Center for World Indigenous Studies

Fourth World Eye Blog

Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

• Sex Trafficking and Indigenous People

  Apr 14, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  Sex sells and it makes people money.  If you enslave people and traffick in prostitution you are committing a crime against humanity producing huge sums of money for those who promote sex trafficking. Men and some women commit this odious crime and mostly men who sit in the halls of government in many countries act... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, Health, Human Rights

• Indigenous Peoples on the Back-burner in Bangkok

  Apr 11, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  Bangkok Climate Change Agenda Setting session comes to a close The one week meeting of the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperation (AWG-LC) and the Ad-hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocols (AWG-KP) met for five days (3 April – 8 April 2011) to 1, review progress of “developed countries” toward achieving carbon dioxide and... more →

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

• Climate Talks Resume, Bolivia, China and Indigenous Peoples

  Apr 5, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  The second day of the sixteenth session of the AWG-KP (AWG-KP 16) and the fourteenth session of the AWG-LCA (AWG-LCA 14), taking place from Sunday, 3 April through Friday, 8 April at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in Bangkok, Thailand... more →

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

• Libya, A Broken State

  Apr 2, 2011 by Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D.

  When as state is broken (meaning it cannot control its borders, its laws are not universally observed, there is a central government that exercises sovereignty over the territory, but is fragmented, and it fails to have a single military or police capacity to protect the borders and secure the population), then the international community has... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, FW Geo-Politics

• North Africa Aflame – Indigenous Nations at the Center

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

  From Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, and Libya the untold story fundamental to the unrest is about the hundreds of indigenous nations, communities and groups that have suffered long suppression by dictators.  Libya is a clear example of a state where a leader of one small indigenous nations–the Gaddafi Tribe centered in the city of... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, FW Geo-Politics