NewsRack: 'Indigenous People' news in 'Environmental Justice Issues' topic for user irge304

China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council	16.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council
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Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif locks down victory	12.5.2013	Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Nawaz Sharif , who twice served as Pakistan’s prime minister in the 1990s, has decisively garnered enough seats in Parliament to give him an unprecedented third term in the post, analysts said Sunday, as election results continued to pile up in favor of the industrialist’s center-right ...
In Timbuktu, conflict shatters a city’s soul	12.5.2013	Washington Post: Politics
At the entrance to this fabled city, Malian soldiers clutching Kalashnikov rifles didn’t dare approach the truck. Instead, they shouted from a distance of 15 feet for the passengers to step out, lift up their shirts and turn ...
11 Afghan landmine clearers abducted	11.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
11 Afghan landmine clearers abducted
11 Afghan landmine clearers abducted, bomb kills intelligence officer	11.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer	11.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country.
Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer	11.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer
Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer	11.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country.
Peru Deputy Minister Resigns as Humala Rolls Back Indigenous Law	5.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
Peru Deputy Minister Resigns as Humala Rolls Back Indigenous Law
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Barrick: Argentine Side of Pascua Lama Continues	1.5.2013	International Herald Tribune: Americas
Barrick: Argentine Side of Pascua Lama Continues
Barrick says Argentine construction of Pascua Lama mine continues after suspension in Chile	1.5.2013	Star Tribune: World

Barrick: Argentine side of Pascua Lama continues	1.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Work will continue on the Argentine side of Barrick Gold Corp.'s Pascua Lama mine even though construction has been ordered stopped on the Chilean side, the Canadian company and Argentine officials said Tuesday.
Navajo Nation votes to form company that would run mine near Farmington (Cached)	30.4.2013	Durango Herald
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. x2013 The Navajo Nation is moving closer to getting into the coal-mining business.Tribal lawmakers voted Monday to form a limited liability company that would run the Navajo Mine near Farmington. The tribe said it will decide by July 1 whether to buy the mine from Australia-based BHP Billiton for about 85...
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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people \| John Pilger	29.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
The story of the first Australians is still poverty and humiliation, while their land yields the world's biggest resources boom Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island , whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil's islands ; what makes Rottnest different – indeed, what makes Australia different – is silence and denial on an epic scale. "Five awesome reasons to visit!" the brochure says. These range from "family fun" to "historical Rottnest". The island is described as "a guiding light, a defender of the peace". In eight pages of prescribed family fun, there is just one word of truth – prison. More than any other colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to wilful ignorance or indifference. When I was at school in Sydney, standard texts all but dismissed the most enduring human entity on earth, the indigenous ...
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Indigenous rights are the best defence against Canada's resource rush \| Martin Lukacs	26.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
First Nations people – and the decision of Canadians to stand alongside them – will determine the fate of the planet In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one of the most powerful financial agents in North America. It's 2004, and Manuel is on a typical mission. Part of a line of distinguished Indigenous leaders from western Canada, Manuel is what you might call an economic hit-man for the right cause. A brilliant thinker trained in law, he has devoted himself to fighting Canada's policies toward Indigenous peoples by assailing the government where it hurts most – in its pocketbook. Which is why he secured a meeting in New York with a top-ranking official at Standard & Poor's , the influential credit agency that issues Canada's top-notch AAA rating. That's what assures investors that the country has its debts covered, that it is a safe and profitable place to do business. This coveted credit rating is Manuel's ...
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Mining and logging companies 'leaving all of Chile without water'	24.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
Chile's government told to stop allowing firms to exhaust water sources with little regard for local people More than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organisations protested in the Chilean capital, Santiago, this week to demand that the state regain control of the management of water, which was privatised by the then dictatorship in 1981. More than 6,000 people took part in the peaceful "great carnival march for the recovery and defence of water" on Monday, according to the organisers, one of whom was former student leader Camila Vallejo, who plans to run for parliament as a Communist party candidate. The demonstrators delivered a letter to President Sebastián Piñera, complaining that the water shortages affecting local communities were due not only to persistent drought but to structural problems in the policies governing the exploitation of natural resources. "We have discovered that there is water in Chile, but that the wall that separates it from us is called ...
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Brazil's green flagbearer Marina Silva ready to get back in the race	22.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Environmental campaigner has launched a sustainability party with an eye on the presidential election Marina Silva is what the enlightened future was supposed to look like. Smart, determined, effective and focused on indigenous culture, education and environmental conservation, the former minister and presidential candidate was once a symbol of hope for what Brazil and the world could be. But despite her prominent global profile – evidenced by the fact that she was the only Brazilian to carry the Olympic flag during London's opening ceremony – Silva has recently fallen into the shadows domestically and the sustainability agenda she champions has been sidelined by a government that is using the global economic crisis to push forward with mining, monoculture and infrastructure investment. These are tough times to be an environmental campaigner, but Silva has responded with a characteristically groundbreaking move. Earlier this year, she formed a political party that aims to channel the ...
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Tribe closes Lake Quinault to non-tribal fishing	17.4.2013	AP Washington
TAHOLAH, Wash. (AP) -- The Quinault Indian Nation is closing Lake Quinault on the Olympic Peninsula to non-tribal fishing until further notice....
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Woodside shelves $47 billion Australian LNG plant	12.4.2013	Boston Globe: Technology
Woodside shelves $47 billion Australian LNG plant
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Woodside shelves $47 billion Australian LNG plant	12.4.2013	AP Business
PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Woodside Petroleum's chief executive said he is confident that a major gas field off the northwest Australian coast will be exploited despite the energy company on Friday shelving plans for a 45 billion Australian dollar ($47 billion) plant to process the gas for export....
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