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

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Papuan Policy

Papuan Policy

October 19, 2011

Last summer I reported on the decision by the Obama Administration to lift the ban on funding Indonesian death squads. Intercontinental Cry reports on the storming of the Papuan People’s…

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World Bank Accountable to Indigenous Peoples

World Bank Accountable to Indigenous Peoples

October 17, 2011

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) was founded in 1944 to rebuild Japan and Germany after World War II. Once successful the IBRD found a new mission: “To…

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Indigenous Peoples - WB Safeguards Policy Review

Indigenous Peoples – WB Safeguards Policy Review

October 17, 2011

Concerns and recommendations of indigenous peoples on the Safeguard Policy review of the World Bank We, the undersigned Indigenous Peoples organizations and support NGOs, wish to express our dismay over…

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Dr. Mirjam Hirch

Dr. Mirjam Hirch

October 13, 2011

She was an intern at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in 2001 and then she took on the important responsibilities of a CWIS Fellow focusing on Traditional Medicine Policy. …

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Usual Suspects

Usual Suspects

October 10, 2011

Rotten to the Core might have been a catchier title for this post, but blaming poverty pimps like the Congress of Racial Equality for gaming the system of corporate philanthropy…

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Appoint Tauli-Corpuz to UN Post

Appoint Tauli-Corpuz to UN Post

October 7, 2011

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is preparing to appoint a new UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism in its new term. The Center for World Indigenous…

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All Out Offensive

All Out Offensive

October 6, 2011

As the Palestinian people struggle to become recognized as members of the international community, the United States government has launched an all out offensive to prevent Palestine from enjoying full…

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Native Voices Exhibition

Native Voices Exhibition

October 6, 2011

An exhibition “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness,” opens today at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The exhibition tries to ‘map’ an Indigenous cultural…

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Relentless Destruction

Relentless Destruction

October 6, 2011

Six first nations on Vancouver Island have brought their complaint before the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, charging Canada with uncompensated taking of their ancestral territory…

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Universal Jurisdiction

Universal Jurisdiction

October 4, 2011

UK changes war crimes law to accommodate Israel and protect Israeli war criminals from prosecution in Britain. Amnesty International weighs in against this blatant corruption of the Geneva Conventions. While…

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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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