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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Why Do Some Countries Adopt International Protocols and Scientific Recommendations Quicker than Others?

Why Do Some Countries Adopt International Protocols and Scientific Recommendations Quicker than Others?

February 9, 2010

An article in Resilience Science asks the question “Why do some countries adopt the Kyoto Protocol and IPCC recommendations earlier than others?” The COMPON project (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks) developed cross-national surveys to…

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Enduring Malign Neglect

Enduring Malign Neglect

February 9, 2010

There are many examples of misplaced priorities and distorted values emanating from Congress and the White House, but due to their peculiar history, the disaster unfolding on South Dakota Indian…

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Insidious Goals

Insidious Goals

February 7, 2010

In February 2001, Yakama Indian Nation cultural leader and CWIS Board Member Russell Jim spoke about the insidious goals of the US government toward the indigenous peoples of the world,…

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Welcome Contributors Waters and Davis

Welcome Contributors Waters and Davis

February 5, 2010

I wish to let all of our readers know that two new contributors have now been added to the Fourth World Eye roster. Tiffany Waters, Deputy Director and Research Associate…

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Seeking Due Process

Seeking Due Process

February 5, 2010

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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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Hul'qumi'num Land Claim

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Hul’qumi’num Land Claim

February 5, 2010

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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Liberating Resistance

Liberating Resistance

February 4, 2010

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

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Miquel Alfonso Martinez - Diplomat and Friend

Miquel Alfonso Martinez – Diplomat and Friend

February 3, 2010

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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Dioxin and Diabetes

Dioxin and Diabetes

February 3, 2010

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

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An Occupation of the Souls

An Occupation of the Souls

February 3, 2010

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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Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library

The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.

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