In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by
king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth
leader and community representative, explains that he and his family
have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp
mosquitoes that have brought malaria. … Read more
The six aboriginal Australian Warrell sisters are part of the generation of stolen children who were taken from their parents and raised in a Benedictine mission to alienate them from their indigenous culture in an attempt to better assimilate them into white society.
On December 7, 2005, Silla Watt-Cloutier and sixty-two Inuit
hunters and elders from communities across Canada and Alaska filed a petition with
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.… Read more
