Peruvian Government to Exclude Isolated Indigenous Peoples Reserves From Amazon Oil Concessions, Amazon Watch Says
The 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 moreNigeria: Corruption and Misuse Robs Nigerians of Rights
Local government officials in Nigeria
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Nigeria: Ojukwu Defends Massob
Lagos PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has exonerated the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) from any…
Read moreIndigenous communities take to streets demanding federal republic
Even as agitation in Terai continued unabated, Nepal National Federation of Indigenous/Janajati community took to the streets of the capital demanding federal republic in the country. The demonstrations participated by…
Read moreNEPAL: Revolution Within a Revolution
A 12-day uprising by Nepal’s ‘madheshi’ (plains) people has forced the revolutionary government to promise it will change the state structure to more fairly distribute power to excluded groups.
Read moreSomalia: Somaliland Requests AU Heads to Recognize Its Sovereignty in Addis Ababa Summit
The breakaway republic of Somaliland has requested the African heads at the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to officially recognize the independence of Somaliland.
Read moreNigeria: Massob Denies Involvement in Anambra Abductions
Onitsha The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has washed its hands-off from the incessant abductions of persons taking place in Anambra State in the…
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MASSOB members demonstrating in London
In August 2006 when the Nigerian information minister went to London to portray that Nigeria is the hope of Africa, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of…
Read moreIndigenous land-use money ‘wasted’
A new study has found many of the land use agreements between Indigenous people, mining companies and governments are poorly constructed, and ride roughshod over the rights of Aborigines.
Read morePremier Su announces government policies to resolve indigenous tribes’ land issues in Taiwan
Premier Su announced that the Council of Indigenous Peoples will appropriate funds over the next two years to buy back land from Taiwan Sugar that originally belonged to indigenous tribes….
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The 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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