Indigenous communities held nationwide strike in Nepal on Wednesday, affecting public life all all major towns and district headquarters. Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NFIN), the organizer of the strike,…
read moreMexico discriminates against its indigenous population both in practice and with its laws, said a United Nations envoy in Mexico on Wednesday, following the issuing of a UN report on…
read moreBeing a village headman means little if you live in a community nestling in the hills close to Thailand’s northern border with Burma. More so, if officials have plans to…
read moreTo celebrate exactly one year of land reclamation (Six Nations, Ontario, Canada) a delegation visited Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London today (28/02/07) to present demands and show support for the…
read moreWomen from indigenous communities on Sunday said that there should be proportional representation of ethnic women in the constituent assembly on the basis of their population. Speaking at an interaction…
read moreOn Jan. 15, Native leaders handed the ceremonial ”staff of power” to Ecuador’s new president, Rafael Correa. Now indigenous movements in Ecuador are putting the pressure on the Ecuadorian government…
read moreAt least 18 Papuans are serving sentences in Indonesian jails simply for peaceful acts of freedom of expression and opinion, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today….
read moreThe United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples warns that the Arroyo government
read moreThe Peruvian government’s announcement that it is revising three rainforest oil concessions to exclude official reserves intended to protect some of the last native Amazonian populations still living in isolation…
read moreThe library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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