Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Indigenous Peoples'
Politicization and Underfunding Have Dogged Indigenous Institutions
by Louisa Reynolds, Latinamerican Press, Peru - On May 16, a group of young indigenous representatives, dressed in traditional Mayan attire, were gathered at the headquarters of the Guatemalan Indigenous Development Fund (FODIGUA), in Guatemala City, to take part in...
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt convicted of genocide in Guatemala
by Sonia Perez Diaz, The Independent, UK - Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their...
Ecuador’s Indigenous People Still Waiting to Be Consulted
by Ángela Meléndez, IPS News, Italy - The Constitution of Ecuador adopted in 2008 establishes a broad range of rights for indigenous peoples and nationalities, including the right to prior consultation, which gives them the opportunity to influence decisions that...
Native Women Bring Solar Energy to Chile’s Atacama Desert
by Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Italy - Three indigenous communities from the Chilean highlands have just received solar panels, which will be set up and maintained by unlikely solar engineers: five native women who travelled halfway around the world to India...
Historic Mapuche Land Conflict Flares Up
by Marianela Jarroud, IPS, Italy - A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the “supine ignorance” displayed by...
Indigenous Leaders Demand to Be Heard
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - The fight to save the environment from predatory multinationals is currently one of the greatest causes of social unrest in Latin America....
Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement between LA and Nevada Tribe
by Mary Anne Hitt, Grist, USA - This Moapa Solar project is one of two long-term solar purchasing agreements that, along with the CLEAN LA Feed-in-Tariff solar program, are designed to replace power from Arizona’s Navajo Generating Station coal plant...
Ontario First Nation Wins Cleaner Forest after 10 Years of Logging Blockade
by Anna Willow, Yes!, USA - On December 3, 2002, members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blockaded the road used to haul logs out of the area. Ten years later, their persistence has paid off in the form of...
To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead
by Sarah van Gelder, Yes!, USA - It takes humility to recognize that what we’ve called progress isn’t always for the better. Sometimes nature’s original idea was a better one....
Biodiversity Protection Needs Community Input
by T.V. Padma, SciDev, UK - A pledge to increase support for biodiversity targets in developing countries is welcome, but care for indigenous people is vital too....
“Walking the True Word Around the World”: State Violence, Global Solidarity, and a New Campaign to Support the Zapatistas
by Jessica Davies, Upside Down World, Canada - In early September a large number of political party members in paramilitary-style groups carrying high-calibre firearms invaded the Zapatista communities of Comandante Abel and Unión Hidalgo, firing shots....
Steps Toward a Lasting Peace
by Susan Abad, Latin American Press, Peru - After more than 50 years of conflict and several failed negotiation attempts between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, President Juan Manuel Santos initiated a new...
Sexual Violence Is Tearing Native American Communities Apart
by Lauren Wolfe and Lauren Chief Elk, Guardian, UK - One in three Native American women report they have been raped. More needs to be done to bring perpetrators to justice....
Declaration of War in Mato Grosso do Sul
by Alice Marcondes, IPS, Italy - The land conflict between the Guaraní-Kaiowá indigenous people and large landowners in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a powder keg ready to explode, say observers....
A Walk to Heal theTar Sands
by Kristin Moe, Yes!, USA - Take an 8-mile trek with indigenous groups through one of the world's largest ecological dead zones, and you might find something lifegiving....
Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
by Fabiola Ortiz, IPS, Italy - The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous...
Hip-Hop Kichwa: Sounds of Indigenous Modernity
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - You know hip-hop has become a universal language when indigenous peoples from the Andes use art forms developed by African-Americans in the south Bronx to contest power structures in Paris....
Where Are Canada’s Missing Native Women?
by Fawzia Sheikh, Inter Press Service - First Nations’ leaders are calling on the Canadian government to establish an independent commission of inquiry to investigate at least 582 missing and murdered indigenous women and girls – a wish which was...
