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			<title>NE India: NHRC asks Meghalaya to file report on child labour in mines</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/NE-India-NHRC-asks-Meghalaya-to-file-report-on-child-labour-in-mines.html</link>
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Tezang Chakma: The National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) which took sou moto cognizance of a media report alleging that about 70,000 children from Nepal, Bangladesh, Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand are working in the private coal mines in Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya has asked the state govern...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:35:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>A Goal for Biodiversity during the 2010 FIFA World Cup</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Biological-Diversity/A-Goal-for-Biodiversity-during-the-2010-FIFA-World-Cup.html</link>
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Montreal, 31 August 2010 &ndash; With the support of the Global Environment Facility, the messages of the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) were brought to an audience estimated at over 600,000 spectators watching live matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on giant screens in South Africa.

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			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>World [English] - Biological Diversity</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:26:56 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>E mau Ke Ea September 2010- Malama Haloa 3 featuring Uncle Jerry Konanui</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Biological-Diversity/E-mau-Ke-Ea-September-2010-Malama-Haloa-3-featuring-Uncle-Jerry-Konanui.html</link>
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E mau Ke Ea September 2010- Malama Haloa 3 (http://vimeo.com/14563206) from Malia N (http://vimeo.com/user2916100) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com).


The September 2010 E Mau Ke Ea show features the Malama Haloa Event
sponsored by Ka Papa Loi o Kanewai at the University of Hawaii at
Manoa. In t...]]></description>
			<author>Malia</author>
			<category>Pacific [English] - Biological Diversity</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:20:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Indonesia: World Bank palm oil strategy is reckless, say NGOs</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/Indonesia-World-Bank-palm-oil-strategy-is-reckless-say-NGOs.html</link>
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Frankfurt, Monday, 30th August. In advance of a major international meeting about World Bank investments in palm oil, a consortium of indigenous peoples&rsquo;, oil palm smallholders&rsquo;, and non-governmental organisations is demanding the World Bank maintains its current freeze on funding the ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:27:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Indonesia/Malaysia: FPP- Palm oil and indigenous peoples in South East Asia</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/Indonesia/Malaysia-FPP-Palm-oil-and-indigenous-peoples-in-South-East-Asia.html</link>
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Introduction: Crude palm oil (CPO) is a highly valued product that is traded on the international commodities and futures markets. Processed palm oil is used in a huge variety of products in cosmetics, foods, lubricants and also fuels, and overall consumption more than doubled between 2000 and 201...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:25:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Indian: Government Rejection Of Vedanta Bauxite Mine A 'Landmark Victory' For Indigenous Rights</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/Indian-Government-Rejection-Of-Vedanta-Bauxite-Mine-A-Landmark-Victory-For-Indigenous-Rights.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
25 August 2010: Amnesty International today described the Indian government&rsquo;s decision to reject the bauxite mine project in Orissa&rsquo;s Niyamgiri Hills as a landmark victory for the human rights of Indigenous communities.


India&rsquo;s Ministry of Environment and Forests rejected th...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:35:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>China-Taiwan: Recognizing the Pingpu</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Self-Determination/China-Taiwan-Recognizing-the-Pingpu.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
13 August 2010: In 1994, the UN General Assembly approved Aug. 9 as International Day of the World&rsquo;s Indigenous Peoples. That date was chosen to commemorate the day in 1982 when the UN&rsquo;s European Headquarters in Geneva held its first conference on indigenous peoples&rsquo; rights, the ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Self-Determination</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:27:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Malaysia: Conference on UNDRIP implementation and challenges</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Education/Malaysia-Conference-on-UNDRIP-implementation-and-challenges.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Organised by The Centre For Malaysian Indigenous Studies (CMIS), and Centre For Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law, Faculty of Law, UM (CLPIL), Date: 9-10 November 2010 Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Malaya About the ConferenceThe adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Ind...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Education</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:08:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Korea: President of the Republic of Korea receives CBD Award for his contribution to biodiversity co</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Biological-Diversity/Korea-President-of-the-Republic-of-Korea-receives-CBD-Award-for-his-contribution-to-biodiversity-co.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Seoul, 24 August 2010 &ndash; In recognition of his unique contribution to the preservation of life on Earth, Mr. Lee Myung-bak, the President of the Republic of Korea, was today presented with the CBD Award by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Biological Diversity</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:04:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NE India: Zo Indigenous Forum submitted Memorundum to the Governor of Mizoram</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Language/NE-India-Zo-Indigenous-Forum-submitted-Memorundum-to-the-Governor-of-Mizoram.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Subject: Submission for the interest of the Zo Indigenous people, Your excelleny Sir, Greetings on behalf of Zo Indigenous Forum. Thank you for giving us your valuable time to have a meeting with us. Indigenous peoples number about 300 million, representing over 5,000 languages. They live in more th...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Language</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:02:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Global Indigenous Youth Caucus Makes First Statement at Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Gender/Global-Indigenous-Youth-Caucus-Makes-First-Statement-at-Expert-Mechanism-on-the-Rights-of-Indigenous.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Linda Zhang, GENEVA&mdash;Twelve representatives from the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (IYC) made their first official presence at the 3rd session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva this past July. Collectively, the group made three statements before the Exp...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>World [English] - Gender</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:25:45 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Malaysia: Suhakam initiates inquiry on indigenous land rights</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Human-Rights/Malaysia-Suhakam-initiates-inquiry-on-indigenous-land-rights.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) will set up a public inquiry into indigenous rights issues in six months to find solutions to contentious matters.


