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Global war against indigenous intensifying as imperialists scramble for land and resources
2013-11-24 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deep Green Resistance: A new report on minorities and indigenous people warns that the global 'intensification` in the exploitation of natural resources is leading to mounting conflicts for the world`s 370 million indigenous people. The report for 2012 by the London-based human rights group, Minority Rights Group International (MRG), says indigenous peoples "in every region of the world" face the risk of being "driven from their land and natural resources." The land and resources are all "vital for their livelihoods,...
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Worlds apart: Indigenous leaders abandon faith in UN to find climate solution
2013-11-12 14:35:57| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: As United Nations delegates gather in Warsaw in the 19th annual effort to craft a global climate treaty, indigenous leaders from across North America met half a world away and offered a prophecy: The solution to climate change will never come via the UN talks. I have nothing to say to them. They are orators of the highest quality, but the time for excuses has gone. - Uncle, Eskimo runner Tribal elders from the United States, Greenland and Mexico spoke of the need for individual action rather...
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Global indigenous women leaders make sure their voices are heard loud & clear
2013-11-07 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Womens News Network: Local Indigenous women representatives from the Arctic Circle to Australia traveled to Peru in October 2013 to discuss issues in the rise in widespread gender-based violence and other experiences of injustice and marginalization, as well as a myriad of other challenges facing indigenous women across the globe. Image: AAP (WNN) Lima, PERU, SOUTH AMERICA: On October 28, 2013 indigenous women from around the globe came together to prepare for the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in September...
How climate change impacts indigenous communities
2013-10-29 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Two University of Arizona researchers have contributed to a special issue of the journal Climatic Change that centers on the impacts of climate change on tribal natural and cultural resources. The issue, released online on Sept. 15, represents the first time a peer-reviewed scientific journal has devoted an entire edition exclusively to climate change and its impacts on indigenous communities across the United States. Benedict J. Colombi, an associate professor in the School of Natural Resources...
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Indigenous Australians 'Face Disproportionate Harm' from Climate Change
2013-10-15 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Indigenous Australians face disproportionate harm from climate change, according to a leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The second IPCC report, which is due to be released next March, also warns that climate change could swamp $226bn worth of coastal property via sea-level rises and cause the number of heatwave-related deaths in Sydney to triple by the end of the century. It says there is high agreement among scientists that Indigenous people will face significant...
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