http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5440?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SurvivalInternational+%28Survival+International%29
The futuristic story of an indigenous tribe living in harmony with nature and facing the decimation of their community and their ancestral lands by aggressive invaders is not only a fantasy.
Like the Na’vi of ‘Avatar’, the world’s last-remaining tribal peoples – from the Amazon to Siberia – are also at risk of extinction, as their lands are appropriated by powerful forces for profit-making reasons such as colonization, logging and mining.
Like the Na’vi, tribal peoples are discriminated against by a world that believes them to be backward because they do not aspire to the ways of life of industrialized countries and often choose to rely, as they have done for millennia, on their natural environments to survive.
Just as the Na’vi describe the forest of Pandora as ‘their everything’, for most tribal peoples, life and land have always been deeply connected.
Many tribal peoples believe that a sustainable attitude to the caretaking of the earth is essential. It is ironic that while the Arctic melts, the seas rise, the rainforests burn – as ecosystems are damaged beyond repair – so the peoples with a detailed understanding of them are also threatened, such as the Jarawa, who inhabit the Andaman Islands’ last remaining tracts of virgin rainforest.
Survival names winner of ‘Greenwashing Award’ 2010
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5436
The company, Yaguarete Porá S.A., has won the award for ‘dressing up the wholesale destruction of a huge area of the Indians’ forest as a noble gesture for conservation’.
Plans submitted by Yaguarete to Paraguay’s Environment Ministry reveal that the amount of ‘continuous forest’ in the reserve will be just 16,784 hectares out of the 78,549 hectares total, and the company in fact plans to convert around two thirds of the land to cattle ranching.
Some of the Totobiegosode have already been contacted and vehemently condemned the plans for the ‘reserve’, pointing out that it violates their rights under both Paraguayan and international law. The contacted Totobiegosode have been claiming legal title to this land since 1993, but most of it is still in private hands.
The Totobiegosode are the only uncontacted Indians in the world having their territory destroyed for beef production.
Global advertising campaign exposes malice of Botswana government
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5415
The ‘Defying logic’ ads draw attention to the government’s refusal to allow the Bushmen access to a water borehole on their lands, forcing them to make up to 300 mile round trip journeys to fetch water from outside the CKGR. At the same time, the government is drilling new boreholes for wildlife and has given the go ahead for a safari lodge complete with swimming pool for tourists in the Reserve, which opened last month.
Bangladesh: Rape and repression continue, despite promises of peace
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5438?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SurvivalInternational+%28Survival+International%29
Jumma activist Subir Chakma said, ‘Our girls and women are not safe. They cannot go to schools, they cannot go to the rivers to fetch water or to take baths, they cannot go to their work, they cannot go to the temples, they cannot visit their relatives, they cannot go to the market places, they cannot go to the nearby jungles, they cannot work in the paddy fields, and now they cannot even stay home, they are raped everywhere.’
MIDEAST: Israel Crushes Local Dissent, Attacks Global Criticism
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50042
Several recent incidents have dominated media headlines, including the arrest of a Jewish-American journalist on the grounds of security, threats by an Israeli minister against international diplomats and the arrest of Israeli and Palestinian peace activists.
The raid on a foreign activist’s home in Ramallah, supposedly under full Palestinian control, by a large Israel Defence Forces (IDF) contingent allegedly for a visa infringement, and her subsequent arrest at gunpoint and deportation has also raised eyebrows.
"We will not allow a situation where every country will kick us. If there will be an attack on Israel, we will leave all options open, including the expulsion of ambassadors," Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon said on Saturday.
"We do not want to argue with anyone, but we will not sit idly by," he added. Ayalon’s outburst followed, amongst other incidents, a much publicised political confrontation with Turkey over a Turkish TV programme critical of Israel.
This outburst led Israeli analyst and journalist Zvi Barel to comment acerbically in the Israeli daily Haaretz, "Britain wants to boycott Israeli goods? We'll summon the British ambassador and have him sit on a bed of nails’’.
"The United States handles the settlements unfairly? We'll point an unloaded gun at the American ambassador's head and pull the trigger, just to scare him. We're not murderers. We're just trying to frighten, which, as is well known, creates respect. Just ask the Godfather," was Barel’s scathing comment.
Furthermore, Haaretz recently broke a story over the extent of Israel’s political blackmail of the Palestinian Authority (PA) over last year’s Goldstone report, which has received unanimous support internationally, and highlighted how sensitive the Jewish state is to negative publicity.
Floods force hundreds from their homes in Gaza
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=87809
The Israeli government has so far not commented on allegations that Israel opened dams in Gaza valley, exacerbating flooding in the Strip.
LABOUR-ICELAND: Centre Gives Leg Up to Listless Youth
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50043
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http://globalhealth.change.org/blog/view/wireless_providers_respond_to_pressure_on_haiti
Baha'i International Community rejects allegations that arrested Baha'is had weapons in homes
9 January 2010 - re Iran
http://www.bahai-egypt.org/2010/01/iran-another-wave-of-false-outrageous.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BahaiFaithInEgypt+%28Baha%27i+Faith+in+Egypt+%26+Iran%29
allegations lodged against the Baha'is by Iran's government
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