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Balu Wala, or the Kuna ‘good life’: how one indigenous tribe is passing on its traditions

3rd Oct 2014
Balancing the old world and the new, the Kuna people keep their heritage intact. (Ruxandra Guidi / Mongabay)

Attorney and State Ministers will apologize to Sarayaku people

30th Sep 2014
The Sarayaku people is prepared to receive on October 1 the public apologies that the State must make according to the judgment issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), based in Costa Rica, in June 2012. (Ecuador Times)

UN-masking Climate Smart Agriculture

23rd Sep 2014
As women, men, peasants, indigenous, and youth of La Via Campesina, we denounce climate smart agriculture which is presented to us as a solution to climate change and as a mechanism for sustainable development. It's clear that underneath the pretense of addressing poverty and climate change, there is nothing new. (International Peasant Movement)

Land dispute parties, govt to sit together

9th Sep 2014
The National Commission on Human Rights will hold a mediation meeting where community representatives, companies and government institutions will sit together to hear testimonies about customary land disputes in Sumatra. (Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal / The Jakarta Post)

Filmmakers sign historic agreement with tribal authorities in Mexico City

6th Sep 2014
A powerful new full-length feature film about the Wixarika People’s struggle to save their most sacred site from exploitation from Canadian mining companies has become the cutting edge of that movement as its director and protagonists prepare to make their way to Europe, the United States and Canada. (Tracy Barnett / Intercontinental Cry)

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