News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 97
Crunch Time for Ecuador's Biological Treasure Trove
- Inter Press Service
These are decisive days for the Yasuní National Park, one of the world's most biodiverse areas, because of the danger that its wealth of underground oil poses to this unique and fragile ecosystem in Ecuador's Amazon jungle region.
BOLIVIA: 'Living Well' in Harmony with the Environment
- Inter Press Service
The philosophy of 'Living Well' enshrined in Bolivia's new constitution is being put forward by the government as the basis for a global movement against consumerism, depredation of natural resources for profit, and current models of development.
Struggle for Native Rights Making Headway
- Inter Press Service
International efforts to protect the rights of the world's aboriginal communities seem to be gaining strength despite opposition from certain powers that continue to abuse native lands and resources in the name of development.
Opposition Mounts to Carbon Compensation Schemes
- Inter Press Service
The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which opened Monday in Bolivia, will reflect vigorous resistance to financial compensation for forest conservation in return for permits to emit greenhouse gases, activists told IPS.
VENEZUELA: Yanomami Put Body Painting Down on Paper
- Inter Press Service
Men and women of the Yanomami people paint their bodies, drawing straight, curved, dotted and parallel lines, arcs and circles, triangles, rectangles, grids, spider's webs or rings, all arranged as if on a checkerboard.
POLITICS-HUNGARY: Rightward Swing Has Fascist Overtones
- Inter Press Service
In the autumn of 2006 Hungary was rocked by a series of anti-government protests triggered by the release of a tape in which then prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány confessed to his Social-Democratic Party (MSZP) having lied to win elections that year. Now it is payback time.
MEXICO: Rights Activists Face Threats, Arbitrary Detention - and Worse
- Inter Press Service
Francisco Jiménez, a member of the National Committee of Rural and Fishing Unions (CONORP) was arrested on Apr. 7 in the Mexican capital by agents from the southern state of Chiapas in what activists say is another case of arbitrary detention.
PARAGUAY: Native Group Defends Land Claim Before Inter-American Court
- Inter Press Service
One of the three public hearings held this week in Lima by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights discussed the responsibility of the Paraguayan state for violations of the right of indigenous communities to collective ownership of their land.
CLIMATE CHANGE-BOLIVIA: In Defence of Pachamama
- Inter Press Service
Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. 19 in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba.
COLOMBIA: Indigenous Justice Put to the Test
- Inter Press Service
Feliciano Valencia, who holds the rank of minister for the Nasa indigenous people in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, was arrested Saturday but released on bail.
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