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RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster
Growing demand for biofuels by the world’s rich nations is propelling attacks on indigenous people and destroying their lands and forests, according to native leaders attending a three-week international meeting…
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Students detained at demonstration in Jayapura
The West Papuan student organization, Front Pepera, was reported to have organized a demonstration and was demanding that the Republic of Indonesian recognize West Papuan sovereignty back to the year…
Read moreA New Way of Living
While indigenous leaders like Bolivia’s president Evo Morales call on the UN member states to disinvest in war in order to invest in reversing environmental catastrophe, American citizens are once…
Read moreFood Riots, Climate Change, Its the Economy Stupid
Speaking at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations (23 April 2008) Bolivian President Evo Morales called on indigenous peoples’ delegates to recognize the importance of ancient…
Read moreGovernance Gaps
60 years into the UN human rights regime, the Human Rights Council has issued a report on the “governance gaps” in addressing corporate liability for international crimes. In the Report…
Read moreLiving Inside the Box
It is a rich ghetto. Block-type, closed- shaped buildings form a concrete jungle of cold steel and glass constructions: Living in a Bock’s in newly developed little SoHo, Deutschherrnviertel, in…
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RIGHTS: Climate a “Life and Death” Issue for Native Peoples
Leaders of the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples are calling for the United Nations to include their voices in its future talks on climate change.
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Morales to open seventh session of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
More than 2,500 representatives of the world’s 370 million indigenous people gathered in New York for the seventh session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Read moreLiberation
Captive Daughters Media has released its new anthology Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking, including an essay by our colleague and associate scholar Melissa Farley.
Read moreSpirits of the Underworld
Vanity Fair‘s Alex Shoumatoff explores the spirits of the underworld in his article The Arctic Oil Rush. Tundra methane that could dwarf fossil fuel emissions as a greenhouse gas, as…
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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