International: Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco And Demand Moratoria On REDD+
A new Google Earth video produced by National Geographic, International Rivers, and Friends of the Earth shows in wonderful detail the reasons why dams are not the answer for clean energy in this era of rapid climate change.
The Organization of American States (OAS) has several mechanisms for participation by Indigenous Peoples.
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks opened in Panama this week, Indigenous leaders from around the world gathered in Finland and called upon the international community to remove scientific bias against Indigenous knowledge from climate change science and policy.
On September 20, 2011 while addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, called attention to the fact that large scale development projects and natural resource extraction in or near the territories of Indigenous Peoples is one of the most significant sources of abuse of their human rights worldwide.
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