Category: Global Exchange
13th Indigenous Group Recognized in Taiwan
A group of aboriginal people from Hualien, eastern Taiwan were ratified yesterday as the Sakizaya tribe, officially designating them as the country’s 13th distinct indigenous group.
Read more‘Insulted’ Andean Farmers Pick GM Potato Fight with Multinational Syngenta
A coalition of indigenous farmers in South America will today (12 January) launch an international protest against the multinational corporation, Syngenta, claiming that its plans threaten their region’s biodiversity, culture…
Read moreKalahui Hawaii: Overthrow Remembered
On January 16, 1893, United States diplomatic and military personnel conspired with a small group of individuals to overthrow the constitutional government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Under the direction of…
Read moreWest Papua: Trouble in the Highlands
A humanitarian crisis is emerging in the Punjak Jaya region of West Papua. Local human rights workers report that thousands of people fled the regions of Tingginabbut, Yamu, Illu and…
Read moreSomaliland: Recent Troubles Refocus International Attention
A return of violence and turmoil to the troubled state of Somalia has refocused international attention on the unrecognised state of Somaliland, as its people continue to witness events from…
Read moreSweden’s Sami struggle over land rights
The indigenous Sami people in northern Sweden took a step toward self-determination in the New Year, when the government gave them full control of reindeer herding for the first time….
Read moreProtecting traditional knowledge
In recent years indigenous peoples’ cultural resources have become bones of contention for many different reasons. They are given different labels, manifesting the different ways in which people define them;…
Read moreIndigenous people, commerce clash over bioprospecting
Maca growers and indigenous organizations were outraged when, in 2001, a New Jersey company, PureWorld Botanicals, received a U.S. patent for exclusive commercial distribution of an extract of maca’s active…
Read moreOil Inflames Nigerian Region Again
Four decades after the bloody secessionist war first put the brutal realities of modern-day African conflicts on TV screens, the oil-rich Niger Delta region is threatening to boil over again.
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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