Full Coverage: Indigenous rights

28.10.2006 Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left's most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples' Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO)

21.10.2006 The application of Mayan law in indigenous communities in the northwestern department of Solola, has led to a heated debate on customary law — or usos y costumbres — meaning the institutions and practices of indigenous people, human rights and the official judicial system

13.10.2006 Interview with lawyer Jaime Madariaga de la Barra.
In the mid-1990s, members of southern Chile’s Mapuche community began a process of recovering their ancestral lands by occupying lots — mainly owned by lumber companies — to convert them into farmlands.

11.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (OneWorld) - Allies of dispossessed African Bushmen assailed Botswana's diamond industry as the Southern African country's president told a U.S. audience Tuesday the gem is an economic lifeline.

06.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6 (OneWorld) - Global civil society organizations are pressing the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their land and resources.