Category: Global Exchange

• Global Exchange

Latin America is living a time of autonomy movements, especially for indigenous autonomy. The demand became a central concern in national indigenous movements in the 1990s and intensified in the…

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Land. Water. Minerals. Guns. They are all connected. In India

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GUATEMALA CITY, A Guatemalan court rejected accusations lodged by Coordinaci

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On 18 October 2007, the Supreme Court of Belize ruled in Cal v. Attorney General that the national government must recognize the indigenous Mayans

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As the final moments of 2007 wound down, over three thousand attendees of the Third Encuentro of the Zapatistas with the People of the World, named

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The Canadian government’s piecemeal approach to consultation does not respect constitutional norms about the participatory and consultative dimensions of indigenous rights.

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If present demographic trends continue, West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) will be majority Indonesian (mostly Javanese) Muslim by 2011, and the indigenous Melanesian predominantly Protestant Christian Papuans will be a…

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (IPS) – At least 76 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil in 2007, 58 percent more than in 2006. The killings increased the most in…

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The European Parliament has passed a resolution that criticizes China for not addressing its human rights situation, especially in East Turkestan and Tibet, and urges the European Commission to take…

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The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, with the ultimate aim of abolishing capital punishment.