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The latest news and articles on Intercontinental Cry. For a more complete picture of what's happening to Indigenous Peoples today, have a look at IC's monthly news round-up, Underreported Struggles.

Main Topics: Land Rights, Mining, Canadian Mining Companies, Toxins, Energy, Food, Cultural Preservation.

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UN Challenge

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Aborigines request United Nations peacekeepers to protect them against aggression by the Australian Government.

Upcoming conference to call attention to Indigenous Peoples in Caucasian-Caspian region

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On May 8, the organizing committee of the “Indigenous Peoples of Caucasian-Caspian region” conference gathered in Nagorno-Karabakh to discuss the details of the upcoming conference (5-7 October, 2012) in...

A toxic cocktail runs through it

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The Portland Harbor Superfund Site feasibility study released last by the Lower Willamette Group (LWG) proposes a range of clean-up options by the parties responsible for the contamination...

Climate change and the corporate scramble for the Arctic

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This is the second of a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Part I examined the uses of the colonial imagination of the Arctic. ...

San Tribesmen & Women In Botswana Illegally Arrested By Government Security Forces

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Location: Central Kalahari Game Reserve, CKGR, Ghanzi, BotswanaOn December 13th, 2006 a verdict was issued in the 'Central Kalahari Game Reserve Legal Case' in which the High Court of...

Urgent Action Needed to Protect Ancient Marpole Village and Burial Site from Destruction

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Musqueam Nation is calling on the British Colombia Government to protect the burials of Musqueam ancestors at the once great Musqueam village known as C?sna??m (commonly known as the...

Urge Development Banks To Walk Away From Barro Blanco Dam

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Indigenous Peoples and conservationists are asking three public development banks to divest from and deny any future financial assistance for the contested Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam on the Tabasara...

Climate change, the Arctic and the colonial imagination

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This is the first in a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Next week, Part II will look at the harmful impacts of climate...

Hold Sherritt Accountable For Human And Environmental Impacts in Madagascar!

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The Paris-based Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands ("Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches" or TANY) is asking the international community to send an urgent message to...

Save Rivers network condemns use of ‘cleansing’ ritual at proposed Hydro Dam

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The Borneo-based SAVE Rivers Network has condemned the use of a cleansing ritual at the proposed Baram Dam site in Sarawak.  The Kayan-Kenyah customary practice known as  ‘Mayau Dalleh’ is...

Cultural Conflict

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As illustrated by this Indian Country Today article about the Winnemem Wintu, the war between the United States of America and the Indigenous nations that underlay its boundaries is...

Celilo

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As tribes of the lower Columbia River work to restore fisheries destroyed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1957, they recall that the flooded village of Celilo...

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