- Wednesday Jun 24,2009 01:42 PM
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The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described the outcome of the landmark suit instituted by Ken Saro Wiwa Jnr and other Ogonis accusing Shell of complicity in the execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders in 1995, among other human rights abuses, as a significant milestone in the search for justice in the bloody oil fields of the Niger Delta. (more…)
- Monday Jun 15,2009 04:38 PM
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Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. See full text.
- Friday May 29,2009 06:47 PM
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A Report on the seminar titled ‘The Politics, Potentials, and Meanings of the WSF in Belém: The Significance for the World Social Forum of the Participation of the Indigenous Peoples of the World’, held in Belém, Brazil, on January 29, 2009. Organised by CACIM (India) and & NFFPFW - National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers (India) (more…)
