News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 98
Q&A: 'Morales Is a Guide in a Long Period of Change'
- Inter Press Service
The resurgence of the thinking of Aymara 'amautas' or shamans about nature, the collective welfare of society and the defence of life is now a political project in Bolivia led by left-wing President Evo Morales.
MIDEAST: 'Poetic Justice' in Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama has made plain he means to deconstruct Israel’s 43-year-old grip on East Jerusalem. But, for all Washington’s pressure, Israel seeks to tighten its hold on the occupied part of the city.
MIDEAST: Palestinian Christians Barred From Jerusalem for Easter
- Inter Press Service
Israeli authorities prevented thousands of Palestinian Christians from entering Jerusalem and accessing Christianity’s most holy sites over Easter in an unprecedented clampdown on religious freedom.
PERU: Oil Pipeline and Uncontacted Tribes
- Inter Press Service
A 200-km oil pipeline that Franco-British oil group Perenco aims to build in the heart of Peru's Amazon jungle region is at the centre of a controversy because of the reported existence of uncontacted native groups in the area.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Native Peoples Reject Market Mechanisms
- Inter Press Service
Solutions to global warming based on the logic of the market are a threat to the rights and way of life of indigenous peoples, the Latin American Indigenous Forum on Climate Change concluded this week in Costa Rica.
PERU: The Tangled Paths of New Forest Law
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous protests prompted the introduction of a new legislative bill on forests and wildlife in Peru, the second most forested country in South America. Experts consulted by Tierramérica pointed to what the initiative gets right, but also to what's wrong with it.
CLIMATE CHANGE: From Copenhagen to Cochabamba
- Inter Press Service
A different way of fighting global warming will be tried out in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba when government representatives and thousands of activists gather for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
ENVIRONMENT: Forests May Depend on Survival of Native People
- Inter Press Service
After the failures in Copenhagen to agree on a new climate protection treaty, and more recently at the Doha meetings on trade in endangered species to prevent bluefin tuna from going extinct, indigenous forest communities may offer examples of sensible governance for shared resources on a small planet.
MIDEAST: Israel Hovers Between War and Peace
- Inter Press Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current visit to Washington is not just about trying to smooth over the crisis which has rocked U.S.-Israeli relations over the past fortnight.
ECUADOR: Native Leaders Call for Anti-Government Protests
- Inter Press Service
'This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.' The words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill after the 1942 defeat of Germany's forces in Africa are an apt description of the situation between the government of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).
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