Category: Global Exchange
MISSION CREEP: US Military Presence Worldwide
Click “more” to view a map animation that uses Pentagon worldwide troop data from every half-decade since 1950, plus 2007, the latest year for which the data is available. These…
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Mining Boom Affecting Tribals, Environment
While India has been steadily attracting foreign investment into its booming mining sector, the fact that the best prospects lie in tribal-dominated and heavily forested areas is cause for concern.
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Born Guilty – Chile’s Hidden War Against the Mapuche
The small town of Tir
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Angst Follows Olympic Torch from Beijing to Vancouver
The 29th summer Olympics cast renewed light on China’s treatment of ethnic minorities in Tibet, and as the games wind down, a similar, if less pronounced set of controversies will…
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Guatemala Appoints Mayan Ambassador to Indigenous People
In the midst of increasing conflict between Guatemala’s indigenous people and transnational corporations, Mayan elder Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj was appointed Aug. 9 as Indigenous Peoples Ambassador for Guatemala…
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Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage, Prisoners of Conscience
For peacefully raising a flag, Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage may spend the next decade or more in prison in Indonesia. On December 1, 2004, some 200 people participated in…
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
By resolution 49/214 of 23 December 1994, the General Assembly decided to celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on 9 August every year during the International Decade…
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: U.S. and Canada Found Guilty of Racism
The international community now fully recognizes the native peoples
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The Humanities in the Digital Age
Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, delivered welcoming remarks to participants at the 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World in Miami…
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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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