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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.

Petroleum extraction by oil companies has caused extensive damage to the Ecuadorian Amazon and as a result local indigenous populations have suffered the most. Oil rights have changed control often in Ecuador, but policy makers have yet to address…

Concerns about the impact of the Human Genome Diversity Project on Indigenous Peoples are raised. No indigenous representatives or organizations have been included in the planning of the project. Misuse of information gathered during the project has…

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.

CONIC reaffirms its policies of denouncing human rights violations and support the people of Chiapas who have been the victims of violence.

Luis Donaldo Colosio, a candidate of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, was assassinated.

Zapatista leaders assert that indigenous communities have the right to autonomy.

Violence continues to rage in Chiapas , though a dialogue between the Mexican government and the Zapatistas.

This article is an abbreviated report of the second meeting of Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples, Nations and Organizations that took place at Temoaya, Mexico on October 8-13, 1993 and the article outlines the goals the organization wishes…

An introduction to an abbreviated report of the second meeting of Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples, Nations and Organizations that took place at Temoaya, Mexico on October 8-13, 1993 and the article outlines the goals the organization…

On September 16, 1993, the Wichi Ka Puce Hi Cooperative of Argentina initiated a week long hunger strike in protest of the government's Land Commission until President Carlos Menem agreed to meet

Indigenous communities face violence at the hands of mining companies. Murders under investigation by the Indigenous Advisory Mission.