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World News tagged with indigenous

Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 139 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
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Appalling Levels of Child Abuse Found in Aborigine Communities
World  (tags: world, Australia, Aboriginal, women, indigenous, people, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, rights, women, children, abuse, rape, violence, prime, minister, john, howard, politics, government, racism )

Tom
- 140 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Children in Australia's aboriginal communities are six times more likely to be abused or neglected than the country's non-indigenous children. Young girls are also routinely raped, often by packs of men, amidst an entrenched culture of silence.
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Sign Petition: Tell Peru to Protect Indigenous Rights & Save The Amazon
World  (tags: world, violence, amazon, rainforests, indigenous, peoples, protesters, ecology, environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, conservation, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, protection, government, corruption, oil, gas, money, business, corporate, greed )

Tom
- 166 days ago - change.org
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. Pres. Garcia responded with violence.
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Colombian Activist Waits in Prison Limbo
World  (tags: world, columbia, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, government, corruption, displaced, Afro-Colombians, land, cattle, lumber oil, supression, discrimination, indigenous, people )

Tom
- 235 days ago - latimes.com
Community organizer Carmelo Agamez, who was helping people with land claims, has spent five months in jail and still has not seen the evidence against him, been told who his accuser is or been notified of a trial date. Welcome to justice, Colombia style.
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Sign Petition: Freedom of Religion for Native American Inmates
World  (tags: Obama, government, politics, Indigenous, Native Americans, Indians, schools, prison, freedom, society, culture, humans, human rights, religion, suicide, children, trauma, apology, United States, genocide, government, crime, ethics, terrorism, abuse )

Tom
- 257 days ago - petitiononline.com
This Leonard Peltier Defense Committee petition targets the United Nations Council on Human Rights, requesting UN international oversight and further investigation of the serious ongoing human rights violations of Native Americans in American prisons.
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The Novelist and the Murderers
World  (tags: death squads, indigenous, guatemala )


- 510 days ago - thenation.com
<p>Efrain Bamaca--a guerrilla leader married to a Harvard-trained American lawyer--disappeared...a Guatemalan source says that Perez Molina had gone to pick up Bamaca.</p>
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Two Triqui Community Radio Reporters Assassinated
World  (tags: Oaxaca, Mexico, indigenous, gov't death squads )


- 591 days ago - narconews.com
The Triqui indigenous community of San Juan Copala, which declared autonomy on January 21, 2007, has suffered the bitter loss of two young women. Felicitas Martinez, age 20, and Teresa Bautista, age 24, were traveling in a rural part of Oaxaca state on ro
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BRAZIL: Land Shortage Provokes Murders of Indigenous People
World  (tags: indigenous, safety, land rights, violence, death, HumanRights )

Julia
- 677 days ago - ipsnews.net
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (IPS) - At least 76 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil in 2007, 58 percent more than in 2006. The killings increased the most in the west-central state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where the Guaraní­ people are confined
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Police Brutality in "Democratic" Chile - Mapuche Student Shot Dead; Political Prisoner Slowly Dying From Hunger Strike
World  (tags: Chile, police brutality, oppression, Indigenous, Mapuche )

Simon
- 679 days ago - mediaisland.org
A peaceful protest by the Indigenous Mapuche people met a bloody end on 3rd January when police opened fire into the crowd, killing 22-year-old university student Matias Catrileo Quezada. Mapuche Patricia Troncoso has been on hunger strike for 93 days.
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Urgent Action Needed!! After 61 Days of Hunger Strike: Chief Juana Calfunao and Her Sister Fight for Life in a Chilean Prison
World  (tags: Human Rights, women, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, freedoms, urgent action alert )

Julia
- 769 days ago - defendingwomen-defendingrights.org
After 61 days of Hunger strike: Chief Juana Calfunao and her sister fight for life in a Chilean prison 6th October 2007 On the 2nd October Chief Calfunao suffers heart attack according to latest reports. Please send letters now!
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The Government Intends to Dismantle Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
World  (tags: Zapatista, indigenous, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Mexico )


- 785 days ago - chiapas.mediosindependientes.org
In an offensive of a ferocity unprecedented in the last 9 years...the autonomous Zapatista communities are suffering a brutal attack on the part of the Mexican State through their agrarian institutions.
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Australian Government to Control Over 60 Northern Territiory Aboriginal Areas.
World  (tags: australia, child abuse, alcohol abuse, human rights, racism, aboriginal, indigenous, mabo )


- 887 days ago - au.news.yahoo.com
Alcohol and pornography will be banned in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory as part of unprecedented federal intervention aimed at stamping out widespread child abuse.
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