Death, Suicide Rates among Inuit Kids Soar over Rest of Canada
by Helen Branswell, The Globe and Mail, Canada - “There’s no way to downplay the impact that suicide has on life here. And it’s a big priority of many people – including the [Nunavut] government and the Inuit organization NTI...
Boruca Mothers Find Solace in Soccer
by Sydney Boles, Tico Times, Costa Rica - A group of Boruca women were tired, bored and overworked. So they started a soccer team....
Historic Film Traces Guatemala’s Bloody Past
by Natasha Pizzey-Siegert, Tico Times, Guatemala - “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator” tells the story of Guatemala’s brutal 36-year internal war, which left 200,000 dead, and the subsequent quest for justice in a climate of ingrained impunity....
Peru's Great Transformation
by Stephanie Boyd, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Ollanta Humala's crackdown on anti-mining protesters has alienated many of those who voted for him....
Indonesia Is Wilting
by Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti, IPS, Italy - Unless the rapid deforestation in one of the world’s most richly-forested countries is controlled, Indonesians may one day wonder, "where are all the flowers gone." To those lyrics by legendary U.S. singer...
Beautiful Venezuela: Tourism with a Social Conscience
by Tamara Pearson, Venezuela Analysis, Venezuela - Its contextualised tourism aimed at fomenting community organisation, encouraging environmental and ecological awareness and appreciation, rescuing local culture and collective history, and promoting solidarity and knowledge exchange between countries and regions....
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe
by Madeline Ostrander, Yes!, USA - Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance....
Indigenous Peruvian Community Locked in Dispute with Oil Company
by Fawzia Sheikh, IPS, Italy - An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to...
Climate Change, the Arctic and the Colonial Imagination
by Krystalline Kraus, rabble.ca, Canada - There is a certain North American arrogance that our 'first world' privilege will buffer us from the effects of climate change, that ‘other' countries such as Bangladesh or small island nations such as the...
Why Native American Women Are Battling for Plan B
by Akiba Solomon, Colorlines, USA - Indigenous women aren’t covered by a policy that would ensure that they have adequate healthcare after a sexual assault. It is dangerous and unethical for a woman not to know what to expect when...
The Internet Indians
by Ilka Franzmann, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In the Brazilian Amazon, environmentalists, scientists and politicians are facing one of the most difficult challenges of our time. If the earth's lungs collapse, the planet itself will collapse....
Farmers Divided over 'Green Economy'
by Eva Weiler, InDepthNews, Canada - Representatives of farmers and rural producers from around the world feel far from comfortable with the ramifications of a "green economy" focus that they fear could turn ecosystem services and biodiversity into economic "goods"...
Santiago Xanica: A Zapotec Village's Fight for Autonomy in Mexico
by Emma Volonté, Upside Down World, Canada - In 1998, the state government of Oaxaca approved a law that allowed the communities to govern themselves by the “uses and customs” of their traditional indigenous system. Gerardo Froylán González Cruz explains...
Seeing the Forests for the Trees
by Fawziah Selamat, Inside Indonesia, Australia - Villages hope a regulation allowing them to manage forests will protect them from commercial interests....
Indigenous and Garífunas Fight Discrimination in Health Care System
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - Despite changes on paper, barriers to safe and culturally-appropriate health care remains elusive....
Adivasi Parliament
by Gayatri Parameswaran, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Tribal people are being pushed off their forest land because the government leases out forest areas for development projects. One of the major demands of the ‘adivasi parliament’ is access to forest land...
For Salvadoran Activist, It Is Necessary to Change the Development Paradigm
by Tatiana Félix, Upside Down World, Canada - Salvadoran activist Carolina Amaya says that the challenge of social movements is to deconstruct the false paradigm of development that triggered the economic and environmental crisis that puts the life of our...
Indigenous and Afro-Descendants grasp at Common Voice
by Carmen Herrera, Latin American Press, Peru - For the first time, leaders from indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples from throughout Central America met to form a common agenda....
Elouise Cobell's Accounting Coup
by Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, USA - A profile of the late Blackfeet woman who successfully sued the federal government for billions on behalf of ripped-off Native Americans....
