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Representatives of the Miskito organization, MISATAN, founded in July, 1984, were in attendance at the WCIP conference. The representatives invited the conference parti- cipants to visit Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica in order to gain a clear…

Representatives of the Nicaraguan government and of the Miskitu Misurasata organization met to find peaceful resolutions to the conflict between them.

Indigenous peoples along the Rio Coco that splits the countries of Honduras and Nicaragua have been subjugated to unequal land and resource agreements. Because of the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan civil war, indigenous peoples in the area…

Indigenous peoples along the Rio Coco that splits the countries of Honduras and Nicaragua have been subjugated to unequal land and resource agreements. Because of the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan civil war, indigenous peoples in the area…

At least 20 Miskitu Indians were killed in Nicaragua by a group of recontras most likely looking for boots and food

Logging which has been damaging to Indigenous communities of the North Atlantic Atonomous Zone has ceased, leading to greater control of there constitutional right to their lands.

Nimia Apaza, an Indigenous Kolla lawyer in northern Argentina (General Coordinator and Lawyer for the
Jujuy Native Council of Organizations), challenged Argentine social welfare minister Herminio Gomez
regarding his explanation of infant mortality…

The Inter-American Indian Institute was founded in Patzcuaro, Mexico, in 1940 and now functions under the auspices of the Organization of American States.

Western influences and pushes for tourist development have pushed many Garifuna people off their lands and changed the relationship people have to each other and the land. The government has favored capitalist interests leading to hardships for many…

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