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A New Day for Indigenous Rights in Kenya
As the United States considers its support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Australia moves toward amending its constitution in favour of Indigenous Rights, the people of Kenya took their own step forward this month took, akin to the patient but sturdy march we saw in 2009 with the [...]
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Help Stop a Man-Made Disaster in Ethiopia
The Gibe 3 Hydro Dam threatens to destroy the livelihoods of 500,000 Indigenous People. A group of international NGOs have launched a campaign to stop a disaster-in-the-making: the Gibe 3 Hydro Dam on Ethiopia's Omo River. The "fatally flawed" project threatens to destroy the food security and economies of roughly 500,000 Indigenous People in Southern [...]
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Reviving Our Culture, Mapping Our Future
A special gathering of indigenous leaders from South Africa, the Colombian Amazon, and the Russian Republic of Altai; and the story of how the vhaVenda People learned to create an eco-cultural map of their sacred sites and territory. In November 2009, the vhaVenda People welcomed a group of Indigenous Leaders to their territory in northeastern [...]
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Landmark Decision for Indigenous Land Rights in Africa
In a landmark decision this month, the African Union endorsed a 2009 ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights which ordered the Kenyan government to restore the traditional land base of the Endorois People. In May 2009, the Pan-African Commission found the government was guilty of violating the Endorois' rights to property, [...]
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A Thousand Suns
This is the trailer for the film A Thousand Suns by the Global Oneness Project. You can watch the full film at www.imdb.com A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably [...]
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End of the Rainbow
"END OF THE RAINBOW" is an in-depth look at the consequences and so-called benefits of mining on local populations, their traditions, their economy, and their environment. The film focuses one particular gold mine in Guinea, West Africa, exploring the hopes and problems that the villagers face, revealing, perhaps unwittingly, the commonplace reality of modern development. [...]
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Maasai evicted and imprisoned for hunting concession
The Hadzabe community of Yaeda China valley, Tanzania, aren't the only ones facing eviction and starvation so the commercial sport hunting industry can make a name for itself. According to Survival International, eight Maasai villages were burnt to the ground last month---leaving 3,000 people without any food, shelter, or water. "On 4 July, heavily armed [...]
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