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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Leading Human Rights Groups to Protest at Craigslist’s HQ on 7/08/10

July 3, 2010

On July 8, 2010 at noon the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW), Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and our over 75 Co-Sponsors will protest Craigslist’s facilitation of sex trafficking…

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Surviving Guatemala

July 2, 2010

Despite the favorable response by the Guatemalan government to an order by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, indigenous peoples there fear reprisal.

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Nation of Catalan

July 1, 2010

Four years after the Catalan Parliament and the Spanish Congress approved Catalan autonomy in language, judiciary, and taxation, the Spanish Constitutional Court has launched an attack on self-determination in Catalunya.

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US in Docket

June 30, 2010

The Southwest Tribal Summit, organized by the San Carlos Apache, has issued a report to the UN Human Rights Council documenting violations by the US Government. In the 125 page…

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West Bank Journal

June 28, 2010

David Parker presents an ethnic cleansing photo essay from Palestine.

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Contesting Canada

June 27, 2010

In its coverage of the G20 Summit in Toronto, The Guardian notes that coercing consensus is an oxymoron, and that by contesting the legitimacy of Canada, indigenous activists comprise an…

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Due Diligence

June 26, 2010

Among all the horrors that afflict indigenous communities worldwide, the trafficking of women and children for the business of sexual exploitation (prostitution) has to be one of the worst. While…

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Ending Partition

June 24, 2010

Speaking at the 2010 Wolfe Tone commemoration, Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew observes that achieving justice demands an end to partition in Ireland and Palestine.

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Report on the BAVC Producers Institute

June 24, 2010

You may have heard that Sacred Land Film Project was at the BAVC Producers Institute, an intense new digital-media boot camp leading to a project presentation before a packed house…

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Basque Country

June 23, 2010

Utilizing the Mitchell Principles determined during the Northern Ireland peace process, a new Basque alliance has agreed to pursue an independent Basque state.

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Chief 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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