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

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Holding Canada Accountable

Holding Canada Accountable

December 29, 2009

Intercontinental Cry offers an excellent briefing on human rights and environmental abuses by Canadian corporations.

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How It Is Done

How It Is Done

December 28, 2009

Given the repeated failure of corporate states to effectively deal with issues of major import like climate change, the proposal to shift leadership on climate adaptation to stateless nations merits…

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Kurdistan Endures

Kurdistan Endures

December 28, 2009

Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament regroup after a Turkish court banned their political party and some of its leaders.

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Protocols of UNDRIP

Protocols of UNDRIP

December 26, 2009

In response to a threat by the Asian Development Bank and Nepalese government to displace them for a water project, the Hyolmo indigenous people of central Nepal have made a…

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“Grand Adaptation Coalition” Needed

“Grand Adaptation Coalition” Needed

December 26, 2009

Now that the United Nation’s Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty Conference is over it is time to consider the best path for indigenous peoples to take to secure their future. While…

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Everything is Connected

Everything is Connected

December 25, 2009

Reading about the $200 million Justice Department agreement with oil and gas companies resulting from federal whistleblower lawsuits that showed the companies deliberately falsified records to steal royalties due American…

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Fate of the Planet

Fate of the Planet

December 24, 2009

Carbon Watch, a joint project of FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting, examines carbon market trading–the largest commodity exchange in history. The big question in light of the recent…

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Murderous Missionaries

Murderous Missionaries

December 24, 2009

American evangelicals, including friends of President Obama, are busy promoting the criminalization of homosexuality in Africa. In Uganda, where homosexuality is already a crime, these US missionaries are pushing for…

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Jerusalem Injustice

Jerusalem Injustice

December 23, 2009

Leading Anti-Apartheid activist Jamal Juma has been arrested in Jerusalem. Mohammad Othman and Abdullah Abu Rahmeh have been detained without charges.

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Mapping Ethnocide

Mapping Ethnocide

December 23, 2009

Mapping the Guarani may help them in their struggle against ethnocide.

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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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