Center for World Indigenous Studies

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Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

• World Bank Accountable to Indigenous Peoples

  Oct 17, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) was founded in 1944 to rebuild Japan and Germany after World War II. Once successful the IBRD found a new mission: “To fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results. To help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, FW Geo-Politics, Political, Political Economy

• Dr. Mirjam Hirch

  Oct 13, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  She was an intern at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in 2001 and then she took on the important responsibilities of a CWIS Fellow focusing on Traditional Medicine Policy.  She traveled to Tajikistan, to Switzerland, Mexico and Australia advocating the development of an implementation of policies in governments and international organizations that will advance... more →

  Posted in Health, People

• Appoint Tauli-Corpuz to UN Post

  Oct 7, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is preparing to appoint a new UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism in its new term. The Center for World Indigenous Studies, along with numerous other organizations and leaders has endorsed Ms. Victoria Lucia Tauli-Corpuz from the Philippines to fill that post. Vicky, as many know... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, Human Rights, People

• GMO vs Natural Foods and Good Health

  Oct 1, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  After more than six thousand years of row crop agriculture virtually all foods in the grocery store have been so altered they are “almost without nutritional substance–so Allison Stevens asserts in her online article: Nutritional Value of Wild Foods verses Cultivated Foods. Human cultivation produces “hybridized” plants and animals; and such interaction between people and... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, Environment, Health, Human Rights

• China & Russia and Information Weapons

  Sep 28, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  The governments of Russia, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan urged in a September 12, 2011 letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he distribute to the 66th Session of the General Assembly an “International Code of Conduct for Information Security” to regulate and restrict uses of the Internet. While the proposal specifically warns... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, FW Geo-Politics, Human Rights, Media