they are 10 percent of the world's poor, according to a new World Bank report on 'Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development'.
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