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The planet's roughly 350 million indigenous peoples took notable steps on the international stage in the last decade. They got the world's governments to agree to create a body to represent them at the United Nations, the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and to appoint a special rapporteur responsible for their human rights. Yet the years 1995-2004, named by the UN as the Indigenous Decade, did not see a significant change in the living conditions of most "tribal", "aboriginal", "native" or "first" peoples. Calling those conditions "precarious", the UN has declared 2005-2014 a second Indigenous Decade. IPS, with its network of contributors at the UN and linked to indigenous communities worldwide, is committed to tracking the world community's efforts to do justice to the rights and aspirations of these peoples..
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- RIGHTS-PERU: US Judge Awards Millions in Damages to Massacre Survivors
LIMA, Mar 5 (IPS) - A U.S. federal judge ordered retired Peruvian army major Telmo Hurtado to pay 37 million dollars to two survivors of a 1985 massacre in which 69 indigenous peasants, mainly women and children, were killed in the highlands village of Accomarca. - CANADA: Native Leader Serving Six Months for Opposing Mine
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Mar 5 (IPS) - Algonquin community leader Robert Lovelace had never been charged with an offence, but when a uranium company began prospecting for radioactive ore on unceded native land without engaging in consultation, he decided to take action, organising a non-violent blockade. - RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Displaced Pay Homage to Victims of Paramilitaries
FLANDES, Colombia, Mar 5 (IPS) - "It was an homage to the indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, peasant farmers and everyone else who has been killed in this absurd war," indigenous activist Manuel Bautista told IPS at the start of a three-day march that will end in the Colombian capital Thursday. - PERU: Massacre Participant Unsuccessfully Seeking Asylum in US
LIMA, Mar 5 (IPS) - In a desperate attempt to keep out of the reach of the Peruvian justice system, which is investigating a 1985 massacre of 69 highland villagers by the military, retired army captain David Castañeda is seeking -- unsuccessfully so far -- political asylum in the United States. - BRAZIL: Keeping Indigenous Identity Intact in "Urban Village"
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil, Mar 3 (IPS) - "I desperately want to go back. I feel like I’m living in a prison here, but I stay on because I love my children," says Conceição Gonçalves, who misses the indigenous village of Taunay where she lived until last year, when she moved to the capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. - BRAZIL: Indigenous Groups Defend Constitutional Right to Land
MIRANDA and ANTONIO JOAO, Brazil, Feb 29 (IPS) - Thousands of indigenous people in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are living in precarious camps or small overcrowded reservations, lacking the land they need to grow the food needed to overcome high levels of malnutrition. - BRAZIL: Rising Indigenous Death Toll Sparks Calls to "Stop the Genocide"
DOURADOS, Brazil, Feb 28 (IPS) - Valdelice Verón still regrets not being at her father’s side, but he had sent her to the city. And she still remembers that early morning on Jan. 12, 2003, when her daughter called out, "Mommy, grandpa’s on TV." It was the news that her father was in the hospital, critically wounded. - BRAZIL: Guaraní Education Empowers Women Leaders
DOURADOS, Brazil, Feb 26 (IPS) - Leia Aquino gave up her plans to work in a hospital in order to be near her husband, a nurse, the day she saw a motorcyclist badly injured in an accident. Her aversion to the sight of so much blood led her to become a teacher instead, and now she runs a school for indigenous children on the Brazil-Paraguay border. - RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: A Minute of Silence for the Victims
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 25 (IPS) - "I’m a widow. The army took away my husband," said Celestina Otzoy, an indigenous woman who had five children when her husband was "disappeared" in 1982 in the central Guatemalan region of San Juan de Comalapa during the country’s 1960-1996 armed conflict. - LATIN AMERICA: Justice Disserved for Indigenous Prisoners
SANTIAGO, Feb 25 (IPS) - While Mapuche Indians in Chile complain that the government has "criminalised" their land-rights protests, many indigenous people are in prison in Mexico and Peru because there were no translators to explain why they were on trial. - RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Apology To Stolen Generations - A Good Start
MELBOURNE, Feb 25 (IPS) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s recent apology to indigenous Australians, for the wrongs and injustices inflicted upon them by the policies of past governments, was momentous. But other indigenous issues are yet to be resolved. - ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Locals Oppose Open Pit Mining For Copper, Gold
TAMPAKAN, Mindanao, Feb 20 (IPS) - Under the fertile farmland and forests of southern Mindanao sits what may be one of the biggest copper deposits in South-east Asia. But whether the owners of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project should be permitted to tap the mineral lode is under question. - PERU: From Shantytown to Model for Urban Development
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Feb 19 (IPS) - Peruvian activist María Elena Moyano became a liability in the eyes of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebels on Feb. 13, 1992. That was the day she dared to flout the curfew imposed by the insurgents in order to lead a peace march in the streets. - RIGHTS-IRAN: Intolerance Marks Sunni Student's Death Sentence
TEHRAN, Feb 19 (IPS) - The death sentence passed in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, on civil rights activist and journalist Yaghub Mehrnahad, 28, has highlighted repression on Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities. - GUATEMALA: Indigenous Women Weave Incomes, Self-Confidence
SOLOLÁ, Guatemala, Feb 18 (IPS) - "Before forming part of the association, we were shut up in our houses. Now we have overcome our fear and shame of going out and seeing new places, and we are bringing money in for our families," says Nicolasa Raxtun, a 30-year-old Maya Cakchiquel Indian woman.
