News and Views: Indigenous Peoples
- Opening two-week session, UN indigenous forum tackles land, resource issues (UN News)
- African nomads to be first wiped out by climate change (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Teach-in: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization (New York City, November 18)
- Indigenous Border Summit Opposes Border Wall and Militarization (Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program)
- PERU: Indigenous People, Ignored Even by the Statistics (Milagros Salazar, Inter Press Service)
- Painful legacy of Guatemala storm (Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News)
- GUATEMALA: Exhuming the Past In a Painful Quest (N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post)
- RIGHTS: Native People Demand Self-Determination (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- UN Human Rights Council adopts documents on disappearances and indigenous peoples (UN News)
- UN Forum on indigenous issues looks to new Human Rights Council (UN News)
- COLOMBIA: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US (Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service)
- UN launches Programme of Action for 2nd Decade for Indigenous Peoples (UN News)
- UN expert on rights of indigenous peoples to revisit Guatemala after four years (UN News)
- Indigenous Movements: Between Neoliberalism and Leftist Governments (Raúl Zibechi, IRC Americas Program)
- NYC Event (5/18): Guerrero Resistance: The Work of Carlos Efraín Pérez (National Museum of the American Indian)
- Women's Rights and Development (Society for International Development)
- PERU: Rights of Isolated Indigenous Communities Violated by Amazon Pipeline (Ángel Páez, Inter Press Service)
- Maasai-led Grassroots Education Efforts Prove Essential to Referendum Defeat (Michael Ole Tiampati, Weekly Indigenous News)
- Morales's rise inspires Andean groups (Lucien Chauvin, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Indigenous Leaders Celebrate Morales Victory (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- The Threat of Hope in Latin America (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
- Indigenous Peoples Particularly Vulnerable to Disasters (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- UN marks indigenous people’s day with call for action against discrimination (UN News)
- 'War on Terror' Has Latin American Indigenous People in Its Sights (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service)
- Massacre in Colombian Peace Community (School of the Americas Watch)
- UN Opens Two-week Forum on Indigenous Issues to Consider Ways Forward (UN News)
- Death, Mayan Women and Free Trade (Professor Cindy Forster, Scripps College)
- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Indigenous Peoples Claim Their Own Space (Inter Press Service)