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Philippines: Compostela tribal chief shot dead
Edith Regalado, 18 August 2010: A tribal leader who had been critical of illegal logging was gunned down in Monkayo, Compostela Valley Monday night....
Human Rights
Malaysia: Suhakam initiates inquiry on indigenous land rights
KUALA LUMPUR: The Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) will set up a public inquiry into indigenous rights issues in six months to find solutions to co...
Language
NE India: Zo Indigenous Forum submitted Memorundum to the Governor of Mizoram
Subject: Submission for the interest of the Zo Indigenous people, Your excelleny Sir, Greetings on behalf of Zo Indigenous Forum. Thank you for giving...
Business
Bangladesh: Five committees to monitor prices hikes during Ramadan
Chittagong district administration, CAB , journalist and the businessmen at a meeting in the port city on Sunday decided to form five monitoring com...
Self-Determination
China-Taiwan: Recognizing the Pingpu
13 August 2010: In 1994, the UN General Assembly approved Aug. 9 as International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. That date was chosen ...
Politics
Philippines: A Challenge to the New Administration Under the Leadership of President Benigno Simeon
Recalling Article 7 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) which affirms the rights to life, physical, and mental integr...
Employment
India: Systematic racial discrimination again
C. Lalremruata: During her first official visits to India on 23rd March 2009, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi Pillay delivered...
Mining and Extractive Industries
NE India: NHRC asks Meghalaya to file report on child labour in mines
Tezang Chakma: The National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) which took sou moto cognizance of a media report alleging that about 70,000 chil...
Climate Change
Youth forum on climate change
Background:
The Youth Forum, 1-6 October 2010, is being organized recognising the far reaching consequences of climate change in the Himalaya and t...
Biological Diversity
Korea: President of the Republic of Korea receives CBD Award for his contribution to biodiversity co
Seoul, 24 August 2010 – In recognition of his unique contribution to the preservation of life on Earth, Mr. Lee Myung-bak, the President of the ...
Environment
Burma: Drought depletes Burma’s second-largest lake
SHWE AUNG, 16 August 2010: Water levels have fallen by half in Burma’s second largest lake following a severe drought this year that affected ...
Education
Malaysia: Conference on UNDRIP implementation and challenges
Organised by The Centre For Malaysian Indigenous Studies (CMIS), and Centre For Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law, Faculty of Law, UM (CLPIL), Date: ...
Traditional Knowledge
Overview of ICCAs
Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) are natural sites, resources and species’ habitats conserved in a voluntary and self-directed...
Technology
Opportunity for Community Radios in South Asia to Participate in Internet Broadcasting Workshop
In the past few years in South Asian countries there have been a remarkable progress in the development of community radios. Liberalization of broad...
Economic Development
China: Announces Development Plan for Restive Xinjiang Region
EDWARD WONG, 28 May 2010: BEIJING — The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measu...
Health
China: To spree, or to save? Drought put sprinkling festival under fire
JINGHONG, Yunnan, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A governmental decision to go ahead with the sprinkling spree to celebrate a traditional festival has sparked...
Gender
Malaysia: Activists protest in London over rape of Penan girls and women
By STEPHEN THEN: International environmental activists from Survival International and Greenpeace demonstrated outside Oxford University in London T...
Art
NE India: Bamboo and Cane Culture of Mizoram
27 January, 2010: Mizoram is the land of a number of craftsmen and skilled artisans excelling in various crafts. Bamboo and Cane related crafts are ...
Entertainment
NE India: Indigenous Khasi tradition finds place in ‘Colours of India’
The magnifi-cent traditions of the Indigenous Khasi people of Meghalaya India has found place in a documentary titled 'Colours of India'.
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