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International Indigenous People's Forum on Climate Change

International Indigenous People’s Forum on Climate Change

November 11, 2009

CWIS has teamed up with the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) draft and negotiate the Indigenous People’s Forum Treaty Negotiating Text to be incorporated in the international…

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Congratulations CWIS!

Congratulations CWIS!

October 24, 2009

Public Good Project congratulates the Center for World Indigenous Studies on its 25th anniversary.

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Memorial Service for the Murdered Residential School Children, and a Symbolic Exorcism Rite, Conducted Outside the Vatican

October 17, 2009

The first public memorial service ever held in Rome for the victims of Catholic Indian Residential Schools was conducted today outside the Vatican shortly after Pope Joseph Ratzinger spoke to…

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Pro-indigenous and Anti-capitalist Week Comes to an End in South America

October 15, 2009

Thousands of South American indigenous people have demonstrated in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay from 12 to 16 October as part of the 'minga global' call for Mother…

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Basque Parties Criticize Arrest of 10 Leftist Pro-independence Leaders

Basque Parties Criticize Arrest of 10 Leftist Pro-independence Leaders

October 14, 2009

Batasuna’s top leader, Arnaldo Otegi, trade-union leader Rafa Diez and Rufi Etxeberria, among others, have been accused of organizing a new political group, allegedly successor of Batasuna · Basque Nationalist…

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Kenya to Drill for Oil in Samburu Territory

Kenya to Drill for Oil in Samburu Territory

October 12, 2009

Since February there have been ongoing government assaults on the Samburu people and allied tribes by the Kenyan government, with many people killed and almost all Samburu cattle confiscated. The…

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‘GUILTY’: UK Government Blasts Vedanta in Unprecedented Attack

October 12, 2009

The UK government today blasted FTSE-100 company Vedanta Resources over its treatment of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India.

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Ecuadorians Protest New Water Law

Ecuadorians Protest New Water Law

September 30, 2009

“We're crazy for water,” chanted about a thousand campesinos as they marched through the streets of downtown Cuenca in southern Ecuador on Monday. The march, called for by the Confederation…

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Stop Blaming the Poor. It’s the Wally Yachters Who are Burning the Planet

Stop Blaming the Poor. It’s the Wally Yachters Who are Burning the Planet

September 28, 2009

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….

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Canadian Government Isolated as Declaration Moves Ahead

Canadian Government Isolated as Declaration Moves Ahead

September 22, 2009

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…

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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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