Social Development
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Mon Dec 11 2006
Ethnic structure, inequality and governance of the public sector
This project examines the complex ways ethnic cleavages and inequalities affect social cohesion or consensus in the public sector under conditions of democratization.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Tue Sep 26 2006
Paradigm wars: indigenous peoples’ resistance to economic globalization
Special report focused on the myriad ways that economic globalization is impacting indigenous peoples worldwide. July 2005.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Thu Sep 14 2006
Indigenous peoples' resistance to economic globalization
A celebration of victories, rights and cultures, co-organized by Tebbteba foundation, one of ESCR-Net Members. The event will take place in November 18, in New York City. Pdf format.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Thu Aug 10 2006
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
The 12th commemoration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People was on Wednesday 9 of August 2006.
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Education
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Wed Jul 26 2006
Brazil: race quotas accused of racism
The imminent approval of a law that establishes obligatory quotas for Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples at public universities, has sparked a resurgence of the controversy about how to combat racism and inequality in Brazil.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Tue May 30 2006
Global anti-poverty plan must include native peoples
At the close of a major United Nations meeting in New York Friday, indigenous leaders urged the world's developed countries to take into account the concerns of native communities living within their borders while implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Indigenous Peoples
- Mon May 29 2006
A message from the Amazon against "environmental services"
The experts at the service of transnational corporations have proved to have an unlimited inventive capacity to better serve those who are paying them. Among their most recent achievements is having managed to put up for sale nature itself under the guise of so-called "environmental services."
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Indigenous Peoples
- Mon May 15 2006
The Indigenous World 2006
The new edition of IWGIA's Yearbook The Indigenous World has now been published in English and Spanish featuring country reports and a section on international processes relating to indigenous peoples.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Wed May 10 2006
5th Session UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
In addition to the formal Forum Session, there are over 50 side events scheduled for the two weeks while the Forum is in session. 15 to 26 May 2006.
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Human Rights
/Migration
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Fri Mar 17 2006
Fighting everyday racism
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is marked every year on 21 March with activities led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, New York and at the field-presences. This year’s theme is Fighting Everyday Racism.
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