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BURMA/THAILAND: Dams on Salween Threaten Indigenous Groups
Being a village headman means little if you live in a community nestling in the hills close to Thailand’s northern border with Burma. More so, if officials have plans to…
Read moreSolidarity with Indigenous Resistance, action at Canada House
To celebrate exactly one year of land reclamation (Six Nations, Ontario, Canada) a delegation visited Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London today (28/02/07) to present demands and show support for the…
Read moreIndigenous Women Seek Place in Constituent Assembly
Women from indigenous communities on Sunday said that there should be proportional representation of ethnic women in the constituent assembly on the basis of their population. Speaking at an interaction…
Read moreEcuadorian 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…
Read moreNigeria: Corruption and Misuse Robs Nigerians of Rights
Local government officials in Nigeria
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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