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The Indigenous World - Yearbook

The Indigenous World 2008 (578 pages, 8.95 MB)

The Indigenous World 2007 (594 pages, 8.33 MB)

The Indigenous World 2006 (575 pages, 5.24 MB)

The Indigenous World 2005 (567 pages, 12.31 MB)

Not available for download!

The Indigenous World 2002-2003 (448 pages, 8.51 MB)

The Indigenous World 2001-2002 (460 pages, 2.13 MB)

The Indigenous World 2000-2001 (472 pages, 2.27 MB)


Indigenous Affairs

1-2/08 Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
English (PDF, 8.95 MB, 80 pages)

4/07 Social Suffering
English (PDF, 5.91 MB, 52 pages)
4/07 Sufrimiento Social
Spanish (PDF, 8.25 MB, 51 pages)

3/07: Migration
English (PDF, 7.04 MB, 51 pages)
Spanish (PDF, 6.7 MB, 51 pages)

1-2/2007: First Year of Evo Morales' Precidency 
English PDF (part 1, 7.49 MB, 49 pages) (part 2, 6.01 MB, 43 pages)
Spanish (PDF, 18.11 MB, 92 pages)

4/06 Logging and Indigenous Peoples
English (PDF, 6 articles)
4/06 Explotación forestal y Pueblos Indígenas
Spanish (PDF, 11.8 MB, 52 pages)

2-3/06 Arctic Oil and Gas Development
English (part 1, 39 pages - part 2, 37 pages)
2-3/06 Pueblos Indígenas e Idrocarburos
Spanish (part 1, MB, pages, part 2)


1/2006: Africa and the Millennium Development Goals - PDF (56 pages)

3-4/05: Indigenous Youth
English (
Editorial 1 MB, America 11.8 MB, Africa 1.16 MB, Asia 11.6 MB, Arctic 3.52 MB. Total 68 pages)
2-3/05: Juventud Indígena 
Castellano (Editorial 1MB, Américas 12.8 MB, Asia 10.3 MB, Ártico 3.38 MB. Total 60 pages)

2/2005: Shifting Cultivation - PDF (6 articles)

1/05: Indigenous Peoples and Education
English (Editorial, Arctic CanadaMexico, South America, Southern Africa, Kenya, Malaysia)
Castellano (PDF, part 1, 9.71 MB, part 2, 6.2 MB - 48 pages)

4/2004: Land Rights: A Key Issue
English - (PDF, MB, 52 pages)

Castellano - (PDF, MB, 52 páginas)

3/04: The UN decade: Expectations and Realities
English - (PDF, MB, 48 pages)

Castellano - (PDF, MB, 48 pages)

1-2/2004: Indigenous Women - (PDF, 66 pages)
1-2/2004: Mujeres Indígenas - (PDF, 72 páginas)

4/2003: Indigenous Peoples in Africa (48 pages)

3/2003: Open issue - PDF (48 pages)

2/2003: Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology
English (PDF, 4.56 MB, 47 pages)
Spanish (PDF, 1.03 MB, 44 pages)

1/2003: Indigenous Poverty: An Issue of Rights and Needs (48 pages)

3-4/2002: Indigenous Peoples in Urban Areas (72 pages)

2/2002: Bolivia - part 1 (35 pages); part 2 (29 pages)

1/2002: International Processes - part 1 (35 pages); part 2 (37 pages)

4/2001: Sustainable Development - part 1 (33 pages); part 2 (39 pages)


3/2001 Self-Determination (68 pages)

2/2001: Militarization (72 pages)

1/2001: Racism (72 pages)

4/2000: Indochina (72 pages)

3/2000: Indigenous Women (64 pages)

2/2000: Hunters and Gatherers - part 1 (47 pages); part 2 (41 pages)

1/2000: The Pacific (64 pages)

3-4/1999: Dams, Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities 

2/1999 (64 pages)

1/1999 (64 pages)

4/1998 (64 pages)

3/1998 (64 pages)

2/1998 (64 pages)

1/1998 (64 pages)

3-4/1997 (64 pages)

2/1997 (64 pages)

1/1997 (64 pages)

4/1996 (64 pages)

3/1996 (64 pages)

2/1996 (64 pages)

1/1996 (64 pages)

  IA 1993 no. 1 p. 18-24
(pdf, 5.65 MB, 7 pages)


   Newsletter no. 1
(pdf, 362 KB, 1 page)

Books

"Life is not ours" (PDF, 1.08 MB, 110 pages)

"Life is not ours" - an update (PDF, 289 KB, 31 pages)

"Life is not ours" - Update 2 (PDF, 276 KB, 49 pages)

"Life is not ours" - Update 3 (PDF, 220 KB, 31 pages)

"Life is not ours" - Update 4 (PDF, 1 MB, 75 pages)

Indigenous Peoples and the local Government. Building Good Governance in the Philippines (PDF, 3.8 MB, 88 pages)

The Aché Indians: Genocide in Paraguay (PDF, 13.9 MB, 82 pages)

The Aché: Genocide Continues in Paraguay (PDF, 5.75 MB, 33 pages)

The UN Special Rapporteur
English version (PDF, 8.5 MB, 56 pages)
Spanish version (PDF, 8.7 MB, 56 pages)
French version (PDF, 8.6 MB, 56 pages)

Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Niger - February 2006
English version (PDF, 569 KB, 71 pages)
French version (PDF, 583 KB, 75 pages)

 

Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Namibia - July - August 2005

English version (PDF, 797 KB, 135 pages)
French version (PDF, 839 KB, 153 pages)

Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Mission to the Republic of Botswana - June 2005
English version (PDF, 757 KB, 113 pages)
French version (PDF, 591 KB, 119 pages)

Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Research and Information Visit to the Republic of Burundi, March-April 2005
English version (PDF, 260 KB, 35 pages)
French version (PDF, 249 KB, 36 pages)

Report of the African Commission's Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities
Research and Information Visit to the Republic of Congo, September 2005
English version (PDF, 203 KB, 39 pages)
French version (PDF, 215 KB, 40 pages)

Report of the African Commission's Working Group of Experts on Indigenous Populations/Communities
English version (PDF, 561 KB, 119 pages)
French version (PDF, 594 KB, 133 pages)

Advisory Opinion of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 
English version (PDF, 968 KB, 12 pages)
French version (PDF, 975 KB, 12 pages)

Indigenous Peoples in Africa: The Forgotten Peoples? The African Commission's work on indigenous peoples in Africa
English version (PDF, 245 KB, 29 pages)
French version (PDF, 224 KB, 21 pages)
Portuguese version (PDF, 1,04 MB, 33 pages)

Naga: A People Struggling for Self-determination (PDF, 1.23 MB, 22 pages)

A Guide to Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System (2002), Fergus MacKay  (PDF, 576 KB, 176 pages)

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (1999), Lola García-Alix (PDF, 827 KB, 112 pages)

Tribal Land Alienation in Northeast India: Laws and Land Relations (PDF, 207 KB, 31 pages)