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11 Sep Norway’s Sami vote prompts discrimination claims (Reuters)

Posted at 09:16h in News, Posts

Norway's Sami, the indigenous people of Northern Europe, vote for their own parliament on Monday, but some politicians are calling for the assembly to be dissolved, saying the Sami now enjoy privileged status. Established in 1989 to strengthen the ethnic group's political position, the Sami...

10 Sep Native, Green Groups Challenge Permit for Dirty Oil Pipeline (Reuters)

Posted at 09:26h in News, Posts

Native American and environmental groups filed suit in federal court last week challenging a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would bring the dirtiest oil on Earth from Canada to the United States...

10 Sep No indigenous policy (Latin American Press)

Posted at 09:23h in News, Posts

UN rapporteur denounces government’s failure to protect indigenous peoples. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People James Anaya warned that Brazil´s government policies on the indigenous population “lack coherence”...