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IPS News notes that the US-Peru Trade agreement is driving the state violence against indigenous communities.

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Obama’s Human Rights Scorecard: Indigenous Peoples — F LGBT Peoples — F Unions — F War and Peace — F Health Care — F Education — F Govt Corruption —…

• Global Exchange

The people in the Amazon are celebrating their victory of the day. Almost two weeks after the bloodshed in the Peruvian Amazon with the government having entered into discussions with…

• Artby - Rudolph Ryser
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Big International NGOs (BINGOs) like the Worldwide Fund for Nature, Conservation International and the Nature Conservancy directly cause the displacement of Fourth World peoples from their territories resulting in large…

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Colonial Roots Michela Wrong talks about the corruption of Kenya, the role of the World Bank in sustaining African tyrants, and the colonial roots of the present pattern of political…

• Global Exchange

The United States government is coming under intense pressure from rights organizations and environmental groups to redefine its trade pact with Peru, a tool that they charge the government in…

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Chinese Totalitarian State Human Rights in China documents the recent suppression of lawyers who represent clients denied human rights. The government of China has responded to this unwelcome phenomenon by…

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Justified Turmoil As the governments of Peru, the United States, and Canada attempt to defeat the indigenous peoples of the Amazon with military violence, the media netwar takes on new…

• Artby - Mirjam Hirch
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It is beautiful to see solidarity happen. Indigenous peoples throughout Latin America most of who have experienced similar exploitative endeavors by their national governments are supportive of the indigenous peoples’…

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Half of a Yellow Sun With the Shell settlement for complicity in murdering Nigerian human rights activists in the news this week, I thought that readers might enjoy getting to…