Category: Global Exchange
Somalia: Somaliland Requests AU Heads to Recognize Its Sovereignty in Addis Ababa Summit
The breakaway republic of Somaliland has requested the African heads at the AU summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to officially recognize the independence of Somaliland.
Read moreNEPAL: Revolution Within a Revolution
A 12-day uprising by Nepal’s ‘madheshi’ (plains) people has forced the revolutionary government to promise it will change the state structure to more fairly distribute power to excluded groups.
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MASSOB members demonstrating in London
In August 2006 when the Nigerian information minister went to London to portray that Nigeria is the hope of Africa, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of…
Read moreIndigenous land-use money ‘wasted’
A new study has found many of the land use agreements between Indigenous people, mining companies and governments are poorly constructed, and ride roughshod over the rights of Aborigines.
Read moreNew head of Asia panel in U.S. Congress champions self-determination for Papua
The new chairman of a congressional panel on Asia promises to turn a spotlight on a little known, long-simmering independence movement in the Indonesian province of Papua.
Read moreResurrection
After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale
Read morePremier Su announces government policies to resolve indigenous tribes’ land issues in Taiwan
Premier Su announced that the Council of Indigenous Peoples will appropriate funds over the next two years to buy back land from Taiwan Sugar that originally belonged to indigenous tribes….
Read more‘Where are your women?’ Look around
Washington had a first last week, the swearing in of one new state senator, Claudia Kauffman. She’s the first Native American woman to be elected to that body. “Where are…
Read moreSelf-government’s roots: Communities
The origins, and continuity, of American Indian rights to self-government are not well-understood, but are extremely important to contemporary American Indian communities. Most people in the general American public don’t…
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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