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| Health of the Indigenous People. More>> |
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| “Pygmies”, Foundation Pygmy Kleinood. More>> |
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| "Ituri Forest”, Foundation Pygmy Kleinood". More>> |
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| “Increase of Forest Cutting speed in Eastern Ituri Forest, DRCongo”, Foundation Pygmy Kleinood. Email:info@pygmee.nl>> More>> |
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| Celebrating International Day of the World's Indigenous People: The Right to be Cool |
The International Day of the World's Indigenous People is commemorated each year on 9 August in recognition of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva in 1982,
Nairobi, 9 August 2007. More>>
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| International Day brings recognition of indigenous peoples |
| International Day brings recognition of indigenous peoples’ contribution to environmental protection, combating climate change, New York, 9 August 2007. More>> |
| Central Africa: HIV/AIDS a threat to indigenous forest communities, PlusNews. More>> |
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| Global warming is human rights issue-Nobel nominee - Washington, 4 March, 2007 |
It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines:
How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt. More>>
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| Hearing to probe climate change and Inuit rights,Toronto, February 21, 2007 |
The Inuit of Arctic Canada and Alaska are bearing the brunt of global warming and their way of life is in peril, an international human rights body will be told next month.
Inuit activists hope a hearing on Arctic climate change by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will lead to reduced emissions and will help to protect the culture of the northern native people. More>> |
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| Inuit say US breaching human rights with global warming - Washington, Friday, 9 February 2007 |
WASHINGTON - Delegation of Inuit is to travel to Washington DC to provide first-hand testimony of how global warming is destroying their way of life and to accuse the Bush administration of undermining their human rights. More>>
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| The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - Philadelphia |
| A Quaker humanitarian service organization, has nominated two Colombian groups for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their extraordinary commitment to nonviolence in the midst of the country’s 50 year-old conflict and their exemplification of organized efforts by many Colombians to end that conflict justly.
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| Press Releases from International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. More>> |
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| Newsletters |
| Africa Indigenous Struggle for Renewal: [English], [Français] |
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| IRIN In -depth report: Monorities under siege- Pygmies today in Africa. |
Pygmies are predominantly members of hunter-gatherer communities living in equatorial rainforests across Central Africa. They are considered to be the original inhabitants of the continent. More>>
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| Newsletter of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) |
| Newsletter produced by the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues for the period of October to December 2007. More>> |
