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Agatha: Rope indigenous people into climate change decisions (The Hindu)

Minister of State for Rural Development Agatha Sangma has called for timely interventions and properly implemented policies to protect the lifestyles of several hundred million indigenous people (Scheduled Tribes in India) in Asia-Pacific who are faced with the threat of climate change and extreme rural...

28 March, 2010

Tories ignoring Inuit, Liberal conference told (The Toronto Star)

Inuit people are less involved in federal government decisions today than they were before the federal Conservatives came to power, according to Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a leading voice for the Arctic in Canada and in international circles. "There was a time where there was a lot...

27 March, 2010

Australia Aboriginal youths 28 times more likely to end up in jail (The Christian Science Monitor)

The death of several Australian Aborigines who have died in prison or police custody around the country recently has underscored the disproportionately high percentage of Aborigines among the country’s incarcerated – a result in part of overcrowded housing and low education rates that go hand...

26 March, 2010