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April 2008

The Vanishing Batak Tribe

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:01
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The end of the Batak had come and gone. Their culture was already gone. The language was all that remained. Do you doom yourself and your children to lives of abject poverty, ridden with disease and living with hunger on a daily basis just to preserve a language?

MINING AND FOREST SECTORS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 09:59
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FACE TO THE INDIGENOUS PYGMIES’ COOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT.

POSITION OF THE PROBLEM.

The Democratic Republic of congo has just done the reformation of its mining and forest regimes in giving an edict of mining code and a code of forest. This country has immeasurable forests which represent almost the half of its area, that is more or less 1,1million km. In addition, it has spacious reserves of ores and other precious raw materials such as: cassiterite and its accompaniments, gold, diamond, and so forth.

Precised informations about these ores can be found on the following site:

MASS PROTEST IN JAYAPURA - WEST PAPUA TODAY

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 10:49
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FOLLOWING THE PRESS CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY A COALITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CHURCH AND STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS YESTERDAY (16 DEC) ON THE DETERIORATING SITUATION OF THE HIGHLANDS OF WEST PAPUA, TODAY (FRIDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2004.MORE THAN 500 WEST PAPUANS OCCUPYING THE WEST PAPUAN PARLIAMENT BUILDING IN JAYAPURA, THE CAPITAL OF WEST PAPUA.

NEW REPORT FINDS SAN PEOPLE "FAST LOSING HOPE"

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 16:23
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JOHANNESBURG, Mar. 4, 2005 (IPS/GIN) -- The plight of an indigenous community in South Africa, the San, was placed in the spotlight this week with the launch of a report by the South African Human Rights Commission.

Entitled 'Report on the Inquiry Into Human Rights Violations in the Khomani San Community in South Africa', the 35-page document details what commission chairman Jody Kollapen said was "a sad story of neglect and of indifference".

DISEASE STRIKES 16% OF ISOLATED ANDAMAN TRIBE

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:09
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Forty-two children from the isolated Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands have been hit by disease in the last three weeks, in an epidemic which could wipe them out. The figure represents 16 percent of the tribe's total population of 270.