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For Land and Life: 25 stories of indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013

6th Jan 2014
With the sheer number of abuses and attacks that Indigenous Peoples face around the world, we don't often come by stories of hope and resilience. Here's a few that you might have missed over the past 12 months. (John Ahni Schertow / Intercontinental Cry)

WTO and Indigenous Peoples: resisting globalization, asserting self-determination

3rd Dec 2013
Declaration by the Indigenous Peoples written during a Indigenous Conference - an event running parallel to 9th Ministerial Conference (MC 9) of the World Trade Organization.

Malaysian tribe ends protest as mega-dam floods their homes

3rd Dec 2013
About 100 Malaysian tribespeople were forced to end a three-month blockade of a dam after rising waters threatened to flood their homes in Borneo, activists said Tuesday. (Malay Mail Online)

The Mexican village that got itself talking

15th Oct 2013
The Mexican village of Talea de Castro has long been ignored by Mexico's mobile phone companies as too remote to put on their networks, but as the BBC's Will Grant reports, they have responded by building their own. (BBC)

When bad development happens to good people

19th Sep 2013
The development of industrial-scale agriculture may be helping Cambodia to increase its exports and improve its economy, but the local villagers say it provides little benefit to them. (Lei Win / Thomson Reuters Foundation)

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