81. Indigenous Peoples And Sustainable Development indigenous peoples andSustainable DevelopmentThe Role of theInterAmerican Development BankIDB Forum of the AmericasApril 8th, 1997Anne DeruyttereWashington, D.C.October 1997 No. also the areas http://www.iadb.org/SDS/doc/IND-97101E.PDF

82. Base OF OF GENERAL REPORTS). 1. Report on the situation of human rights ofindigenous peoples in guatemala (1993). 2. Report on the situation http://www.cidh.oas.org/Indigenas/TOC.htm

OEA/Ser.L/V/II.108 Doc. 62 20 October 2000 Original: Spanish THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE RIGHTS ... Next

83. MSN Encarta - Native Americans Of Middle And South America countries, including Mexico, guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It is oftenvery difficult to distinguish people who are of pure indigenous ancestry from http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509044/Native_Americans_of_Middle_and_Sou

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84. Indigenous People In Latin America 54.0 38 24 14 Ecuador 29.5 23 na 14 guatemala 42.0 26 79 socioeconomic conditionsof Latin America s indigenous population, see indigenous People and Poverty http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn007.html

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA HRO DISSEMINATION NOTES Human Resources Development and Operations Policy Number 8, June 7, 1993 Indigenous people make up a large and distinct portion of Latin America's population. There are about 40 million indigenous people in Latin America, or about 10 percent of the total population. In some countries, the majority of the population is indigenous. In Bolivia, for example, more than half of the total population is indigenous. It is well known that indigenous people are in an inferior economic and social position vis-a-vis the non-indigenous, or "mainstream," population. Yet not much documentation exists regarding their exact position. As a first step, obtaining reliable estimates of the indigenous population is a necessity. This would provide the vital information needed in designing strategies to target operations and to assist in designing poverty reduction strategies. Operationalization of the term "indigenous people" is a difficult task. A report recently published by the United Nation's Latin American Demographic Center (1992. Demo- graphic Bulletin. No. 50.) compiled summary statistics on indigenous people from the national census data collected in a number of Latin American countries. The CELADE report discusses the various approaches used, along with their strengths and weaknesses. The most commonly used approaches are: language spoken, self-perception, and geographic concentration. Guatemala Census

85. Maya, Indigenous People Of Mexico And Central America: Colonial-Period Maya Only in a few coastal regions of guatemala and Chiapas were plantations Relatedcontent from HighBeam Research on Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0859548.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Father's Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central America Colonial-Period Maya For the remaining groups, the Spanish conquest led to the imposition of Catholicism and the establishment of various European forms of political organization. Although this imposition was not completely effective, Spaniards either eliminated or incorporated the indigenous elite into the new colonial system, leaving the Maya-speaking population a relatively undifferentiated mass of rural peasants. Administrative centers, inhabited largely by Spaniards, were established in the 16th cent. at For the most part, the Maya region was peripheral to the Spanish American colonies because the lack of mineral wealth, the relatively sparse population, and the lack of land suitable for the cultivation of export crops. Taxes were collected through church tithes and through the encomienda system. Only in a few coastal regions of Guatemala and Chiapas were plantations established for the cultivation of coffee and sugar. But even these were difficult to maintain, owing to the prevalence of malaria and other tropical diseases in lowland areas and the difficulties involved in extracting labor from adjacent highland areas, where slowly increasing numbers of Maya led relatively autonomous lives.

86. The My Hero Project - Rigoberta Menchú Tumr_menchu She was both the first indigenous person and the youngest person ever to receivethe Nobel Peace Prize. People all over guatemala lit firecrackers, and toasted http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=r_menchu

87. COURIER-Guatemala's Tentative Peace-SPRING 1998 percent of its large indigenous population live in poverty. Foreign Minister Steindeclares that, guatemala is a very rich country with a lot of poor people. http://courier.stanleyfoundation.org/articles/1998spring1.html

