indigenous peoples
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4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...
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11-Apr-2018 OCARU
Apuntes sobre el Informe en relación al Acuerdo Comercial entre la Unión Europea y Ecuador
El 1 de enero de 2017, Ecuador entró en el Acuerdo Comercial Multilateral de países andinos con la Unión Europea. Actualmente, Ecuador mantiene un superávit de $2.6 mil millones en exportaciones agrícolas. Sin embargo, la ventaja comparativa por parte de la Unión Europea es evidente: las importaciones de la UE crecieron el 22% en 2017 hasta los $147 millones.
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7-Mar-2018 CLOC - Vía Campesina
Chile: Pronunciamiento contra el TPP - Xawvn (reunión) de mujeres mapuche auto – convocadas
Los debates de este primer xawvn se centraron en analizar los peligros que constituye el nuevo tratado de libre comercio trans pacífico (TPP 11) el cual sería firmado el próximo 8 de marzo por la presidenta de la república junto a los otros 10 países que hacen parte de este nuevo capítulo del capital tras nacional de libre comercio contra los pueblos y la soberanía nacional.
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6-Feb-2018 Scoop
Will Labour let Waitangi Tribunal complete TPPA inquiry
Labour promised at Waitangi that it will be accountable to Maori. That promise faces a major test next week, as the Crown responds in the Waitangi Tribunal’s inquiry on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
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30-Jan-2018 Council of Canadians
Trudeau’s ’progressive’ TPP violates Indigenous rights, opposed by Māori and Mapuche peoples
Justin Trudeau’s so-called ’Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’ (CPTPP) - to be signed on March 8 in Chile - is a violation of Indigenous rights.
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22-Dec-2017 Policy Options
A role for Indigenous peoples in Canada’s trade talks
International trade has long had an impact on the livelihoods of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
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18-Oct-2017 Financial Post
Indigenous chapter critical to NAFTA despite current challenges: Bellegarde
An Indigenous chapter in NAFTA mustn’t be allowed to fall by the wayside, regardless of the challenges currently confronting negotiators, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.
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22-Aug-2017 Presse canadienne
ALÉNA: les Autochtones revendiquent leurs droits
L’inclusion d’un chapitre sur les Autochtones dans un nouvel Accord de libre-échange nord-américain (ALÉNA) pourrait nécessiter l’appui des différentes communautés autochtones aux États-Unis et au Canada, selon le chef national de l’Assemblée des Premières Nations, Perry Bellegarde.
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22-Aug-2017 Canadian Press
NAFTA chapter on Indigenous rights crucial, AFN national chief says
The push for an Indigenous chapter in a renegotiated NAFTA could require support from Indigenous Peoples south of the border as well as in Canada, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde, a main advocate for its creation.
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27-Jul-2017 Intercontinental Cry
Harsh sentencing of Aymara leader reveals the politics of criminalization in Peru
This past month, eighteen Aymara community leaders endured the final stages of a trial that had them facing up to 28 years in prison and massive fines for their alleged roles in the 2011 ‘Aymarazo’ protests against the Santa Ana silver mine on the Peru-Bolivia border.
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20-May-2017 ALAINET
El racismo como política migratoria del gobierno estadounidense
Mucho del discurso de la política migratoria es maniqueo y perverso. Se basa en estereotipos discriminatorios y tendenciosos, donde el migrante es visto como un transgresor de la ley, mientras deliberadamente se omite que es un trabajador explotado.
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28-Feb-2017 The Hindu
Protecting the rights of tribals
Even as bilateral investment treaties are strengthened, domestic legislation must be implemented.
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1-Feb-2017 OHCHR
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
The report provides an analysis of the impacts of international investment agreements on the rights of indigenous peoples.
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20-Jan-2017 E-Pao
Intensifying global crisis and conflict
On behalf of monopoly firms and local elites, imperialist states have been competing to rewrite international and national legal systems and regulations through trade and investment agreements
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11-Nov-2016 Biodiversidad en América Latina
Ecuador: CONAIE rechaza firma de TLC con Unión Europea e invita a las organizaciones sociales a sumarse a este rechazo
El presidente de la CONAIE llama a las organizaciones sociales y populares a expresar su rechazo a la firma de un acuerdo comercial con la Unión Europea el próximo viernes 11 de noviembre.
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10-Nov-2016 CIGI
Trade agreements as vectors for the Nagoya Protocol’s implementation
A growing number of trade agreements include provisions related to access to genetic resources and the sharing of the benefits that arise out of their utilization.
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27-Oct-2016 Vía Campesina
“TPP y tratados de libre comercio perjudican la vida de pueblos originarios y soberanía nacional”
En programa radial de la CNA, agricultor de Brasil y activista peruano expresan perjuicios que generan los tratados de libre comercio.
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19-Oct-2016 Telesur
Ecuador’s Indigenous leader fighting Chevron visits Dakota camp
“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to the people in Dakota,” Piaguaje told teleSUR.
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12-Oct-2016 ALAINET
Los Pueblos Indígenas del México contemporáneo: entre la resistencia organizada y la exclusión-discriminación estructural
Los pueblos indígenas encarnan dos procesos contradictorios y opuestos, pero relacionados entre sí.
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23-Sep-2016 TeleSur
Dozens of Indigenous absolved in Peru’s 2009 ’Baguazo’ massacre
Dozens of Indigenous people in Peru have been absolved of accusations that they were responsible for a massacre seven years ago that killed at least 32 people, due to intense conflict triggered by the country’s free trade agreements.
