March, 2006

• India: Stop grabbing of land of indigenous people

  

  March 30, 2006  1,129 views 0 Comments Share

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  The Daily Star, Staff Correspondent Indigenous leaders yesterday urged the government to stop illegal grabbing of their land across the country and to recognise their traditional land rights. They also demanded introduction of permanent settlement system of indigenous land where permanent ownership has not been established yet. They placed these demands at a press conference [...]

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• Indigenous movement proposes to assume its own power

  

  March 24, 2006  1,166 views 0 Comments Share

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  QUITO, March 24 (PL).—Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement. Santiago de la Cruz, vice president of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), emphasized last [...]

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• Canada in Contempt of International Law at Six Nations

  

  March 21, 2006  1,070 views 0 Comments Share

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  MNN. March 20, 2006. Canada gives international law the finger. “Screw you”, says Canada. Ontario Superior Court Judge David Marshall, said, “I know you poor people have been victimized for so long. I understand how you feel”, he cooed in a patronizing tone. Marshall said the last thing he wanted to do was to send [...]

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• How the U.S. lost to the Western Shoshone at the U.N.

  

  March 17, 2006  1,094 views 0 Comments Share

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  MNN. March 16, 2006. On March 10, 2006, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found that the United States was denying the Western Shoshone people “their rights to own, develop, control and use their land and resources”. They warned the U.S. to respect their obligations according to the Convention”. The U. [...]

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• The Alien Tort Claims Act

  

  March 14, 2006  2,414 views 0 Comments Share

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  A New Spin on Fighting for Justice Published by Alternet, 3/10/06 http://www.alternet.org/story/32861/ By Kelly Hearn Nigeria, 1999: Government soldiers, riding in helicopters owned by Chevron Corp., fire on villages opposed to oil operations. Colombia, 1998: The Colombian Air Force, acting in the interest of U.S.-based Occidental Oil, drops a cluster bomb on the village of [...]

  Filed Under America • colonialism • ICC • Indigenous Peoples

• Survival: Commonwealth must respect International Law

  

  March 13, 2006  1,176 views 0 Comments Share

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  This Commonwealth Day (13 March) Survival International is calling for Commonwealth countries to put the genocide of tribal peoples behind them by signing up to international law. Only two Commonwealth countries - Fiji and Dominica - have ratified the key international law protecting tribal peoples' rights, International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention 169. Many Commonwealth countries [...]

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• Indigenism, by James Herod

  

  March 2, 2006  1,200 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following is a Supplementary essay to Getting Free, by James Herod. Summer, 2001. It was originally posted here © Copyright 2002 by James Herod and placed in the public domain. Please reproduce freely. This is actually the same issue as the nationalities question and the identity question, but it might be worthwhile to treat [...]

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