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Ecuador: Presidential decree bars oil extraction and logging from indigenous zone
January 2007
To protect indigenous groups who voluntarily isolate themselves from the modern world, the Ecuadorian government has declared a two million acre zone in an oil-rich region of the Amazon off limits to oil development and logging.
 Read the article on Environment News Service
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Colombia: Oil expansion threatens Colombia's indigenous people
February 2007
Colombia's U'wa indigenous people, in the forested mountains overlooking the oil-rich and war-torn eastern plains, are facing reversal in a hard-won land rights victory over the state oil company.
Read the article on Indian Country Today
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Colombia: The effects of the armed conflict on indigenous peoples
March 2007
The Indian Country Today brings an interview with former Colombian senator and Guambiano elder Lorenzo Muelas Hurtado who gives his view on the effect of the Colombian conflict on indigenous people, the role of the United States in the conflict and the need for a negotiated solution.
Read the interview
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Peru: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights gives Peru two weeks to take steps to protect isolated Amazonian tribes
April 2007
Latin America's top human rights body, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has ruled that Peru must act swiftly to protect isolated Amazonian tribes from illegal loggers.
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Guatemala: Indigenous peoples under-represented in national elections
August 2007
In the coming national elections in Guatemala, more than 10 years after the Peace Agreements that ended 35 years of armed struggle in 1996, indigenous peoples are seriously under-represented. Only one out of 14 candidates for president is an indigenous person, and only 107 of 753 proposed candidates for the national Congress are indigeous. At the same time, only one third of the country's indigenous population is registered to vote. 60% of the country's total population is indigenous.
Read about the elections in Prensa Latina - the Latinamerican News Agency (web link)
Read about indigenous participation in the elections in Latinamerica Press online (web link)
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Bolivia: Class war threatens constitutional reforms
September 2007
The ongoing constitution drafting process in Bolivia, which aims at redressing the country's colonial legacy, is challenged by strong opposition from the country's middle class. It is now feared that the constitutional assembly could be derailed.
Read The Guardian's article (web link)
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Bolivia: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples passed as law in Bolivia
December 2007
As the first country in the world, Bolivia has adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as national law. National Law 3760, which is an exact copy of the UN Declaration, was passed in November.
Read the story on Indian Country Today (web link)
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