When Humanitarian Law Is Just Rhetoric
by Constanza Vieira, IPS, Italy - The constant violations of international humanitarian law in Colombia claimed the life of an 11-year-old indigenous girl a month ago in the mountains of the southwest province of Cauca....
Evading Indigenous Consultation in Bolivia
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Indigenous groups from the lowlands of Bolivia have been marching since August 15, 2011 to protest the construction of a highway through protected territories. Over 1,500 protesters have joined the 375-mile trek from...
Humala Wrestles With Inclusive Economic Growth
by Cecilia Remón, Latin America Press, Peru - New president starts with lofty task ensuring benefits of a growing economy improves lives of all Peruvians....
Guatemala: Indigenous Women in Presidential Race
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - Still, many indigenous activists point out that most parties continue to pay lip service to inclusion....
Guatemala: Ex-army Chief Charged with Genocide
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - During the short-lived 1982-83 dictatorship of Efraín Ríos Montt, the army launched a brutal campaign to persecute the remaining guerrilla groups in the highlands, together with the indigenous communities that they claimed...
Indigenous Resistance is the New 'Terrorism'
by Manuela Picq, Al Jazeera, Qatar - In Ecuador, protesting for the rights of the Earth and trying to preserve natural resources may make you a "terrorist"....
Chile: HidroAysén Dam Project Dividing Communities
by Susana Segovia, Tierramérica, Italy - In the heart of the southern Patagonia region, in the valleys of the Ñadis River, 45 kilometers south of the town of Cochrane, live 14 families who will have to be relocated because the...
Guatemala Indigenous Victims Still Await Compensation
by Louisa Reynolds, Latin America Press, Peru - Symbolic actions taken by the government, such as public admissions that the State applied genocidal policies against the country’s Mayan communities, are not enough....
Ecuadorian Court Rules Against Chevron in Historic Case
by Sofía Jarrín, Upside Down World, Canada - The residents of Sucumbios spent the last 18 years seeking justice for the environmental damages suffered in their territories by Texaco’s oil exploration. These are mostly indigenous people who before the oil...
Environmentalism of the Poor: What Democracy Is Teaching Us
by Sunita Narain, Triple Crisis, India - The fact is today development projects take local resources—minerals, water or land—but cannot provide employment to replace the livelihoods of all those they displace....
Livelihoods under Threat: Malindi's Fishermen
by Zahra Moloo, Pambazuka, Kenya - Along Mombasa's coastline, fisherman are increasingly having to compete with the expanding hotel industry for access to scarce land along the sea. As more and more hotels take over these areas, the fishermen fear...
'Niyamgiri You Are Still Alive’
by Suma Joson, Counter Currents, India - In 2006 Sterlite, a subsidiary of UK mining company Vedanta built a refinery in Niyamgiri Hills, Orissa, India. The toxic waste material from the refinery pollutes air, ground and water....
My Journey into Kivalina v. ExxonMobil et al.
by Christine Shearer, Climate Storytellers, USA - In 2008, a small Inupiat village in Alaska sued ExxonMobil and 23 other fossil fuel companies including Peabody Energy and BP for contributing to the destruction of their homeland, and charged a smaller...
Climate Science Reaching Out for Traditional Farmers' Wisdom
by Daniela Estrada, Inter Press Service, Italy - The wide-ranging knowledge about climate variation possessed by native people and other small farmers, such as the people in one region of Colombia, is almost a perfect match to scientific measurements recorded...
Voices of Resistance and Hope from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change
by Silvia Ribeiro, Pambazuka News, Kenya - ‘We are confronting the terminal crisis of the model of patriarchal civilisation based on submission and destruction of human beings and nature that was accelerated with the industrial revolution.'...
Should Nature Have a Price?
by Ginger Strand, Orion, USA - Years of “regulate then litigate” have failed to halt ecological devastation; the Conservancy thinks it’s time to try a market-based approach: pay, don’t punish....