Suhakam commissioner Jannie Lasimbang said non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had often received complaints on land issues ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Human Rights</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:23:38 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India: Systematic racial discrimination again</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Employment/India-Systematic-racial-discrimination-again.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
C. Lalremruata: During her first official visits to India on 23rd  March 2009, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi Pillay delivered an historic speech at the seminar of National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi urging the Government of India to show global leadership in the fight a...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Employment</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:21:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Malaysia: Trial of Ibans from Rumah Ranggong started at Kuching High Court</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Heritage/Malaysia-Trial-of-Ibans-from-Rumah-Ranggong-started-at-Kuching-High-Court.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
20 August 2010,KUCHING: The much anticipated trial of the residents of Rumah Ranggong longhouse against BLD Resources Sdn. Bhd., the Sarawak Land and Survey Department and the Sarawak Government got off to a lively start yesterday morning at the Kuching High Court, with the representatives of the ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Heritage</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:14:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Malaysia: Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/Malaysia-Hydroelectric-dams-pose-threat-to-tribal-peoples-report-warns.html</link>
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Dams in Malaysia will force people off land and destroy hunting grounds, says Survival International. Giant hydroelectric dams being built or planned in remote areas of Malaysia will devastate tribal communities by forcing people off their land or destroying hunting and fishing grounds, according ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:11:39 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India: Vedanta's very embarrassing silence</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Mining-and-Extractive-Industries/India-Vedanta-s-very-embarrassing-silence.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Peter Popham, 30 July 2010: Protesters demonstrate on Wednesday against the plan by Vedanta to mine for bauxite on a sacred mountain in the western Orissa region of India


Imagine it: a room full of suits in London's austere and business-like Institute of Civil Engineers, engaged in a passiona...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Mining and Extractive Industries</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:09:07 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Overview of ICCAs</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Traditional-Knowledge/Overview-of-ICCAs.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) are natural sites, resources and species&rsquo; habitats conserved in a voluntary and self-directed way through community values, practices, rules and institutions. Examples of ICCAs include indigenous biocultural heritage territories, indigenous pr...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Traditional Knowledge</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:06:55 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>NE India: COPTAM suspends agitations till Aug 25 </title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Heritage/NE-India-COPTAM-suspends-agitations-till-Aug-25.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
M Kaimuanthang, LAMKA, 17 August 2010: The Committee on Protection of Tribal Areas, Manipur (COPTAM) has decided to temporarily suspend all its agitation programmes till the 25th of this month after the state government promised that their demands over overlapping census, district boundary and hil...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Heritage</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:31:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>India: Moving On to a 'Backward' Step </title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Culture/India-Moving-On-to-a-Backward-Step.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Ranjit Devraj, New Delhi, 18 August 2010:  Strident voices are rising against the Indian coalition government's move to identify people by their caste background in the ongoing census.


India has not included caste as a category in census enumerations since 1931. This form of social hierarchy,...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Culture</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:20:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Youth forum on climate change</title>
			<link>http://www.indigenousportal.com/Climate-Change/Youth-forum-on-climate-change.html</link>
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Background:
The Youth Forum, 1-6 October 2010, is being organized recognising the far reaching consequences of climate change in the Himalaya and to make aware young professionals in the region about how parts of these problems can be addressed though application of modern day technologies, like ...]]></description>
			<author>Chin Khan Muan Gualnam</author>
			<category>Asia - Climate Change</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:18:49 +0100</pubDate>
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