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23
May

Chago win right to return home, for the third time

In 1966, the British Government leased Diego Garcia and the Chagossian Islands to the US Government, for a strategic military base. But the US government wanted a land free of people, and so in that same year until 1973, the British government secretly and systematically removed the entire population, some 2000 people off the islands. Most ended up in the slums of Mauritius, to a life of abject poverty.

In 2000 a UK court overturned the 1971 immigration order banning the people from their traditional lands, and decided that the exiles, now numbering 4,500, have a right to return to the archipelago. (read about the 2000 case)

In 2004, allegations were made that Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was being used as a secret detention centre by the US. Shortly after, the British Government announced that the …

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May 23, 2007
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17
May

Statement on the Nakba and Right of Return

From the WW4Report - From the Zochrot (Remembering), a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948:

International Nakba Day, May 15, 2007
The Nakba is the story of the Palestinian tragedy: the destruction of communities, civilization, culture and identity, the expulsion and the killing that took place in 1948. It is a story that constitutes the past and present of the Palestinian people and shapes a large part of Palestinian identity. Yet in many respects the Nakba is also the story of Jews who live in Israel. A story that is not easy to cope with, a story that raises difficult questions about the possibilities of life together in the space that is today the state of Israel.

It is almost impossible to speak about the Nakba without speaking about taking responsibility and repairing the historical injustice that was committed against the …

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May 17, 2007
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17
May

A World Glance at Internal Displacement

From IDMC - Some 25 million people worldwide currently live in situations of internal displacement as a result of conflicts or human rights violations. They were forced to flee their homes because their lives were at danger, but unlike refugees they did not cross international borders. Although internally displaced people now outnumber refugees by two to one, their plight receives far less international attention.

Many IDPs remain exposed to violence and other human rights violations during their displacement. Often they have no or only very limited access to food, employment, education and health care. Large numbers of IDPs are caught in desperate situations amidst fighting or in remote and inaccessible areas cut-off from international assistance. Others have been forced to live away from their homes for many years, or even decades, because the conflicts that caused their displacement remained unresolved.

From …

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May 17, 2007
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26
Mar

Against the Demolition of Losheng Sanatorium in Taiwan

Against the Demolition of Losheng Sanatorium in Taiwan!
from www.infoshop.org
March 22, 2007

This is Em from Taiwan, I am recently working on a campaign to help out the leprosy patients in Taiwan.

As such a subject that never gets anybody’s attention. I am asking the anarchist/activist/punks worldwide to help!! (The reason i am passing this here is becuase the government and the media here in taiwan is trying to shut us down, this is emergent, so please, we all really appreciated for any help!)

Because of the Police brutality in the recent protest, and their bulletin about entering the place in 2 weeks we are in urge for help from worldwide, who cares about social changes and thinking politically/anarchy - Leprosy patients had been treated injustice since the 19th century, and nowadays they still face different struggle, hence, we can no longer ignore this human rights violation in taiwan. Please read the flyer …

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March 26, 2007
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03
Mar

Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Spreads Misinformation About Mining Conflict

Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala Spreads Misinformation About Mining Conflict
Written by Rights Action
Wednesday, 28 February 2007

A Public Letter To:

Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, MacKay.P@parl.gc.ca

James Lambert, Director General, Latin America and Caribbean Bureau, DFAIT, james.lambert@international.gc.ca

Kenneth Cook, Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala, kenneth.cook@international.gc.ca

RE: Canadian ambassador to Guatemala spreads misinformation about film documenting indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ communities forcibly evicted on behalf of nickel mining company Skye Resources

Dear Sirs,

We, the undersigned, write with deep concern over the recent conduct of Canadian ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook. Ambassador Cook has been misinforming people about the work of Canadian doctoral student Steven Schnoor, who has been in Central America for several months conducting CIDA-funded research, in collaboration with Rights Action and various Guatemalan organizations and communities. The ambassador’s allegations also prejudice public perception of the territorial claims of indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ communities affected by Canadian mining company Skye Resources.

Multiple sources, including Guatemalan …

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March 3, 2007
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11
Sep

BOTSWANA: evection of bushmen unlawful and unconstitutional

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
5 September 2006

Botswana’s high court began hearing the Bushmen’s lawyer present his final arguments yesterday. Lawyer Gordon Bennett argued that the eviction of the Bushmen was unlawful, unconstitutional and was done without their consent.

Bennett pointed out that the state had not brought even one of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen to court to testify that they agreed with their relocation from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This, he said, was a ‘telling omission’.

He also pointed to documents showing that in 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001, the Bushmen living in the reserve said they did not want to move. The government’s lawyers had produced no evidence to suggest that the Bushmen had changed their minds by the time of the evictions in early 2002. Bennett argued that they moved because they were ‘placed under intolerable pressure by the government to leave the reserve.’

Bennett noted that the …

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September 11, 2006
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Video activism and the Chiapas Media Project

In the following presentation, Claudia Magallanes-Blanco from the University of Western Sydney talks about the role of video activism as a world-wide tool for empowerment and the Chiapas Media Project, a collaborative effort based in Mexico that provides indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas and peasants in Guerrero with training and equipment to produce their own videos.

Since forming in 1998, CMP has distributed over 6000 videos, including: Zapata’s Garden, a film that looks at the society the Zapatista’s are building; …


I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

Known as ‘Soy defensor de la selva’ in Spanish, I am a Defender of the Rainforest is an award-winning documentary that was filmed, edited, and directed by members of the Sarayaku community in southern Ecuador.

The film shows how the …


Underreported Struggles #19, October 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories …


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