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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has agreed to hear a land claim petition from First Nations on Vancouver Island. Seeking due process in the international arena, after frustrated attempts…

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A coalition of First Nations groups has taken its human rights complaint against the government of Canada into the international arena where the state will be required to defend its…

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Mayans in Guatemala liberate activist from police, a model of resistance for us all.

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After losing one friend it appears I have lost yet another.  Dr. Miquel J. Alfonso Martinez, one Cuba’s most outstanding diplomats who in my experience played a dominant role in…

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Intercontinental Cry examines the connection between diabetes and persistent organic pollutants like PCBs and DDT.

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Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman discusses the global regression of the status quo, what he has termed an occupation of the souls. As Suleiman observes in this interview by Electronic Intifada’s …

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Defending democracy from the philanthropists was the topic of an interesting post by a friend of mine, but you probably get the gist of it: there are those who do…

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Viktor Kaisiepo, died on Sunday 31 January 2010 at the age of 61. A Papuan nationalist who vigorously represented his own tribal community as well as the hundreds of communities…

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Afghanistan and Pakistan stand as two semi-organized states with Pashtunistan and other nations astride their mid-sections. Violently attacked by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1980s, undermined by…

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One month out from the international conference in London to discuss the reunification of Ireland, talks in Northern Ireland continue over the transfer of policing and justice powers from the…