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"Mujeres Aymaras y Comunicacion" organized a meeting of women in Peru and Bolivia who produce radio programs for women about issues that women and especially indigenous women face.

The Worldwide Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Rain Forests held their second conference in Peru which focused on indigenous autonomy.

A summary of the process and support that led to the establishment of the "International Decade of the World's Indigenous People" during the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights that took place June 1993.

A demonstration of how indigenous peoples find themselves victims of conflicts between the Armed Forces and the guerrilla groups in Columbia.

Indigenous Biodiversity Network(BioIndio) is an international group formed in October 1993 to help indigenous peoples take stronger positions on the effort of biodiversity protection.

The Peabody coal mine destroyed homes and sacred sites of the Hopi and Dineh peoples of southwest North America and continue to do so without penalties for invalid permits.

CONDEG member Marco Choco Darnas was detained by soldiers on his way to Guatemala City.

The establishment of a Pan-American highway through the rain forest to connect Colombia and Panama(Plan Pacifico) threatens extreme ecological damage. Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities are banding together to oppose the plan.

The following article is a list of issues to be addressed by the congress meeting in response to the massacre of the Ashaninka indigenous peoples in the village of Mazamari

This article is about the Brazilian Federal Court of Appeals upholding the rights of indigenous peoples in case between the Indigenous Rights Core and Parachi Maginco and Impar timber companies.

Victor Hugo Cardenas election as vice-president of Bolivia on June 7, 1993 inspires hope in the indigenous populations.

NAFTA could endanger national laws that protect Indigenous land rights if the the NAFTA tribunal decides the legal protection of ancient land rights is a barrier to trade. Indigenous peoples could be removed from their land to make way for trade…