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A group of Ayoreo Indians has angrily condemned the landowners who are logging their territory illegally. Senior government officials have travelled to the Ayoreo’s villages to investigate.

The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode’s territory was recently included in the Chaco Biosphere Reserve in an attempt to protect it from the private landowners who are determined to log the area of all its valuable hardwoods.

The forest is protected by injunctions which make any activity on it illegal, but these injunctions have been repeatedly flouted.

The area is home to an unknown number of uncontacted Ayoreo families, whose forest home is being encroached upon from all sides. Amongst …

The Indian Council of South America to the new UN Human Rights Council hopes that the change serves to better defend those rights as well as social and historic justice for all peoples.

That is what CISA hopes, because attempts are being made to invalidate the process launched by the representatives of the invaded peoples of the Americas and Oceania who did not benefit from the decolonisation that took place on other continents. In 1977, those representatives sought to have the United Nations recognize them as peoples and original nations with a right to self-determination, to land, territory, natural resources and …

I’ve been wondering about this for quite some time now, but never took the time to seriously look at the various international courts, their roles, whether or not people can submit cases to them, etc.

Since Carver brought it up recently, I thought we should open it up for discussion

International Criminal Court
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, as defined by several international agreements, most prominently the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The ICC is designed to …

From the Manitoba Wildlands newsletter:
Conflicts continue to erupt in Ontario’s northern boreal region as companies hunt for platinum, palladium and diamonds in the absence of conservation planning.

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (formerly known as Big Trout Lake First Nation) is now being sued by Platinex Inc. for $10 billion.
Platinex is also seeking a legal injunction that would enable them to drill for platinum against the wishes of the community.

Diamond giant De Beers recently devastated the annual spring goose hunt of Muskrat Dam First Nation. Both communities have called for a halt to mining and forestry on their traditional lands but extractive industries …

ABORIGINAL protesters will refuse to leave the Kings Domain at midnight tonight unless the State Government meets their demands.

The so-called sacred fire and Camp Sovereignty have attracted controversy since they were established during the Commonwealth Games.

The Supreme Court ordered the camp to be dissolved last month, but an indigenous heritage inspector put a 30-day emergency protection order over the fire, which is next to a burial site in the park.

Campaigner Gary Murray said the group wanted better security for the burial site. “The site has been desecrated,” he said yesterday. “There were five huge eucalypt totem poles. Where are they …

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 at the National Press Club in the city yesterday jointly organised by Bangladesh Adivashi Odikhar Andolan, Bangladesh Adivashi Forum, Adivashi Jagoron Samity and Andar Manik Bhumihin Samobaya Samity.

Referring to recent land grabbing and attacks in Kaliakoire in Gazipur, Parbotipur in Dinajpur, Moulvibazar and Chittagong Hill Tracts area, the …

Native Group Takes Land Dispute to UN, by Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) - Feeling cheated and betrayed by Washington for nearly 150 years, a Native American tribe is now looking to the United Nations for help in protecting its ancestral lands.

“Where else do we go?” Carrie Dann, a leader of the Shoshone people of the United States, told IPS in an interview about why her people have gone to the U.N. to demand justice.

Dann and other Shoshone leaders maintain that the U.S. government has used a series of illegal tactics to gain control of their ancestral lands, including …