The Guardian just reported that an effort is underway at the UN to change the climate change negotiating rules contained in the Kyoto protocol. Attempts will be made in Bonn,…
read moreCyrano’s examines the interaction of facts, information, beliefs and misinformation in media-saturated American opinion.
read moreAs I suggested about a year ago, shortly after the US House of Representatives passed its version of climate change legislation, the Senate will fail to move on a Bill,…
read moreGlobal Indigenous Peoples Caucus comments on UNDRIP progress via the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the UN Human Rights Commission.
read moreA Harvard study of major media documents the complicity of outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in covering up official high crimes and crimes against humanity…
read moreWhile the Fourth World is popularly perceived as pastoral and nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fourth World political entities are also comprised of modern indigenous economies, still governed by the law of generosity….
read moreWhile a delegation of Mapuche seeks assistance from the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, twenty Mapuche political prisoners in two Chilean penitentiaries began a hunger strike demanding the demilitarization…
read moreAt the IUHPE 2010 world conference on health promotion last week, CWIS fellow Mirjam Hirch presented a paper on traditional knowledge and self-determination in indigenous mental health. In 2009, at…
read moreMarkets of Murder Examining the human rights case of a Canadian mining company in Guatemala, where government troops were used to destroy a Mayan village to clear the way for…
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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