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August 09, 2010
For most of us, access to clean water and adequate land for food cultivation is taken for granted, and yet many of the 350 Million indigenous people world-wide are deprived of these basic resources.
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May 2010
Eight months after the disturbances in Urumqi of July 2009 the real extent of the sometimes violent conflicts between Uyghurs, Han Chinese and the government security forces is still not clear. China’s authorities refuse all independent investigations into what happened, the background and the consequences of the most serious conflict for decades in Xinjiang (East Turkestan).
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March 30, 2010
All members of the multi-ethnic committee of the STP section Kurdistan/Iraq gave information to the Greens politician Claudia Roth at a personal meeting on the situation of the minorities in Iraq. The meeting coordinated by the two STP officers Dr Masud Siany and Dr Yousif Dzayi lasted two hours, attended by members of the German General Consulate, took place on Monday evening in the German Consulate in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous federal province of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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 Parvez on trial, June 1, 2008
July 23, 2008
"Death by hanging"is the sentence for Parvez Kaambakhsh. The young Afghan student of journalism was accused of "blasphemy”. With the sentence, which was pronounced on 23rd January 2008 it is above all his brother who to be intimidated. He is also a journalist critical of the regime.
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| Expert on indigenous peoples Yvonne Bangert of the Society for Threatened Peoples about the "Sorry" of the Australian Gouvernment |
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February 15, 2008
Hier finden Sie das Interview zum Anhören im mp3-Format
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September 25, 2007
Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks are demonstrating in Burma for democracy and the overthrow of the military junta. They have even been calling for the "excommunication” of the ruling generals, declaring that they are no longer prepared to accept donations of food or money. Since the Buddhists traditionally look to earning rewards with these gifts for their next life the monks are exercising a very effective punishment with their refusal.
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September 22, 2007
Open Day
Saturday, 22 September 2007,
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
at Geiststr. 7 in Göttingen
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July 24, 2007
The Thai military announced to continue forced repatriations of Lao Hmong refugees within the next two months. A resettlement of the refugees in Thailand or to third countries was ruled out categorically. In Laos the Hmong might have to face persecution, arbitrary imprisonment, torture – or even death.
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July 18, 2007
The Christian Copts in Egypt are more and more often attacked by their Muslim neighbors. In the attacks they were beaten; some of their houses and businesses were burnt down. Time and again Copts are being killed in the assaults. They have to face discrimination by the state, too: They do not have equal access to education or jobs, and building churches is also extremely restricted.
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March 2007
Indigenous peoples suffer from climate change and exploitation of resources
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February 2007
Indigenous peoples
Around 735.000 indigenous people are living in Brazil.
These indigenous peoples are living in different ways: some are living in their own areas, some are living in the city, others are not been contacted yet and live completely isolated. There are also persons who are just now identifying themselves as indigenous people.
They are divided in 235 different peoples and staying in 24 of the 27 states of Brazil.
At the moment there are still 170 different languages spoken by these peoples.
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The head of the Chaldaean Church, Emmanuel III Delly was born in Telkaif on 6th October 1927 in the so-called Nineve Plain not far from the provincial capital of Mosul in central Iraq . The Patriarch was christened Karim Geries Mourad Delly. On completion of his studies in Mosul and Rome he was ordained priest on 21st December 1952.
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The magazine provides regular and up-to-date reports on persecuted ethnic and religious minorities, nationalities and indigenous peoples throughout the world. There is no comparable medium in the German-speaking world. The magazine has been published by the GfbV since 1970.
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