IWGIA Newsletter - 1/2007
This edition of IWGIA Newsletter covers news and updates from the indigenous world and IWGIA in December 2006 and January 2007.
IWGIA website updates:
 Thematic Focus: Thematic Focus puts focus on different issues of importance to indigenous peoples. The theme 3/2006 focuses on Logging and Indigenous Peoples. On this page you will find links to reports and articles by other organizations and journals that document and analyse different aspects of indigenous peoples' problems with logging and the intention is that this can serve as an entry point for readers who wish to explore this theme further.
Country Profiles: The country profiles on India and Malaysia are now on the website. The country profiles contain extensive information on indigenous peoples and issues affecting the indigenous peoples in selected countries.
New IWGIA report series: IWGIA is publishing a new human rights report series. The first report is "IWGIA Report 1 – The Lhaka Honhat Case in Argentina". Click here to download the report (in Spanish only).
News from the indigenous world:
Australia: Aborigines win big land claim
Ecuador: Presidential decree bars oil extraction and logging from indigenous zone
Russia: Sami fight for their lives
India: India's tribal people win land rights
Kenya: A landmark ruling for the indigenous people in Kenya
Botswana: Bushmen win land ruling
Bangladesh: Indigenous peoples struggling for recognition and development activities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
See more news articles on IWGIA's Noticeboard
International processes:
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: Coverage of the 40th session which took place in the Gambia from November 15 – 29, 2006.
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News from IWGIA:
From mid-January, Ulla Godtfredsen joined IWGIA as new Director.
Read the Director's note
New IWGIA publication:
Indigenous Affairs 4/2006 - Logging and Indigenous Peoples, edited by Marianne Wiben Jensen and Sille Stidsen
Read more about IWGIA
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