Najanamu-A Cry From Within
by Stephanie Kennedy, Sounds and Colors, UK - Culture in Venezuela is as fluid and as diverse as its ever-stretching landscape. There exists no single identity, but a series of explorations of heritage and modernity that have come to define...
Secularism, Bangali Hegemony and Our Constitution
by Hana Shams Ahmed, The Daily Star, Malaysia - The lack of an indigenous voice in the Bangladeshi Constitution must be reviewed....
Black Bolivians’ Voice in Music
by Sara Shahriari, Indian Country Today, USA - Living in pockets alongside, and increasingly mixing with, the Aymara and Quechua Indians who make up the majority of the country’s 10.5 million people is a small, often overlooked population. They are...
Battle to Save South Africa's 'Sacred Sites' from Tourist Chalets
by Pumza Fihlani, BBC, UK - The area's natural beauty means it is also a prime site to attract holiday-makers - and their money - to the impoverished region....
Malaysia: How to Protect the Rights of Indigenous Penan Women?
by Sandra Low, The Star Online, Malaysia - The Penan community in Sarawak has been under an uneasy spotlight since its women and girls’ claims of rape and sexual abuse emerged in 2008. The alleged accused are logging companies’ employees...
Brazil: More Than 200 Ways of Becoming a Mother
by Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS, Italy - "You can only have one mother," as the saying goes, but in Brazil there are 215 ways of becoming a mother, one for each of the ethnic groups in this South American country. Promoting...
Bolivia Climate Conference: Indigenous Peoples Design Roadmap to New World
by Brenda Norrell, Americas Program, Mexico - Indigenous Peoples from around the world, including Maori from New Zealand and Gwich’in from the far north in Alaska, came to the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother...
How an Amazonian Tribe Is Mastering the Modern World
by Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Spiegel, Germany - The Surui people from the Brazilian rainforest are fighting to stop the destruction of their homeland. But instead of bows and arrows, they are using the Internet, GPS and Google Earth....
Locals and Indigenous Groups Combat Big Real Estate in Greater Buenos Aires
by Francesca Fiorentini, Upside Down World, Canada - "The poor man has to disappear. There is no more countryside. It’s all private neighborhoods. All private neighborhoods."...
Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Continue Struggle for Land
by Sara Shahriari, Indian Country Today, USA - Land is a hot commodity in impoverished agrarian Bolivia, where much of the country’s 60 percent indigenous population lives by farming small parcels....
Chile Looks To Canada’s Example Regarding Indigenous Rights
by Mira Galanova, Santiago Times, Chile - With discontent among Chile’s indigenous population simmering for centuries, Chile is looking to Canada for a solution....
The Struggle for Indigenous and Freshwater Rights at Copenhagen and Beyond
by Aubrey Ann Parker, Circle of Blue, USA - Numerous groups, such as the Khapi community in Bolivia and the Tagalog in the Philippines, banded together in Copenhagen to explain at a number of meetings and public events how climate...
Making Amends with Native America: The Meaning of Resolution
by Michelle Chen, Race Wire, USA - Across the artificially imposed borders of this hemisphere, indigenous communities came together in April to demand that the Obama administration take on an American Declaration of indigenous people's rights....
Mr Chidambaram’s War
by Arundhati Roy, Outlook, India - The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa....
Tree Plantations Are Not Forests, Women Activists Say
by Marcela Valente, IPS, Italy - Touted as "harvested forests," single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the environment and the lives of local communities, rural women say....
CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison
by Daniela Estrada, IPS, Italy - "If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there," Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison in...
Video Disputed in Chevron Lawsuit
by Lucia Newman, Alfazeera, Qatar - A high-stakes legal battle between the world's second-largest oil company and the residents of Ecuador's Amazon region is heating up....
Ecuadorians Protest New Water Law
by Jennifer Moore, Upside Down World, Canada - “We're crazy for water,” chanted about a thousand campesinos as they marched through the streets of downtown Cuenca in southern Ecuador on Monday....
