Forests in Chile are an essential part of the Mapuche way of life and culture. According to official statistics, Chile is in fact planting more trees and forests than are being destroyed. However, the definition of what constitutes a ‘forest’ is key for the Mapuche people. The new ’forests‘ being planted are typically pine monocultures, which do not mimic the original...
Forests in Chile are an essential part of the Mapuche way of life and culture. According to official statistics, Chile is in fact planting more trees and forests than are being destroyed. However,...
In a bid to gain recognition of its independent status from more States, Kosovo has been hosting many cultural events and music festivals, such as the ‘Listen’ music festival, through...
One hundred tons of United Nations emergency aid arrived in Erbil, Iraq yesterday to help stem the growing humanitarian crisis in northern part of the country. The UN hopes to provide relief to the...
A crisis has been averted as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippine Government have agreed on a final draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which is the main legal mechanism for...
On Sunday, August 10, 52 year old Duran Babu Chakma died while in custody of the Bangladeshi armed forces. Chakma was an advocate for autonomy for the indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Below...
On Monday, August 18, the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia Nicholas Kay stated that ’tremendous’ progress had been made by the people and government of Somaliland in the last couple...
Demonstrations by the Khmer Krom outside of the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh were ordered to stop by Cambodia’s Foreign Minister. The demonstrations were sparked by a Vietnamese statement regarding...
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) criticized the Nigerian Federal Government’s lacking implementation of measures to save the Ogoni environment. Three years have passed since...
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