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Climate displacement threatens Indigenous Guna people in Panama: HRW
In a 52-page report on Monday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said “ongoing government delays” pose a serious threat to the human rights of Panama’s Indigenous Guna people. According to the group ...
Smithsonian Magazine1mon
Experience Panama’s Ancestral Indigenous Cultures
In fact, Panama is one of only three countries in the world to hold a carbon negative status. And it also happens to be home to seven Indigenous Peoples (Naso, Ngäbe, Buglé, Guna, Bri Bri ...
Mongabay News on MSN10d
In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation
Isidrio Hernandez-Ruiz has a soft spot for the bright yellow flowers of the guayacan trumpet tree (Tabebuia guayacan), a ...
Morning Star7d
Call for papal intervention as Panama's repression of mass strikes escalates
INDIGENOUS groups in Panama called on the Pope to intervene at the weekend to protect them from “systematic and violent ...
Science News2y
How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas
The Indigenous Guna people have occupied these Caribbean islands since around the mid-1800s, when they abandoned the coastal jungle area near what is now the Panama-Colombia border to establish ...
Anthropocene Magazine on MSN4d
To protect rainforests, do people need to be kept out?
A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...
NPR4mon
Why are so many Indigenous Panamanians contracting HIV — and dying of AIDS?
He is one of an estimated 2,500 people in Panama's Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous territory thought to be living with HIV, which has been described by lead epidemiology researchers as an "uncontrolled ...
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Threatened by rising seas, the first of Panama’s Indigenous islanders are forced to leave
living in an area that straddles Colombia and Panama, forced to flee around 300 years ago from Spanish conquerors and conflict with other Indigenous groups. Now, the very ocean the Guna people ...
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‘No Repression Can Stop us,’ say Panamanian Workers
The Panamanian workers’ strike enters another week and is gaining more support despite police and judicial pressure from the ...
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Indigenous Peoples
Examples include the National Indigenous Peoples Development Plan Project in Panama and the Tripura Rural Economic Growth and Service Delivery Project in India. At the same time, in World Bank ...
EFE1y
Indigenous people block main Panama route demanding improvements in communities
San Juan Oriente, Panama, Aug 7 (EFE).- Members of the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous people on Monday blocked the Inter-American Highway (IAH) – which crosses all of Panama connecting the country with ...
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How Indigenous Stewards Are Helping Save Guna Yala, Panama
Almost all the 32,000 people who live on its 49 inhabited ... director of the Indigenous Tourism Network of Panama, told me on an October visit to Gardi Sugdub (Crab Island).