IWGIA Newsletter - 2/2008

This edition of IWGIA's Newsletter covers news and updates from the indigenous world and IWGIA for the period April - May 2008. You can also open this newsletter from IWGIA's Noticeboard.


7th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - April 21 - May 2, 2008
   See an advance unedited version of the report of the seventh session (pdf, 370 KB, 57 pages)
   Find more on our web site on The Permanent Forum 2008 (internal link)

The Launch of The Indigenous World 2008 in New York
   Read more on our website about the launch of The Indigenous World 2008 (doc)
   See the video on our YouTube site from the launch (web link, in Spanish)

IWGIA welcomes the new Special Rapporteur Professor S. James Anaya
IWGIA would like to congratulate Professor James Anaya on his appointment as new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples.
On Wednesday 26 March, the Human Rights Council adopted, during its 7th session, and without a vote, the list of candidates for special procedures mandate holders proposed by the President of the Council. The list includes the name of the new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Professor James Anaya.
   Read more

More news from IWGIA

    Web site: new section on the Chittagong Hill Tracts 
   New Russia coordinator: Johannes Rohr  


News from the indigenous world

May 2008 
   Canada: Nunavik housing shortage squeezes Inuit onto Montreal
streets (internal link) 
   The Gujjar protest and reservation politics (internal link)
   Logging company CIB in Congo Brazzaville has obtained FSC certification of the second of its forest concessions (press release, pdf)
   Nepal: ‘High Level Commission’ to investigate the killing of Ram Hari Shrestha is not enough (internal link)
   Protection of indigenous media sought at the UN (internal link)
   India: Tribals will not survive without land (internal link)
   Bangladesh: Election by year-end (internal link)

April 2008
   USA: Sacred Bear Butte threatened (internal link)
   Two IWGIA supported journalists kidnapped in Bolivia (internal link)
   Nepal votes (internal link)
   The Government of Israel Continues to Demolish Bedouin Homes (internal link)
   Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples an historic opportunity to advance human rights (internal link)
   Russia: Lukoil tries to pacify indigenous people (internal link)
   Statement from the former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation in Bolivia (internal link)
   Canadian Parliament to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (internal link)
   Russia: Giant dam project could spell disaster for the Evenks (web link)


See more news articles on IWGIA's website
More news from Central and South America can be found on our Spanish website