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Ecuador: The New Law of the Jungle

Pulitzer Center's Kelly Hearn is in Ecuador covering what has been dubbed Ecuador's Rainforest Chernobyl and it could turn out to be one of the biggest legal environmental battles ever fought....

Bolivia

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Labor

Witnessed: 297 times

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Bolivia's Coca Culture

The coca plant, used in indigenous cultural rituals and traditional medicines, is also the main ingredient for cocaine....

Bolivia

Drugs & human rights, Indigenous peoples, Poverty

Witnessed: 283 times

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Roundup: Highlights this week on the Hub

Several interesting items uploaded to the Hub this week!  Be sure to check out these three:

Bosnia, Canada, United States

Education, Indigenous peoples, War crimes

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Mexico: Police attack Indigenous farmers, killing six

On October 3, 2008, federal and state police in Chiapas, Mexico, carried out a violent operation that left six people dead, 17 injured, and 36 more detained, almost all of whom were inhabitants of the...

Indigenous peoples, Police brutality

Witnessed: 210 times

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Police attack Algonquin families at peaceful blockade

On Monday, October 6, Police officers in Quebec, Canada, used tear gas and "pain compliance" techniques on Algonquin families from Barriere Lake First Nation, who had erected a peaceful blockade to ...

Canada

Freedom of opinion & expression, Indigenous peoples, Police brutality

Witnessed: 344 times

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VAW 08: Chandra Singh Kulung on Obtaining Identity for the Indigenous Kulung Community

Chandra Singh Kulung is Senior Advisor of the Association of Nepal Kirit Kulung Language and Cultural Development....

Nepal, Thailand

Indigenous peoples

Witnessed: 336 times

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VAW 08: Mamata Dash on Mining and Displacement in India

Mamata Dash, a human rights activist, discusses her work on anti-mining and anti-displacement campaigns in Orissa, India....

India, Thailand

Indigenous peoples, Internally displaced persons

Witnessed: 303 times

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