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Protesters demand inquiry into missing aboriginal women:’We’ve asked . . . but there is no answer,’ activist says (The Vancouver Sun)

More than 100 women rallied in Crab Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Sunday to demand the federal government listen to their plea for a public inquiry into the more than 500 missing and murdered aboriginal women cases across Canada. "We've asked and asked again but...

04 January, 2010

International rights tribunal to probe ownership of native land: The case involves 300,000 hectares of land on the east coast of Vancouver Island (The Globe and Mail)

A Vancouver Island native group has won a ruling that will force the Canadian government to defend its domestic human rights record at an international tribunal later this year. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has approved the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group's petition to hear the...

04 January, 2010

Chevron to pay $45M to U.S., Native Americans in settlement (USA Today)

Chevron will pay $45.5 million to resolve claims that it underpaid natural gas royalties to the government and Native Americans, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Most of the settlement money will be distributed to federal, state and American Indian accounts affected by the underpayments. More...

23 December, 2009