Month: February 2008
Indigenous Rights and the Mayan Victory in Belize
Source: The Dominion On 18 October 2007, the Supreme Court of Belize ruled in Cal v. Attorney General that the national government must recognize the indigenous Mayans’ customary tenure to land and refrain from any […]
Ascendant Copper Loses Mining Concessions in Ecuador
Ecuador’s government announced on Friday that it was revoking Ascendant Copper‘s mining concessions for the controversial Junin Project. “As an Intag resident, I am ecstatic to be rid of a source of conflict that was tearing our communities apart,” said Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag.
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Bolivia: Morales Reaches Two-Year Milestone
Exalted by the success of his social programmes, but harassed by opponents who are threatening to declare de facto autonomy in four of Bolivia’s nine departments, indigenous President Evo Morales completes two years of his mandate on Tuesday, a milestone the country’s three previous presidents failed to reach. […]