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A New Way of Living

A New Way of Living

April 24, 2008

While indigenous leaders like Bolivia’s president Evo Morales call on the UN member states to disinvest in war in order to invest in reversing environmental catastrophe, American citizens are once…

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Food Riots, Climate Change, Its the Economy Stupid

Food Riots, Climate Change, Its the Economy Stupid

April 23, 2008

Speaking at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations (23 April 2008) Bolivian President Evo Morales called on indigenous peoples’ delegates to recognize the importance of ancient…

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Governance Gaps

Governance Gaps

April 22, 2008

60 years into the UN human rights regime, the Human Rights Council has issued a report on the “governance gaps” in addressing corporate liability for international crimes. In the Report…

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Living Inside the Box

Living Inside the Box

April 21, 2008

It is a rich ghetto. Block-type, closed- shaped buildings form a concrete jungle of cold steel and glass constructions: Living in a Bock’s in newly developed little SoHo, Deutschherrnviertel, in…

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RIGHTS:  Climate a

RIGHTS: Climate a “Life and Death” Issue for Native Peoples

April 21, 2008

Leaders of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples are calling for the United Nations to include their voices in its future talks on climate change.

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Morales to open seventh session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Morales to open seventh session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

April 21, 2008

More than 2,500 representatives of the world’s 370 million indigenous people gathered in New York for the seventh session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

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Liberation

Liberation

April 19, 2008

Captive Daughters Media has released its new anthology Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking, including an essay by our colleague and associate scholar Melissa Farley.

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Spirits of the Underworld

Spirits of the Underworld

April 15, 2008

Vanity Fair‘s Alex Shoumatoff explores the spirits of the underworld in his article The Arctic Oil Rush. Tundra methane that could dwarf fossil fuel emissions as a greenhouse gas, as…

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Refugees’ Rights

Refugees’ Rights

April 14, 2008

It is a quiet war. In the face of brutality against peoples in numerous countries around the world European governments are banging their doors. People seeking asylum are made to…

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On Their Shoulders

On Their Shoulders

April 14, 2008

The National Congress of American Indians, Thomas W. Cowger’s history of the organization’s first twenty years (1944-1964), is a thoughtful, articulate and informative account of one of the brightest members…

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Chief 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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