As Adella Begaye notes on Indian Country Today, the EPA, Navajo government, and coal industry power brokers are making plans for the future that doesn’t include the interests of Navajo children now suffering from respiratory diseases from power plant emissions on the Navajo reservation. With three power plants emitting 100,000 tons of pollutants, including carcinogenic... more →
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Philippines government have agreed to a ministerial government for the Moro peoples autonomous region of Mindanao. After a half century of armed conflict, both sides hope this will lead to a final peace agreement... more →
Writing in Indian Country Today, Lise Balk King examines the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the context of the international human rights regime. As an expression of humanity’s aspirations, says King, UNDRIP — like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — looks to international law and global consensus to provide a... more →
Writing in Galdu, Shadrack Kavilu reports on the World Bank’s role in the creation of poverty. Working in partnership with palm oil plantation corporations and transnational financial institutions, the UN agency continues to fund development to serve the insatiable appetite of rich countries, while plundering the resources of Fourth World nations and indigenous peoples. For... more →
As Annie Bird reports in Upside Down World, the resurgence of Central American death squads, now targeting public health worker unions, are the direct descendents of those that committed genocide against the Mayans in the 1980s. Partnered then as now with US security agencies, the death squads — engaged in murdering community organizers and health... more →
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