Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – Canada’s endorsement of the global treaty outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous peoples has been welcomed by the head of a United Nations body dealing with the issue. Carlos Mamani, Chair of the UN Permanent [...]
BRAZIL: Battle Between Jungle and Livestock in the Amazon
November 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIO BRANCO, Brazil, Nov 5, 2010 (IPS) – "Put yourself in God’s hands," his mother told him just before she died. Only later did he understand that as she was dying of kidney failure, she was urging him to continue her work as a Catholic [...]
Group Says Botswana Bushmen Evicted over Diamonds
November 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Peter Boaz WASHINGTON, Nov 4, 2010 (IPS) – An international boycott of Botswana diamonds aims to draw greater attention to the government’s mistreatment of native Kalahari Bushmen. The rights group Survival International launched the boycott in San Francisco and London Tuesday with a protest outside the diamond [...]
MEXICO: Native Tourism Businesses Need to Sell Themselves Better
October 28, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Oct 27, 2010 (IPS) – Native tourism companies dedicated to the preservation and promotion of indigenous culture and to sustainable development face a number of hurdles, especially in terms of marketing and commercialising their services. "We have perfected the design of regional tourism [...]
CHINA: As Tourists Come, Culture Goes
October 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley JIAJU, China, Oct 27, 2010 (IPS) – In 2005, the ‘National Geographic China’ magazine named this ethnic Tibetan village in western Sichuan province, sprawled over a valley wall amid snow-capped mountains, China’s most beautiful. Depending on how you look at it, that distinction was either [...]
VENEZUELA: Hunger Strike Off as Gov’t Agrees to Talks on Native Demands
October 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – An 81-year-old Jesuit missionary in Venezuela ended a week-long hunger strike Monday after the government agreed to high-level talks to negotiate the release of three indigenous prisoners facing murder charges and to discuss land claims by Yukpa communities. José [...]
CHILE: Documentary Reveals Injustices Endured by Mapuches – and Filmmaker
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – Finally, her documentary film about the indigenous Mapuche people has reached theatres in Chile and in other countries. Elena Varela was in the midst of making the film when she was imprisoned on charges for which she has now [...]
AUSTRALIA: Campaign Continues for Parliamentary Seats for Aborigines
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 25, 2010 (IPS) – Ken Wyatt stood, draped in a traditional kangaroo-skin shroud. In a voice wavering at times with emotion, the only indigenous Australian ever elected to this nation’s lower house of Parliament presented his inaugural address. Referring to the [...]
Millennium Goals Far Off for Mexico’s Indigenous Population
October 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Oct 19, 2010 (IPS) – It is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of anti-poverty targets adopted by the international community, will be met for Mexico’s indigenous people, a new United Nations report says. "Poverty has been reduced, but the [...]
MEXICO: Four Years On, No Justice for Atenco Women
October 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Oct 16, 2010 (IPS) – At 30, Mexican activist América del Valle knows loneliness all too well: she spent four years in hiding, out of contact with friends and family, her only goal being to "endure" the government’s persecution of her family. "Exile [...]
