Category: Global Exchange
Uranium
Uranium is an award winning short film on the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Narrated by Buffy Sainte-Marie, the 48-minute film explores how uranium mining can impact the environment,…
Read moreObama: Stop Funding Indonesian Torture of Papuans
Survival is asking President Obama, who is due to visit Indonesia next week, to suspend US military assistance to Jakarta until its forces stop killing and torturing the people of…
Read moreLeak Reveals Push to Win Over First Nations on Controversial Boreal Forest Pact
A leaked document and email obtained by the Montreal Media Co-op shows major environmental organizations engaging in damage control while speedily attempting to court First Nations’ support for the Canadian…
Read moreHawaii Candidate For Governor Claimed Membership in Group That Burns Native Art
Running against former Democratic Congressional Representative Neal Abercrombie to be Hawaii’s next governor, Republican Lt. Governor James “Duke” Aiona has disavowed his relationship with an international evangelical ministry called the…
Read moreNative Women Raped by Soldiers Find Justice at Regional Court
“I dream of returning to my community and for everything to be normal again, although that won’t be easy,” Valentina Rosendo, one of two indigenous women who found justice at…
Read morePro-Sovereignty Committee Causa Galiza Launches Campaign for Self-Determination
Pro-independence forces dismiss the reform of the Statute of Autonomy proposed by PP, PSdG and BNG parties, and agree to accumulate forces to strengthen the self-determination way – The group…
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 moreReport on the BAVC Producers Institute
You may have heard that Sacred Land Film Project was at the BAVC Producers Institute, an intense new digital-media boot camp leading to a project presentation before a packed house…
Read moreConvention on Biological Diversity
The objectives of this Convention, to be pursued in accordance with its relevant provisions, are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and…
Read morePkk Announces Ceasefire Is Over
The Kurdish armed organization accuses the Turkish government of ignoring its call to hold talks – During 2009 Erdogan’s “Kurdish initiative” year, the main Kurdish party has been banned and…
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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