human rights
US State Department Criticizes Discrimination Against G/wi.
The 2005 annual Human Rights report from the US State Department has criticized the government of Botswana for violating the rights of the San peoples when it evicted them from their traditional homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Cultural Survival highlighted this recent development in its weekly news service on April 14. The State […]
UN Report Condemns Human Rights Violations of Inuit
The UN Human Rights Commission issued a report on April 10 pointing out that “poverty, infant mortality, unemployment, morbidity, suicide, criminal detention” and other social problems plague Canadian First Nations, including the Inuit. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a special investigator for the UN who focuses on the human rights of indigenous societies, visited Canada for nearly two […]
Arctic Warming Endangers Human Rights of Inuit
The rapid warming of the Arctic is more than an environmental catastrophe. The Inuit are beginning to see it as a human rights issue as well. Their views have been presented by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an international organization representing the Inuit of Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Russia, to a meeting on international climate change […]
