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This week in Bonn, indigenous representatives discussed problems with REDD, the UN program to address climate change. As the indigenous delegates made clear, the main problem remains governance, more specifically,…

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CWIS associate scholar Melissa Farley is featured in today’s New York Times article about online sex trafficking. Dr. Farley, an authority on international trafficking of women and children for sexual…

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As explained at BDS, the time is right to initiate international sanctions against Israeli banks. SWIFT action worked against South African apartheid, and according to Terry Crawford-Brown, it can work…

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When it comes to diabetes, indigenous communities suffer disproportionately. Some of this is due to dietary changes forced on them by industrial societies, but according to The Dominion’s John Schertow,…

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Electronic Intifada reports on ethnic cleansing in the Negev. As Israeli Defense Forces and police test new methods of breaking the will of Bedouin villagers — whose land claims have…

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As we look forward to the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rising as a deadline for Irish reunification, we look to the present for Celts in Cornwall to achieve autonomous…

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The Turkish parliament has amended its anti-terror law — that now imprisons 2,000 Kurdish children for chanting independence slogans, throwing rocks, or using the peace sign at protests — to…

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It was bound to happen; now that the Irish and other activists made their point with freedom flotillas to Gaza, American moral actors want in on the theater. While this…

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CWIS Chair Rudolph Rÿser and CWIS associate scholar Anke Weisheit are scheduled to present at the 4th Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine, and Indigenous Knowledge, August 2-5, at the…

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The Ayacucho survivors of Peru‘s 20-year war against indigenous peoples still wait for reparations promised but delayed. In what amounts to around $100 for families of victims murdered by police…