Indigenous Peoples

Venezuelan Government Accelerates Yukpa Land Demarcation but Tension Remains (Venezuelanalysis.com)

30 Aug 2008

Mérida, August 28, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Responding to President Chávez’s instructions last Sunday, Venezuelan government officials promised this week to accelerate the granting of land titles to Yukpa indigenous communities who have occupied private estates to demand their constitutional right to ancestral lands.

Survey: Many Wash. farmworkers indigenous Mexicans (AG Weekly)

29 Aug 2008

SEATTLE - Indigenous Mexicans make up nearly a quarter of the farmhands who pick the apples, cherries and other crops in western Washington, a new survey has found.

U.N. publishes Resource Kit on Indigenous People's Issues (First Perspective)

29 Aug 2008

The United Nations and several of its departments including ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA and SCBD has published the Resource Kit on Indigenous Peoples Issues.