News headlines for “Rights of Indigenous People”, page 99
ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities
- Inter Press Service
Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.
PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo
- Inter Press Service
Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
PERU: Relocating Entire Villages for Mines, Dams
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Peruvian communities were displaced as they fled the 1980-2000 civil war. Today the government is pushing for urgent passage of a law that would facilitate the relocation of entire villages or neighbourhoods in mineral or energy-rich areas.
RIGHTS: What Fish may do for Western Sahara
- Inter Press Service
Legal advice stating that European vessels have no justification to fish off Western Sahara - a territory occupied by Morocco - has provoked a row between the main political institutions in Brussels.
RIGHTS-PERU: No Justice for Indians in Amazon Massacre
- Inter Press Service
Although the technical investigations cleared two of the indigenous demonstrators accused in the murders of 12 policemen during a bloody June 2009 clash between native protesters and the security forces near the northern Amazon jungle town of Bagua, they are still behind bars.
RELIGION-TURKEY: Alevi's Future Bleak Despite Equality Moves
- Inter Press Service
A political initiative to eliminate discrimination against the Alevi, Turkey’s main religious minority, risks being stymied by the Diyanet, the country’s powerful religious body that does not recognise anything but Sunni Islam.
CANADA: Resistance Casts Pall over 2010 Olympic Festivities
- Inter Press Service
The 2010 Winter Olympics opened with the largest protest convergence in the history of the Games.
CHILE: Mapuche Indians Set Up Autonomous Legal Defence Unit
- Inter Press Service
As tensions mount in Chile's Mapuche territories, the indigenous people have created a new legal defence body for cases involving resistance against the state, as they put little stock in the justice system for working out cases such as land disputes.
SRI LANKA: The Post-Election Road Ahead for President Rajapaksa
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lankans witnessed one of the country’s most contentious elections ever when President Mahinda Rajapaksa staved off the challenge posed by his former Army commander, Sarath Fonseka, and clinched more than 1.8 million majority votes during the Jan. 26 poll.
NICARAGUA: Can Army Protect Plundered Forest Reserves?
- Inter Press Service
The Nicaraguan state has embarked on an iron-fisted policy, including the use of military force, to clamp down on those responsible for environmental depredation, after repeated denunciations by organisations and government officials that the country's two largest biosphere reserves are being plundered.
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