East Timor: Fresh Paint over the Scars of Violence
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2009's Hottest Destination (And That's When the Trouble Started)
by Kathy Marks, The Independent, UK - Lonely Planet's decision to bestow its ultimate accolade on Tasmania's Bay of Fires has angered Aborigines and tourism chiefs who fear a backpacker invasion...
Drums Project Gives Students New Beat
by Rosemary Stephens, Native American Times, USA - The drum has long been an intricate part of the Native American culture. For eight Native American students the drum is changing their lives....
Colombia: The Embera Struggle to Save a Sacred Mountain
by Kate Warburton, Upside Down World, Canada - For the Embera in Choco, a fight against a controversial mining project in the region isn't just a conflict about their legal ownership of the land. This project threatens to completely wipe...
Green Jobs for Navajo Youth
by Yvonne Liu, RaceWire, USA - The green jobs act establishes a Navajo Green Economy Commission and Fund, which can apply for federal and local funds to create green jobs for Navajo youth, as well as sponsor small-scale, green developments...
COLOMBIA: Killings of Indians Continued During UN Rapporteur's Visit
by Constanza Vieira, IPS, Italy - "Colombia’s indigenous people find themselves in a serious, critical and profoundly worrying human rights situation," says the preliminary report by United Nations special rapporteur James Anaya, who just completed a visit to this country....
PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
by Milagros Salazar, IPS/IFEJ, Italy - "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of...
Trade Agreement Kills Amazon Indians
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - The recent clash between indigenous peoples and Peruvian national police sends a powerful message from the Amazon jungle straight to Washington: The enormous social, political, and environmental costs of the free-trade...
PERU: ‘Police Are Throwing Bodies in the River,’ Say Native Protesters
by Milagros Salazar, IPS, Italy - There are conflicting reports on a violent incident in Peru’s Amazon jungle region in which both police officers and indigenous protesters were killed....
Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change
by Michelle Chen, Race Wire, USA - The Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change called for holistic solutions to global warming, democratic grassroots participation in environmental policy-making, and protection of social and cultural rights....
Indigenous Panamanians Defend Nature Against Speculators' Violent Onslaughts
by Talli Nauman, Americas Program, USA - For the small Naso indigenous community of Panama, the curtain of 2009 opened on a heart wrenching scene of conflict over the native people's longtime demand for respect of their territory and natural...
Social Housing in Bolivia: Challenges & Contradictions
by Emily P. Achtenberg, Andean Information Network, Bolivia - Meeting with our visiting group of US housing and neighborhood activists last summer, Rivera traced the social housing concept back to the ayllu, the traditional socio-political organization in Bolivia's rural indigenous...
Bolivia Sets New Global High Mark for Indigenous Rights
by Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, USA - A new constitution approved handily Sunday also risks dividing the nation....
The Rights of the Land
by Robin Kimmerer, Orion, USA - The Onondaga Nation of central New York proposes a radical new vision of property rights....
Freedom of Expression for Papuans
by Jennifer Robinson, Inside Indonesia, Indonesia - Papuans continue to be intimidated and arrested for expressing their political views and for taking part in peaceful protests....
The Dark Side of Brazil's Agribusiness Boom: Violence, Mutiny and Environmental Pillage in the Amazon
by Isabella Kenfield, Global Alternatives, USA - As Brazil's economy booms from rising agricultural commodity prices worldwide, conflicts over land in the Amazon-where the agricultural frontier is rapidly expanding-are also on the rise. At times, the region appears to be...
Maori Culture: Visibility Does not Equal Recognition
by Claire Gorman, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - The Maori make up about 15 per cent of the New Zealand population - a much larger percentage than many other indigenous populations around the globe. Many New Zealanders - non-Maori included -...
CHILE: Native Community in Desert Oasis Threatened by Mines
by Daniela Estrada, Inter Press Service, Italy - The Diaguita indigenous community in Huasco Alto, surrounded by rich gold, silver and copper deposits in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, are engaged in a struggle to prevent mining projects from...
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