Alyawarra Walkoff
Intervention walkoff’s Blog explains the conflict between Alyawarra Aboriginal people and the Australian and Northern Territory governments. The Alyawarra elders recently appealed to the UN Human Rights Commissioner for protection…
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Stop Blaming the Poor. It’s the Wally Yachters Who are Burning the Planet
It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed….
Read morePrecarious Platforms
As Global Voices notes, the crackdown on independent media by the Peruvian government has been mirrored by hackers and swarmers attacking indigenous rights bloggers. A good lesson about backing up…
Read moreWitness in Peru
Witness looks at social media and indigenous rights in Peru.
Read morePerilous Priorities
Pretentious Pretensions Assistant Secretary of State explains why human rights is not a priority with his boss.
Read moreGreenwashing Big Oil
The Alberta Tar Sands is the largest and arguably dirtiest, carbon-generating industrial project in human history. So how do the oil companies go about defeating the First Nations and bona…
Read moreDiversity or Death
As showcased on the Survival International website, the diversity of humanity is intimately tied to the diversity of nature. Given the contribution to climate change of predatory practices like deforestation…
Read moreSigns of Growing Movement in Integrative Health Care
The long and desperately needed collaboration between traditional medicine practitioners and institutionalized medical care gets more awareness and coverage. With the limits of so-called western medicine being widely acknowledged especially…
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Canadian Government Isolated as Declaration Moves Ahead
A new report released on the eve of the second anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples shows that it is increasingly…
Read moreRigged Against Justice
Philip Weiss discusses the significance and the shortcomings of the Goldstone Report, as well as the obstacles to Palestinian justice and Israeli accountability posed by the United States. As US…
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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