indigenous group news
Your Search Returned 22 tagged news reports
Ecuador auctions off Amazon to Chinese oil firms
Quito :: Ecuador | 1 month ago
Credibility
On Monday morning a group of Ecuadorean politicians pitched bidding contracts to representatives of Chinese oil companies at a Hilton hotel in central Beijing, on the fourth leg of a roadshow to publicise the bidding process. Previous meetings in
Tags:
Indigenous groups blast ‘incursion' of plantations into ancestral lands
Malaybalay :: Philippines | 6 months ago
Credibility
Indigenous groups blast incursion' of plantations into ancestral lands November 21, 2012 5:15pm Indigenous peoples are apprehensive about what they see as a massive incursion of foreign interests into their ancestral lands, with a multinational
Tags:
Symbol of Native Culture to Be Bulldozed for World Cup
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 7 months ago
Credibility
One victim of the remodelling of Brazil's Maracana football stadium in preparation for the World Cup is the old Museum of the Indian, where people from different indigenous groups have attempted to keep their culture alive in the heart of Rio de
Tags:
Gold miners accused of tribal massacre
Puerto Ayacucho :: Venezuela | 9 months ago
Credibility
The announcement Wednesday followed calls for action this week by a Yanomami organization and other indigenous groups. The Venezuelan government said that two public officials had been asked to carry out the inquiry into the alleged attack from a
Tags:
Colombia indigenous leader killed
Bogotá :: Colombia | 9 months ago
Credibility
Lisandro Tenorio, a traditional healer of the Nasa tribe, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday. Members of his tribe said he had received death threats from Colombia's largest rebel group, the Farc. The Nasa have demanded that the rebels
Tags:
Colombia to challenge tribal case
Bogotá :: Colombia | 10 months ago
Credibility
Colombia to challenge court's indigenous land ruling The court said indigenous groups were in grave danger due to Colombia's armed conflict The Colombian government says it will challenge a court decision which ruled against the military in a land
Tags:
Colombian police clash with tribe
Bogotá :: Colombia | 10 months ago
Credibility
More than 20 people were injured in the clashes in Cauca province, in Colombia's south-west. Nasa tribesmen had taken the army post on Cerro Berlin on Tuesday and forced the soldiers stationed there to leave. The Nasa say they are tired of being
Tags:
Forest Service, indigenous group at odds over fire
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility
Friday, July 6, 2012 9:51 am (0) Comments Font Size: A group of indigenous people is in the midst of a four-day ceremony in a northern Arizona forest that uses a fire to send prayers up through smoke to the creator...Forest Service let it burn into a
Tags:
Brazil indigenous group in clash
São Paulo :: Brazil | 11 months ago
Credibility
Brazil indigenous group attacks police station in Para Police in Brazil are sending reinforcements to a remote town in the Amazon jungle after members of an indigenous group burned down a police station. An officer was hit in the arm by an arrow
Tags:
BANGLADESH: Indigenous groups face land-grabbing in north
Dinājpūr :: Bangladesh | over 1 year ago
Credibility
Northern Bangladesh's mostly Hindu indigenous people are still coming under land-grabbing pressure from the country's predominantly Bengali Muslim population, say activists...But ethnic Bengalis make up 99 percent of the country's over 140 million
Tags:
