Latin America
Guyana court ruling violates indigenous peoples' rights
Controversial Court decision favours miners over indigenous peoples as country sinks to new low on double standards on human rights and development
On 17 January 2013, the Guyanese High Court ruled in favour of a miner who has a mining concession on titled indigenous lands. The ruling...
The UN recently deemed 2013 the “International Year of Quinoa.” Agenda Item 25 in the 66th session of the UN General Assembly calls for everyone everywhere to “focus world attention on the role that quinoa biodiversity can play, owing to the nutritional value of quinoa, in providing food security and nutrition and in the eradication of poverty.” The UN resolution goes on to “...
¡Conozca el Boletín Anual del MRI!
60 páginas con noticias de investigaciones sobre los cambios globales en las montañas. Edición 2012.
Over the last decades, medium-sized Peruvian mountain cities and their hinterlands are undergoing major restructuring due to population growth and—especially since the introduction of more neoliberal policies in the early 1990s—globalized economic development. Thereby, the resulting changes in land use especially affect the mountain valleys of the quechua altitudinal zone (2500–3500 m...
A comienzos de septiembre se desarrolló el “II Encuentro Internacional sobre Cambio Climático y Retroceso de Glaciares” en los Parques Nacionales Andinos de Lauca – Chile, Vilacota – Perú y Sajama – Bolivia; en este último tuvo lugar dicho evento, los participantes trabajaron en mesas enfocadas a diferentes temáticas y, redactaron una Declaración que exige a las autoridades de los tres países...







