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

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Final Solution

November 13, 2011

If you look at the sum of UN programs rather than its pieces, a different picture emerges. As storytellers, it is our task to paint that picture through narratives that…

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Durban’s Climate Treaty by 2012?

November 12, 2011

The Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change convenes its 17th session in Durban, the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal in the country of South Africa….

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New Book by Rudolph Ryser

November 12, 2011

To be published April 2012 INDIGENOUS NATIONS AND MODERN STATES 320 pages Published by Routledge In this volume Rudolph C. Ryser describes how indigenous peoples transformed themselves from anthropological curiosities…

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Displacing Sustainable Ways

November 11, 2011

The governments of Germany and Russia have teamed up to bring the Nenet people of the Yamal Peninsula into the modern age through energy development on their indigenous territory. The…

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The Sin of Theft

November 8, 2011

Globalization clearly got off on the wrong foot with 15th and 16th century European explorers seeking to plunder indigenous peoples’ property. As the Indian Law Resource Center reports, the World…

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TNCs and Human Rights

November 8, 2011

As reported on Intercontinental Cry, the UN has established a working group to examine the behavior of transnational corporations within the framework of the international human rights regime. As globalization…

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Love and Beauty

November 6, 2011

If art is the essence of life, then love and beauty are its expression. One way we express these human sensibilities is by communicating through the visual medium. With the…

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Biofuel Genocide

November 3, 2011

Intercontinental Cry reports on the Ethiopian government’s genocidal initiative on behalf of Malaysian biofuel entrepreneurs. Violence against the indigenous Omo has already begun.

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Ethnic Cleansing of the Negev

November 1, 2011

Ethnic cleansing of the Negev continues. 40,000 Bedouins to be forcibly removed by Israel.

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Canada’s Double Standard

October 31, 2011

British Columbia First Nations seek relief before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for theft of indigenous lands by Canada.

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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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