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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN COLOMBIA.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN COLOMBIA. ...

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by Amnesty ...

40000 prostitutes may enter South Africa during World Cup

Times of India

NEW YORK: Soccer World Cup organizers have warned that close to 40000 prostitutes may enter South Africa during the mega event. ...

Pilbara native plant nursery opens

ABC via Yahoo!7 News Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:15 PM PST

A small indigenous community in Roebourne has launched a new native-plant nursery which aims to create long-term employment opportunities for local Aboriginal people.

Indianz.Com > News > Opinion: Indigenous identities hidden by 2010 Census

ndianz.Com - Your Internet Resource. Your American Indian and Native American news, information, and entertainment resource. Indianz.Com provides up-to-date, relevant resources about Native American / American Indian tribes in the United States and Alaska and First Nations communities in Canada.

BBC News - Zimbabwe forces foreign firms to give up majority stake -

1 Mar 2010 ... A Zimbabwean law that forces foreign-owned companies to sell a majority stake in their businesses to indigenous people comes into effect.

Indigenous People: Botswanaâ??s treatment of Bushmen

Scoop.co.nz Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:49 PM PST

The UNâ??s top official on indigenous rights has condemned Botswanaâ??s continued persecution of the Bushmen in a new report.

Indianz.Com > News > Tim Giago: Indigenous in America, Australia ...

There is a colonization connection the indigenous people of Australia and America ... Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota, is the publisher of Native Sun News. ...

Abduction of aboriginal whaling rights

BBC News Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:56 AM PST

Commercial and political interests are abusing historical whaling rights of indigenous people

Bangladesh says EU comments 'unfortunate'

Sify News Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:38 AM PST

Bangladesh Sunday described as "unfortunate" European Union calls for an independent probe into allegations of military involvement in attacks on indigenous people in the insurgency-hit southeast.

Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalists Slam Laiban Dam Project

Bulatlat.com Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:58 PM PST

Press Release 26 February 2010 Environmental activists and indigenous people under the Network Opposed to Laiban Dam (NO to Laiban Dam) held a protest action in front of the main office of Danding Cojuangco-owned San Miguel Corporation (SMC) denouncing the efforts of the company to push through with the controversial Laiban Dam project in Rizal province. â??If integrity [...]

Samoa News| UN: Aboriginal program violates human rights

In an advance copy of a report to be released next week, the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous human rights, James Anaya, expressed serious ...

Mixed feelings on preamble

The North West Star Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:46 PM PST

MEMBERS of Mount Isa's Indigenous community were unfazed about the changing of Queensland's constitution to recognise Indigenous people. The laws introducing a preamble to Queensland's const

'Racist' Indigenous watchdog plan rejected

ABC via Yahoo!7 News Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:05 PM PST

A plan to form a watchdog consisting solely of Aboriginal politicians who would monitor how the Government spends money on Indigenous people has been labelled as racist.

UN envoy demands changes to 'racist' intervention

Brisbane Times Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:25 AM PST

THE government must purge the Northern Territory intervention of racist measures that stigmatise indigenous people, a United Nations representative says.

Treated like dogs': police racism claim settled

ABC via Yahoo!7 News Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:25 PM PST

A Northern Territory Aboriginal man who lodged a complaint against police is encouraging other Indigenous people to do the same thing.

Artists, indigenous folk come to terms

Philippine Daily Inquirer Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:59 AM PST

OFELIA PAPO, A 16-year-old Iraya Mangyan, is proud of her culture. A third year high school student in Puerto Galera town in Oriental Mindoro, she knows her peopleâ??s songs and rituals. So when other people portray them wrongly, she sees it as an insult and disrespect.

Identifying the risks for Indigenous violent victimisation

Australian Policy Online Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:05 PM PST

Creator:Â Colleen Bryant The impact of violence on Indigenous people and their communities has been widely documented by government and non-government inquiries, reports and commentaries. This paper summarises the demographic and social factors associated with being a victim of violence. Social Policy

Indigenous camps 'crying out for transport'

ABC via Yahoo!7 News Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:35 PM PST

An Alice Springs town camp resident says people in remote Indigenous communities are finding it difficult to get transport because of the changeover from councils to shires.

Amnesty: British mine will harm local Indians

Morning Star Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:46 AM PST

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has warned that a British company's proposed mine would harm indigenous people in eastern India - who already suffer from polluted water and air because of the company's nearby refinery.

Vail Daily column: A deadly turn from tradition

The Vail Trail Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:14 AM PST

I can see how traditional indigenous healers might get cranky with New Agers borrowing from their heritage. Especially when people get killed. I just happened to attend parts of a weekend seminar on the medicine wheel - put on by Northern Cheyenne horseman and leader Phillip Whiteman - in Carbondale right after three people died in a Sedona, Ariz., sweat lodge last fall. Whiteman's take was that ...

Kenya: Indigenous Rights Ruling Could Have Big Impact on Land Disputes

UN Observer Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25 PM PST

2010-02-11 | In 1973, Kenya forced the Endorois people off their ancestral land in the heart of the Great Rift Valley to create a wildlife reserve, plunging a community of traditional cattle-herders into poverty and pushing them to the brink of cultural extinction.

Treaty gives Maori 11 volcanic cones

UPI Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:34 PM PST

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- The New Zealand government and leaders of the Maori people signed a treaty Friday giving the indigenous tribe ownership of 11 volcanic cones in Auckland.

FEATURE; Canada's indigenous people divided over Olympic role

EARTHtimes.org Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13 PM PST

Vancouver - Canada is putting the spotlight on its aborigines in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games. And when the Olympics open on Friday, some of the First Nations, as Canada's indigenous people prefer to be called, will ...

Horseback rider draws attention to indigenous people's plight ...

Horseback rider draws attention to indigenous people's plight. Kim Raff/The News & Advance. Matthew McDaniel rides his horse, Hampton, down U.S. 221 in ...

Rights group: Vedanta mine would hurt India tribes

INO News Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:40 AM PST

(AP:NEW DELHI, India) Amnesty International warned Tuesday that a British owner's proposed mine would harm indigenous people in eastern India who already suffer from polluted water and air because of the company's nearby refinery.

The Sami People's Day celebrated

The Norway Post Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:41 PM PST

Today, Saturday February 6th is celebrated as the indigenous Sami People's Day in Norway and other Scandinavian countries. The day is official flag day in Norway, and the Sami flag is flown on all official buildings.

The Bo Vanish: Death of a Civilization - ABC News -

On a small island 750 miles off the coast of India, one woman's death marked the end of an ancient civilization. Bao Sr was 85, as best she knew, ...

Kenya loses case on indigenous land rights - UPI.com

United Press International - News. Analysis. Insight. ... and People's Rights a victory for indigenous people struggling to keep their traditional lands. ...

The World Today, Feb.4 - South Africa's last apartheid-era president reflects ...

Vancouver Sun

By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver SunFebruary 4, 2010 11:17 AM Frederik de Klerk, the last white president of apartheid South Africa from 1989 to 1994, ...

Kenya : Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights

AllAfrica.com Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:43 AM PST

A ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peopleâ??s Rights condemning the expulsion of the Endorois people from their land in Kenya is a major victory for indigenous peoples across Africa, Human Rights Watch, WITNESS, and the Endoroisâ?? lawyers said today.

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