Category: Global Exchange
Indonesia: Remove indicted colonel from West Papua
The presence in Papua of a senior Indonesian army officer indicted on crimes against humanity charges in East Timor (now Timor-Leste) endangers human rights defenders and political activists and is…
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Standing Silent Nation, Airing July 3rd on PBS
A Co-production of Native American Public Telecommunications. Alex White Plume and his extended Lakota family, or tiospaye, are known on South Dakota
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Indonesia Improving On Human Rights!, But Stronger Steps Needed
Human rights defenders in Indonesia
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Mapuche confront U.S. oil and gas companies in Argentina
Martin Velasquez Maliqueo breathed a sigh of relief June 19. He, and the four other Argentine Mapuche who stood trial with him, will not be going to prison.
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Indigenous refugees part of a newly discovered people
BRASILIA, Brazil – Fleeing gunfire and further pursuit by ”white men,” a group of previously unknown indigenous people arrived in a small western Brazilian town in the last week of…
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Indian status can be traced through mother, court rules
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has wiped out one of the most contentious aspects of the federal Indian Act, striking down part of Ottawa’s definition of a status Indian…
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Empowering Indigenous People in the Peruvian Amazon
The Shipibo of the Pucalipa region of Central Amazon in eastern Peru plan to host a gathering of Fourth World communities of the Ucayali Rio on June 21-23 to call…
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A Gathering for the Eulachon
The Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola in conjunction with the Wuixiniwx and Kitasoo-Xai
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Spotlight on: Manipur
Manipur has been a nation state since 33 AD. The Independent Manipur was forcefully taken by the government of India on 15 October 1949 with military power. from that day…
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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