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The first Pan American Health Orgnaization Conference was held April 13-18, 1993, focusing on indigenous health issues. The meeting discussed a range of Indigenous health conserns ranging from the gravity of helath crisis in Native communities to the…

A subsidiary of Canada Tiomin Rsources threatens Ngobe-Bugle land with the opening of a copper mine.

400 armed militants attack and kill local Indians.

A bill on industrial property rights was proposed by the federal administration of Brazil. If this bill is passed, Brazil may have to pay royalties on resources and life forms that are native to its territory and can only be found there.

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

CONAIE has condemned the treatment of indigenous communities at the hands of paramilitary groups near Veracruz.

In Peru where .over 50% of the population is Indian, national perspectives are increasingly worse.

Reports reaching us at SAIIC indicate increasing violence and escalating abuse of human rights in Peru.

The violence in Peru continues to escalate, and Indian people, along with many others, suffer...

Peruvian Indians are in the midst of a major crisis that is reason for renewed solidarity with their struggle against ethnocidal forces.