Bloody events that defends against the forest ecology of Olancho IN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

The journalist Eva Sanchis of EL DIARIO of New York issued this report about the bloody wave that loggers are making in the Forest of Olancho in Honduras. October 2007.

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Pictures Paul Carbajal / Olancho forests 250 km / Tegucigalpa Honduras, are devastated by loggers.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said EFE, Honduras sued for failing to comply with its recommendations in the murder case of the environmentalist White Jeannette Kawas in February 1995 in the town of Tela.

The complaint was filed on February 4 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court HR), headquartered in San Jose (Costa Rica), reported yesterday the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/especiales/detail.aspx?EspecialId=63&id=1821696

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The United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a first step towards ending a history of cruelty originated by colonialism and globalization.

General Assembly 2007.13 September. Miguel Ibanez HABITAT PRO ASSOCIATION ONG. Decade Committee of Peoples Indígenas.UN The September 13 is undoubtedly a historic day for Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations General Assembly with 144 votes in favour, 4 against and 11 abstentions voted for the adoption of the Declaration of Indigenous Peoples. This document drafted by the Working Group for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was deliberate for more than 20 years and was one of the most discussed documents in the history of the United Nations and represents a historic milestone and legal to end more than 500 years of cruelty and genocide.

Bill of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

http://www.un.org/ (PDF_MULTI_LENGUAJE).

How we produce potatoes. In the Bolivian Altiplano.

by Julia Yana
Secretary of International Relations. Bartolina Sisa
National Organization of Rural Women in Bolivia
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FOREST OF ZARATE:  RESERVES ECOLOGICAL COMMUNAL. 

The Farmer Community of San Bartolomé, Province of Huarochirí. Peru, has declared as Communal Ecological Reserve the area that includes the called FOREST OF ZARATE, 3000 m, to conserve its animal species and endemic flora that constitute a national and world patrimony.

Bosque de Zárate (PDF_Brochure_HabitatPro)

72% of the Peruvian Amazon is covered with oil and gas concessions.

Milagros Salazar wrote in the newspaper La Republica, Lima, Peru, August 16, 2008.

Peru is the Latin American country that has given a grant most of its Amazon for oil and gas projects, reveals a study conducted by two U.S. organizations and researchers from Duke University. The data is surprising at first glance: 72% of the Peruvian jungle, 49 million hectares, is covered by hydrocarbon lots. For these institutions, the concessions granted threaten biodiversity and the rights of indigenous peoples.

"The case of Peru is the most alarming," said The Republic to the researcher who led the study, Dr. Matt Finer of Save americas's Forests, an organization together experts from Land is Life conducted the analysis.

One proof of this, said Milagros Salazar, which was published in a specialist journal of free access:

PloSONE.(http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932).

http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/238343/483/

The 16th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, focusing on the thematic issues of Agriculture, Rural development, Land, Drought, Desertification, and Africa concluded on 16 May 2008.

Climate change and indigenous peoples:
Statement by  Miguel Ibanez.

Doctor in Geography at the Mayor San Marcos National University, Lima – Peru.  Quechua Community  of the Tauria Community- Arequipa representative. Habitat ProAssociation adviser. NGO Committee on the International Decade of the Wold’s Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations member.

The Climate Change has a clear political cause and a social consequence, but after two decades of global warming, the same recipes and programs that have collapsed in the past are being practiced without a significant reduction of gas emissions, deforestation, wasted energy and food, electronics and nuclear waste and finally a profound insensitivity and lack of respect to Mother Nature.

Climate change is affecting the phenology of plants causing an impoverishment of the soil and reduced harvests. On the other hand the increased evaporation does not allow greater seepage of water into groundwater by reducing the performance of specific streams that in Quechua language are called "Puquios."

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