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United Nations adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoplesin an Historic Vote on Thursday, September 13, 2007 Read more... Indian and Alaska Native nations and tribes have long used international law, especially human rights law, to challenge the discrimination and injustice that affect them. International human rights offer some real hope for overcoming the severe unfairness of the laws...
Article by Gwen Florio May 10, 2009 Twenty-one years ago, Congress apologized to Japanese Americans for interning them during World War II. Sixteen years ago, Congress apologized for the "grave injustice" of overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaii a century earlier. Last year, the House - though not the Senate - apologized for "the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of...
It's 2009 and Indian people are still being killed for their land and natural resources. After 56 days of peaceful protests by indigenous people struggling to protect their land from oil drilling, mining and other mega-developments, President Alan Garcia sent troops to Bagua Grande, 870 miles north of Lima. On June 5, police opened fire on the protesters at Devil's...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2009 The Indian Law Resource Center is alarmed and deeply concerned about the violence between Peruvian special forces and indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. The unfolding situation in Peru is the direct outcome of the government's failure to respect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples to their land and natural resources. The Center, as...
Es el año 2009 y los pueblos indígenas siguen siendo asesinados por sus tierras y recursos naturales. Hasta la fecha, la violencia en Perú ha resultado en la muerte de 22 policías y quizás más de un cien indígenas que se enfrentaron en un corte de rutas instalado por los líderes indígenas el 5 de junio de 2009 cerca de...
PARA SU INMEDIATA DIFUSION 9 Junio 2009 Contacte a Valerie Taliman al 406.449.2006 o [email protected] El Centro de Recursos Jurídicos para los Pueblos Indígenas esta alarmado y profundamente preocupado por la violencia acontecida entre las fuerzas especiales peruanas y los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía Peruana. La situación desarrollada en Perú es la consecuencia directa por la falta de respeto...
In an OpEd published by "Indian Country Today," Robert Coulter comments on recent killings of indigenous Peruvians, stating, "This is an ugly and familiar story: A country decides that in order to prosper, it must conquer the Indian peoples and seize their lands and resources. It is a story that has been condemned and rejected by the world community. This...
Published June 12, 2009 Garcia denies massacre and keeps laws; forces Native chief out By Renzo Pipoli http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/home/content/47921432.html Peruvian President Alan Garcia assured reporters in Lima June 10 - in his first comments following a deadly confrontation June 5, described by Natives as their worst single-day killing in decades - that it is a lie many Natives died because police...
We have continued with our training in human rights advocacy for indigenous leaders in Central and South America and we are very excited about our new project, which we began in July 2006, to provide human rights training to tribal leaders in the United States. Indigenous peoples face many serious human rights and environmental problems due to illegal land expropriation...
A paper written by Center attorney Leonardo Crippa, comparing U.S. NEPA and the equivalent legislation in Guatemala.