Reuters - 13/06/09 Niger’s top court on Friday annulled President Mamadou Tandja’s plans to hold a constitutional referendum aimed at extending his rule in the uranium-producing West...
Special Rapporteur on indigenous people urges Government of Peru to dialogue with indigenous peoples of the Amazon GENEVA -- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
By PCJSS (Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti) Kalyanpur, Rangamati-450000, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh URGENT ACTION Extra-Judicial Killing by the Military Forces at Shuvalong in...
Asian Human Rights Commission Press release June 24, 2009 Between 1975 and 1979 the Cambodian people suffered one of the world s most brutal regimes, the Khmer Rouge, which used, among things,...
GUYANA - Some areas in the Mabaruma Sub-Region in Region One (Barima/Waini) will be part of a pilot programme that will see the provision of solar electricity. According to a release...
GUYANA - Amerindian leaders were urged to examine the issue of good governance in their communities and to practise inclusiveness as it is vital to development. According to a Government...
Last pot money invested into higher education at Sámi Education Center/Samij Åhpadusguovdásj. The Board was unanimous in Monday. Sámi Education Center grant money...
On May 11 the National Swedish Saami Association will submit an application for summons to Gällivare District court. The summons concerns hunting- and fishing rights and the...
President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Anatolievich Medvediev Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Dear Dmitry Anatolievich! Dear Vladimir...
President of the Russian Federation Dmitri Anatolievich Medvediev Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Dear Dmitry Anatolievich! Dear Vladimir...
Community members have fought tirelessly against the Site 41 project for over fifteen years but it is scheduled to open this fall and construction or 'de-watering' of the site has begun. ...
Indigenous land rights conflict with Grassy Narrows Ontario cited Toronto - Today Calvert Investments removed Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) from the Calvert Social Index of sustainable and...
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s leftist government has granted political asylum to Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, wanted in Lima on charges he fomented protests against...
PRESS RELEASE NGABE COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THE CHAN 75 PROJECT We the Ngabe people from the communities affected by the CHAN 75 Project, make a call of attention to the government of...
Earth and her humanity need old forests to exist. And all enabling their destruction, including potential carbon markets paying for 'sustainable forest management' in primary forests, are legitimate...
June 2009 An NZAID funded school that is a prototype for 80 others being rebuilt in the earthquake and tsunami affected provinces of Solomon Islands has received a citation in the World Architecture...