Category: FW Geo-Politics
Cancun, Climate and the Alternative
For years now I have been writing in this column that while the idea of negotiating a global agreement on climate change is essential to the world’s wealth and health…
Read moreAccess & Benefit: Genes
Nagoya, Japan – The 10th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity produced a truly wilted plan for governments, non-governmental organizations, businesses and indigenous peoples to meet the…
Read moreState Department Cancels Cancun for Forestry Panel
The US Department of State canceled a “side-event” planned for the UN Conference of Parties 16 meeting in Cancun. The session was to include tribal participants, but the UN would…
Read moreGlobal CBD and Climate Agreements…Impossible
The United Nations has been the venue for terribly important negotiations concerning biological diversity, climate change, intellectual property, and matters as disturbing as human trafficking. Despite the prodigious efforts of…
Read moreCanada Obstructing Indigenous Peoples – CBD
During the long years when indigenous peoples spent their very limited resources to travel to Geneva, Switzerland to help formulate language for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…
Read moreClimate Failure Postscript – loop holes
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 moreThe US Fails on Climate Change – Indigenous Peoples Threatened
As 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 moreDumping Waste & Pollutants
New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote, “If Americans abhor poorly regulated deep-water oil drilling, wait until they get a load of nuclear waste on land with no regulatory agency…
Read moreBP Gulf Oil Spill and Louisiana Tribes
Aside from the ecological devastation caused by the BP Gulf Oil Spill in the ocean, tribal lifeways of South Louisiana are also at risk. This leaves members of the Pointe-Au-Chien…
Read moreUN Indigenous Discourse A Disappointment
I sat in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations at the 9th Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues last week listening to speakers from North American…
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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