Buscador: Pobles indígenes

31/08/2005 Alaskan Natives are staging a six-week vigil in Washington to protest the U.S. Congress' ninth attempt to pass legislation allowing for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The indigenous groups say if the legislation passes, their culture and the refuge's natural wildlife will face extinction.

30/08/2005 The Botswana government's attorney has dismissed foreign financial support for the Bushmen - with whom the administration is locked in a land dispute - as "Europeans telling us what to do and what not to do...but we really don't care, and we resent their involvement in our affairs."

30/08/2005 The government of Guatemala charges radio stations $28,000 for bandwidth, an inordinate sum for community radio stations that are operated by volunteers and typically have a two-to-five mile broadcast range. Consequently, bandwidth is rapidly being bought up by commercial radio stations that broadcast only in Spanish and do not address themes of concern to the Maya population. The remaining bandwidth is often usurped by wealthy evangelical interest groups.

30/08/2005 Cari amici e amiche del MST, il tema della corruzione che coinvolge l'attuale governo e alcuni partiti politici che lo sostengono, si è impossessato dei notiziari. I media non si occupano d'altro, come se la "corruzione statale" fosse un'invenzione del governo petista. La colpa di questo governo è proprio quella di aver dato continuità a questa pratica borghese di fare politica. Ci sono parlamentari che hanno scoperto che alcune Commissioni Parlamentari di Inchiesta (CPI) danno loro spazio sufficiente nei media per lusingare le loro vanità personali e lanciare fin da ora le loro campagne politiche in vista delle elezioni del 2006. - della Segreteria nazionale del Movimento Sem Terra

29/08/2005 Nepal's indigenous people, or Janajatis, are demanding King Gyanendra address societal imbalances and reinstate a year-old law reserving ten percent of government seats for indigenous peoples.

26/08/2005 KAHNAWAKE - le 23 aout 2005 -La violence contre les femmes ainsi que d'autres problèmes de droits de la personne affectant les peuples autochtones des Amériques seront au cœur d'une réunion internationale inédite regroupant cette semaine à Kahnawake plusieurs dirigeantes autochtones.

24/08/2005 While the rates of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean are not the world's highest, a worrying disparity within a small group of countries and especially among indigenous groups and afro-descendants exist, reveals a U.N. assessment of the region's progress in meeting the MDGs.

24/08/2005 A massive government campaign that has forced the Gana and Gwi of Botswana from their ancestral lands is ongoing and only international support can save them, says Survival International, and asks you to join the fight for the Bushmen’s survival.

23/08/2005 Ampam Karakras is a man on a mission. A Shuar from the Ecuadorian Amazon, he recalls the days when the Shuar (or Jivaro as they were then known to Westerners) were famed for their secret technique of shrinking human heads. As a youth, he was sent to boarding schools run by Salesian Catholic priests where he learned Spanish and was educated in Western ways. But unlike indigenous boarding school experiences in other parts of the world, Ampam’s years among the Salesians strengthened his appreciation both for the value of education and for the Shuar people and their culture.

23/08/2005 American Indian activists applauded a new policy that bans colleges and universities who display "offensive or hostile" racial/ethnic mascots from hosting championship sports events. College athletic programs have long appropriated Indian names, rituals and practices, which "ridicule and denigrate" the contemporary Indian community, said the activists.

22/08/2005 Nëpërmes një deklarate, Këshilli për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave dhe Lirive të Njeriut - KMDLNJ ka përshëndetur iniciativën dhe përpjekjet të institucioneve qeveritare të Kosovës si dhe të institucioneve ndërkombëtare në Kosovë për zgjidhjen e problemit të banorëve të Kampit të Plemetinit, si dhe ka ofruar gatishmërinë e vet për të ndihmuar në çdo aspekt për të mirën e këtyre banorëve.

22/08/2005 At the 2005 commencement ceremony held at UBC, all the indigenous students receiving degrees refused to shake hands with UBC's Chancellor. They refused because of his use of a quote from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan", in reference to the case known as "Delgamuuk", saying that before the "civilizing mission" from Europe entered the Americas, "aboriginal" peoples' lives were "nasty, short, and brutish."

22/08/2005 PLACHIMADA, India, Aug 21 (IPS) - In the end it was the ''generosity'' of Coca-Cola in distributing cadmium-laden waste sludge as ''free fertilizer'' to the tribal aborigines who live near the beverage giant's bottling plant in this remote Kerala village that proved to be its undoing.

19/08/2005 Many male Miskito of Nicaragua and Honduras are permanently disabled from diving for lobsters at great depths and having no protective gear provided them. The Miskito however are only one of the many indigenous populations affected by health and human rights problems in Latin America, says Rocio Rojas.

14/08/2005 The Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism plans to launch a campaign against the "Genographic Project"--a study of the DNA of indigenous people to map the origin and migration of humans--due to concerns that the findings may contradict indigenous oral tradition or be at risk for unauthorized secondary use.

11/08/2005 El subcomandante Marcos, vocero del EZLN, criticó una vez más el miércoles al Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD, izquierda), el cual, dijo, está en manos de un grupo de "bribones y sinvergüenzas" cercanos al ex alcalde mexicano y aspirante presidencial, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

11/08/2005 Ward Churchill, Indigenous rights activist, traces the current U.S. aggression overseas back in history showing that the country's ability to project power and violence outward is directly dependent upon the repression and dispossession of Indigenous peoples within its claimed borders. The lecture and question period can be downloaded as a podcast.

10/08/2005 NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (IPS) - While corporate India eagerly counts foreign direct investment in mining projects, tribal peoples sitting on some of the world's richest deposits of iron ore, bauxite and copper in eastern Orissa state are watching, with trepidation, the sudden burst of alien activity on their ancient lands.

10/08/2005 O Dia Internacional dos Povos Indígenas foi comemorado em Pernambuco com uma audiência pública no Ministério Público Estadual e sessão do grande expediente na Assembléia Legislativa de Pernambuco. O objetivo principal dos eventos é chamar atenção da sociedade para as violações dos direitos indígenas como a criminalização de lideranças, dificuldade na homologação das terras tradicionais e descumprimento das leis que garantem uma educação indígena diferenciada.

10/08/2005 En dépit de certains progrès réalisés au cours des dix dernières années, les peuples autochtones du monde entier continuent de vivre dans l’adversité et le danger, en raison de l’incapacité des États à défendre leurs droits fondamentaux.