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Landmark decision rules Kenya's removal of indigenous people from ancestral land illegal

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In a landmark decision, an African regional body has found the Kenyan government guilty of violating the rights of the country's indigenous Endorois community, by evicting them from their lands to make way for a wildlife reserve.

The decision, by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, creates a major legal precedent by recognising, for the first time in Africa, indigenous peoples’ rights over traditionally owned land and their right to development.

Read the full press release, download the decision and download statement from CEMIRIDE.
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Violence directed at Iraqi minorities marred poll

Iraq's ethnic and religious communities are awaiting the results of the country's most important election since the US-led invasion and one that was also marred by violence and targeted attacks against minorities. As polling closed on Sunday, Qussay Abbas, a Shabak member of the Provincial Council was gunned down by insurgents in Mosul, Iraqi Minorities Organisation (IMO) said in a statement. In the run-up to the election, there were several attacks on Christians, which community leaders stated were intended to discourage minorities from voting in the nationwide poll. Read more...

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Bolivia to host alternative climate conference in April 2010

LA PAZ, Bolivia - In April of this year Bolivian President Evo Morales is expected to officially open the First World Conference of the People on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, to coincide with the UN-declared International Day of Mother Earth. The conference can be expected to galvanize the attention and energy of minority and indigenous peoples’ rights activists throughout the region. 

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