The Niger Delta
Ogoni Oil The Niger Delta, home to 31 million people and one of the most important wetlands in the world, is also one of the most oil-polluted sites on Earth….
Read moreCrime With No End
In Living with the Enemy, Susie Linfield discusses what Jean Amery called “the moral necessity of undying resentment”. Examining the modern obsession of truth and reconciliation, Linfield discovers the only…
Read moreLeading Human Rights Groups to Protest at Craigslist’s HQ on 7/08/10
On July 8, 2010 at noon the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and our over 75 Co-Sponsors will protest Craigslist’s facilitation of sex trafficking…
Read moreSurviving Guatemala
Despite the favorable response by the Guatemalan government to an order by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, indigenous peoples there fear reprisal.
Read moreNation of Catalan
Four years after the Catalan Parliament and the Spanish Congress approved Catalan autonomy in language, judiciary, and taxation, the Spanish Constitutional Court has launched an attack on self-determination in Catalunya.
Read moreUS in Docket
The Southwest Tribal Summit, organized by the San Carlos Apache, has issued a report to the UN Human Rights Council documenting violations by the US Government. In the 125 page…
Read moreWest Bank Journal
David Parker presents an ethnic cleansing photo essay from Palestine.
Read moreContesting Canada
In its coverage of the G20 Summit in Toronto, The Guardian notes that coercing consensus is an oxymoron, and that by contesting the legitimacy of Canada, indigenous activists comprise an…
Read moreDue Diligence
Among all the horrors that afflict indigenous communities worldwide, the trafficking of women and children for the business of sexual exploitation (prostitution) has to be one of the worst. While…
Read moreEnding Partition
Speaking at the 2010 Wolfe Tone commemoration, Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew observes that achieving justice demands an end to partition in Ireland and Palestine.
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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