Category: Global Exchange
Ecuadorian Native movements turn up the heat
On Jan. 15, Native leaders handed the ceremonial ”staff of power” to Ecuador’s new president, Rafael Correa. Now indigenous movements in Ecuador are putting the pressure on the Ecuadorian government…
Read moreIndonesia: Free Political Prisoners in Papua
At least 18 Papuans are serving sentences in Indonesian jails simply for peaceful acts of freedom of expression and opinion, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today….
Read moreUN Rep Says Killings Hurting Arroyo
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples warns that the Arroyo government
Read morePeruvian Government to Exclude Isolated Indigenous Peoples Reserves From Amazon Oil Concessions, Amazon Watch Says
The Peruvian government’s announcement that it is revising three rainforest oil concessions to exclude official reserves intended to protect some of the last native Amazonian populations still living in isolation…
Read more‘Taking a New Path instead of changing course’ – Issue #19 FWEYE
Five and one-half years since the names Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda became part of the language of fear in many parts of the world the global rein of…
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Nigeria: Ojukwu Defends Massob
Lagos PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has exonerated the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) from any…
Read moreNigeria: Corruption and Misuse Robs Nigerians of Rights
Local government officials in Nigeria
Read moreIndigenous communities take to streets demanding federal republic
Even as agitation in Terai continued unabated, Nepal National Federation of Indigenous/Janajati community took to the streets of the capital demanding federal republic in the country. The demonstrations participated by…
Read moreNigeria: Massob Denies Involvement in Anambra Abductions
Onitsha The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), has washed its hands-off from the incessant abductions of persons taking place in Anambra State in the…
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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