Tag: indigenous groups

• Tuesday, June 1st 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Indigenous groups press Canada's Government for results after 215 children remains were unearthed last week

  

  While Canada remains under shock following the discovery last week of 215 children buried near a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, indigenous groups are demanding more answers and actions from the Government.

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous groups exposed to coronavirus and swarms of illegal gold miners

  

  The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its 27,000 people could have been exposed, according to a report produced by their leaders.

• Saturday, May 16th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous groups at risk of decimation because of the coronavirus

  

  The coronavirus pandemic has hit 38 indigenous groups in Brazil, raising fears for populations that have a history of being decimated by outside diseases, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples' Association (APIB) said on Friday.

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Mapuches and other indigenous groups fight police on Columbus Day

  

  Chilean police fired tear gas and water cannon on Sunday to break up thousands of indigenous protesters demanding land rights and condemning Columbus Day, after masked demonstrators began throwing stones.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  UN calls on Chile to stop using anti-terrorism law against indigenous Mapuches

  

  A United Nations investigator on Tuesday urged Chile’s government to stop using an anti-terrorism law against Mapuche Indians who are fighting to recover their ancestral land.

• Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 - 08:24 UTC

  Piñera prepared to grant constitutional recognition to Chile’s indigenous groups

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera pledged to work with “maximum urgency” on a bill that would grant constitutional recognition to the country's indigenous groups. Piñera also announced the creation of an indigenous peoples' council that fully represents “their history, traditions, culture” and via which “they could raise their strong and clear voice about their future.”

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 18:50 UTC

  OAS and Peru will discuss how to address socio-environment conflict in mining areas

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold, on December 6 and 7 in Lima, Peru, the Meeting of Government Experts on the Management of Socio-Environmental Conflict for the countries of Central America and the Andean Region.

• Friday, December 9th 2011 - 07:08 UTC

  UN expert calls on Argentina to improve living conditions of indigenous groups

  

  A United Nations expert urged Argentina to strengthen its measures to protect the human rights of indigenous groups as well as their rights to land ownership and education, adding that a mechanism to establish dialogue between them and the Government is urgently needed.