Venezuela recognizes more than 900 thousand hectares to indigenous peoples.

14/08/2008 ABN Caracas, Capital District

	Caracas, Aug 14. ABN (Jorge Medina Lugo) .- Venezuela began the process of demarcation and titling of the lands of 35 indigenous peoples that make life in their territory, thus becomes the first country in Latin americas claimed that their original inhabitants. Indigenous Guaicaipurom, Jivi, Wayuu, Bari and Yukpa and the mountains of Perija 'in Venezuela arerecovering their ancestral territories.
	Thus, the Venezuelan State gives a historical debt that for centuries has held with the communities and indigenous peoples, which ensures their active participation in thelife of the nation, the preservation of their culture and the exercise of self-determination its internal affairs and the conditions that make them possible. Source: http://www.abn.info.ve/ http://www.servindi.org/archivo/2008/4481

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United Nations celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous People observed at UN Headquarters on Friday 8 August 2008.
Indigenous Peoples asked not only reconciliation but recognition and respect to the land, territories and languages to the states.

"Opening words of panel moderator, Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation (partial transcription) by First Peoples Human Rights Coalition" Barbara James Zinder, Oren Lyon, Nation Onondaga (Haudenosaunee)" was Panel Discussion: Conciliation and Reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and States Part of the New Human Rights Dialogue Series, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

Hari Paul Normandin, Representative UN, Canadá, said: In june 2008, Prime Minister Harper of Canadá offered an apology former students of Indian residential schools still living, to their family members and theirs communities. The government of Canada is not thinking right now sign the Declaration.

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Shipibos of the Rio Ucayali rescue to a manatee baby and they put it to save. 24 Jul 2008.
Text and picture by Pro & Contra - Journal Regional Loreto – Peru.

Villagers Contamana are happy because it has reached a new member: A baby manatee, also known as Cow Marina or Siren river. This species is at risk. The baby manatee was transferred to the farm Sub Cafae place where there is a gap of half a hectare with fish and chelonians. The manatee was separated from his mother by a fishing boat operating illegally in Ucayali.   Indigenous Shipibos managed to rescue the manatee and make it safe.

New Global Soil Database. Soil Database Win-Win options for Climate Change Mitigation and Food Production.

21 July 2008, Rome – A new database on the world’s soils improves knowledge of the current and future land productivity as well as the present carbon storage and carbon sequestration potential of the world’s soils. It helps to identify land and water limitations, and assist in assessing the risks of land degradation, particularly soil erosion risks, said FAO today. Contact: Alison Small, News Office.

NEWS, 21 July 2008 - www.fao.org

Konishi Saturu handed to Habitat Pro Association the story of how he suffered the consequences of the atomic bombs of plutonium and enriched uranium on August 6 and 9, 1945 dropped by the U.S. Army of America on these cities. Thus was sealed an alliance of peace between a representative of the survivors and our organization: Hiroshima and Nagasaki never again.

I am Konishi Saturu an A-bomb survivor of Hiroshima. I have only fragmentary memories of the bombing. Out of the intense shock I suffered on the day following the bombing from walking the devastated city, I lost almost all memory, especially of the first 2 days, as well as the following weeks.

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Canada says 'sorry' for indigenous abuse.

Canada's prime minister has officially apologized to tens of thousands of natives for more than a century of abuses at boarding schools set up to assimilate indigenous peoples. "The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly. We are sorry", Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 11 June, 2008.

The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly.

Beginning in 1874, 150,000 Indian, Inuit and Metis children in Canada were forcibly enrolled in the 132 boarding schools run by Christian churches on behalf of the federal government in an effort to integrate them into society.

http://news.staging.sbs.com.au/

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Japan Officially Recognizes Ainu. 

TOKYO, Jun 11 (IPS) - In a historic breakthrough Japan's Diet has unanimously passed a resolution pressing the government to recognize the Ainu as indigenous people. "We are thrilled", said a tearful Tadashi Sato, director of the Ainu Cultural Centre in Hokkaido. "This is the first time the government has recognized us as indigenous people. We appreciate it."

The resolution calls on Japan to officially recognized them as a people with a unique culture and language and promote policies to address their problems.
There are about 200,000 Ainu living throughout Japan though most are on the northern most island of Hokkaido.

http://www.ainumosir2008.com/en/news.html

http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/IEW/ainu.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people

Ainu, First People of Japan Video on YouTube

http://www.ainumosir2008.com/img/NibutaniDeclaration-S.pdf (Español)

RIGHTS-JAPAN: Ainu People to Press Demanded at G8 Summit.

TOKYO, Apr 28 (IPS) - Japan's hosting of the G8 summit in Hokkaido in July will afford a rare opportunity for the Ainu people who live on the island to press their long-standing demand to be recognized as an indigenous people. Officially, for the Jul 7-9 summit of rich nations, Japan’s leaders have said they would like to see global health high on the agenda as also sustainable forest development, climate change and development. But the Ainu have other plans to roll out in Hokkaido at the Jul 1-4 Indigenous Peoples Summit, ahead of the G8 event.