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A new report on minorities and indigenous people by the London-based human rights group, Minority Rights Group International (MRG), warns that the global 'intensification' in the exploitation of natural resources is leading to mounting conflicts for the world's 370 million indigenous people. Meanwhile, as Brazil prepares to host soccer's World Cup in two years' time, members of Amazonian tribes are complaining of the destruction of their historic sites to make way for football facilities - and car parks. And the search for new mineral resources has displaced native peoples in China, Cambodia, Canada, and elsewhere.
The world's estimated 370 million native peoples are often the most marginalized members of society, with the least access to education, health, politics, and economic opportunity. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, what lies ahead for them?
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Small farmers and indigenous groups in the Philippines have been struggling for decades against big companies, corrupt officials and influential families to get land once promised to them.
The land-hungry business interests are dangerous adversaries for small indigenous groups in the Philippines. In the past, they have not shied away from politically-motivated murder, violent intimidation and brutal kidnappings. Human rights activists, who support the small farmers, live in constant fear.
Despite death threats and actual attacks, activists like Jessielyn Colegado from the indigenous group, PADATA, continue to fight for the rights of poor Filipinos. Colegado, a mother of five children, is demanding the return of land that once belonged to her ancestors. A rancher named Ernesto Villalon refuses to leave, even though he has no tenant or lease agreement for the land.
Jessielyn Colegado and other activists have been the targets of Villalon's security guards. "They threaten us and burn our houses down. They kill our people and steal everything we own. They want us to go away," she says.
Author: Gero Simone /gb
Editor: Sarah Berning
Deutsche welle
A new report on minorities and indigenous people by the London-based human rights group, Minority Rights Group International (MRG), warns that the global 'intensification' in the exploitation of natural resources is leading to mounting conflicts for the world's 370 million indigenous people. Meanwhile, as Brazil prepares to host soccer's World Cup in two years' time, members of Amazonian tribes are complaining of the destruction of their historic sites to make way for football facilities - and car parks. And the search for new mineral resources has displaced native peoples in China, Cambodia, Canada, and elsewhere.
The world's estimated 370 million native peoples are often the most marginalized members of society, with the least access to education, health, politics, and economic opportunity. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, what lies ahead for them?
...........................
Small farmers and indigenous groups in the Philippines have been struggling for decades against big companies, corrupt officials and influential families to get land once promised to them.
The land-hungry business interests are dangerous adversaries for small indigenous groups in the Philippines. In the past, they have not shied away from politically-motivated murder, violent intimidation and brutal kidnappings. Human rights activists, who support the small farmers, live in constant fear.
Despite death threats and actual attacks, activists like Jessielyn Colegado from the indigenous group, PADATA, continue to fight for the rights of poor Filipinos. Colegado, a mother of five children, is demanding the return of land that once belonged to her ancestors. A rancher named Ernesto Villalon refuses to leave, even though he has no tenant or lease agreement for the land.
Jessielyn Colegado and other activists have been the targets of Villalon's security guards. "They threaten us and burn our houses down. They kill our people and steal everything we own. They want us to go away," she says.
Author: Gero Simone /gb
Editor: Sarah Berning
Deutsche welle