August, 2008
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Displaced village exposed to Uranium in Jadugoda, India
Pipes carrying uranium tailings in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, burst on the 16th of August, "spewing the village of Dungridih with radioactive waste," according to a recent report by Sanhati It's the latest in a series of uranium spills that have taken place over the last two years: Incident 1: December 2006 In [...]
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World Bank helps to destroy indigenous rights in Cambodia
Ethnicity and Local Governance Cambodia (ELGC), a research project that analyzes state-minority relations in Cambodia, has published a report on the World Bank's involvement and complicity in the destruction of Indigenous Peoples rights in Cambodia. Titled, "Money Now, Compliance Later: Worldbank-Support to Decentralization in Cambodia and Indigenous Peoples," the detailed report reveals a series of [...]
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Leaving Fear Behind: A Documentary by and about Tibetans
Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a documentary film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games. Completed on the eve of the Tibetan Uprising last March, the 24 minute film provides a much need space for the Tibetan People to share their views on [...]
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Judge upholds land rights in Raposa-Serra do Sol
The first of eleven Supreme Court Judges cast his vote in the landmark case that will decide the future of Raposa-Serra do Sol, a legally-recognized Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian state of Roraima. "Magistrate Carlos Ayres de Britto, the first and only judge to have voted so far, used the Portuguese word 'esbulho' (dispossession or [...]
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Venezuela Moves to Support the Yukpa
Following last weeks attack on Venezuela's Indigenous Yukpa community -- and the worrisome lack of support by the government to ensure their safety -- President Hugo Chavez pledged on Sunday to come to the aid of the Yukpa. "Nobody should have any doubts: Between the large estate owners and the indians, this government is with [...]
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Listing of Biological/Chemical Warfare Agents an ‘error’
While searching through the Treasury Board of Canada's 'Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory' database last week, pollution researcher John H.W. Hummel came up on a 'shocking' discovery: a listing that says "biological/chemical warfare agents" were found within the Campbell River First Nation's Traditional Territory in British Columbia. Searching further, Hummel discovered eleven more sites across Canada [...]
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Venezuala’s Yukpa attacked by armed “agressors”
The Yukpa, an indigenous community in the northwestern region of Venezuela, were attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. "According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite landowners to evict the indigenous population from the vast, largely idle pastures in the region known as the Sierra de Perijá near Venezuela's northwestern border [...]
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