BACK TO COURIER ONLINE PHOTO BY PEDRO COTE/UNDP A Headstart. Avilio Ysidro Porras is making the transition to civilian life after seventeen years in the Guatemalan military. A vilio Ysidro Porras is making a career change. The 32-year-old is studying to be a hairdresser in Guatemala's capital city. That's not unusual unless you consider that for the past seventeen years Porras served as an explosives expert first for the Guatemalan army and then for a police unit infamous for human rights atrocities. Clad in a white hairdresser's smock, but still wearing his black army boots, Porras is emblematic of Guatemala's struggle to return to normalcy after thirty-six years of civil war. It was Central America's longest and bloodiest civil war and ended only in December 1996 with the signing of the final peace accords between the government and rebel troops. "Going from having fought in such a violent war between brothers to adapting to civilian life is a very difficult change," admits Porras. "My dream was always to be a soldier, and I'm proud I could fight in the war and make my country better." Now that the war is over, Porras is going into the business of hairstyling, because that's what his father did. Roots of the Conflict Guatemala's war began in 1960, six years after the CIA trained a group of dissidents who overthrew the democratically elected, but left-leaning, government of Jacobo Arbenz. For nearly four decades after that coup, Guatemala was ruled by a series of military dictatorships. In an attempt to destroy a guerrilla uprising, government forces wiped out four hundred villages; 150,000 people were killed by both sides; and an estimated one million Guatemalans out of a total population of ten million became refugees. Nearly 60 percent of Guatemalans are Mayan Indians, the most marginalized group in the country, and they were often the target of savage campaigns during the war.

88. Indigenous Cine And Video Festivals In Guatemala And Mexico Mexico. The Sixth American Festival of Film and Video of IndigenousPeoples took place in Quetaltenango, guatemala, last August. The http://www.laneta.apc.org/telemanita/bull11_art4.html

HISTORIA LOGROS VIDEO-RED MUJER ... inicio BULLETIN NO. 11 Indigenous Cine and Video Festivals in Guatemala and Mexico Women present in the festival included Magaly Meneses, Chilean filmmaker who is currently Academic Director of the International School of Communications and Television in Cuba, Carol Kalafatic, of the Film and Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in the US, and Mary Ellen Davis, of the Festival Terres en Vue, Canada. If you want to know more about this indigenous film and video festival, you can write to Maria Luisa Quezada or Ivan Sanjines en Bolivia: comaru@ceibo.entelnet.bo

89. GRAIN | BIO-IPR | 14 September 1999 Morales de los Ninos Mayas de guatemala guatemala. Rattanakanjangrii IMPECT (InterMountainPeoples Education and Indian Confederation of indigenous and Tribal http://www.grain.org/bio-ipr/?id=143

90. NDI - National Democratic Institute For International Affairs encouraged guatemala to safeguard its citizenry from human rights abuses andseek greater political participation by the country s indigenous people. http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/lac/guatemala/guatemala.asp

Bolivia Brazil Colombia Cuba ... Venezuela Regional Programs Programa de Liderazgo (Leadership Program) Civic Network Program for Regional Party Renewal Search here for: NDI publications on Guatemala NDI publications on Latin America and ... the Caribbean Latin America and the Caribbean: Guatemala Printer-friendly version Political Overview Since the United Nations sponsored the 1996 Peace Accords that brought an end to decades of civil war, Guatemalans have faced challenges in consolidating democracy. The implementation of the Accords has stalled, hampering political, economic and social reform. Citizens, particularly women and indigenous peoples, are largely disillusioned and removed from politics, leading to notably high rates of voter abstention. The 2003 general elections marked a critical moment in instilling citizen trust in Guatemala's fragile democracy. For the first time since democratic rule was restored in 1986, citizens expressed a lack of confidence in the administration of the elections, citing bias in the courts. Furthermore, political tensions increased when a 1985 constitutional provision that prohibits coup participants from seeking public office raised questions as to the application of a Constitutional Court ruling permitting retired General Efrían Ríos Montt to run as a presidential candidate. Analysts feared that the deteriorating political and electoral climate may further discourage citizens from voting.

91. UN Chronicle: Indigenous People Still Discriminated - UN Reported: News On The U indigenous people in guatemala still face racial, ethnic and cultural discriminationeven though the Government had signed a human rights agreement, reported http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_4_38/ai_87425142

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92. AllRefer Encyclopedia - Maya, Indigenous People Of Mexico And Central America : Only in a few coastal regions of guatemala and Chiapas were plantations More articlesfrom AllRefer Reference on Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/M/Maya-1-colonial-period-maya.html

AllRefer Channels :: Health Yellow Pages Reference Weather SEARCH : in Reference June 09, 2004 You are here : AllRefer.com Reference Encyclopedia South American Indigenous Peoples ... Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central America By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z M Maya, indigenous people of Mexico and Central America, South American Indigenous Peoples Related Category: South American Indigenous Peoples Maya [m I u Pronunciation Key Colonial-Period Maya The Spanish conquistadors found a number of small polities in northern YucatAn, but, on their march into Central America, encountered few inhabitants. The introduction of new diseases by the Spanish contributed to the decimation of Maya populations, leaving the region still more sparsely settled. For the remaining groups, the Spanish conquest led to the imposition of Catholicism and the establishment of various European forms of political organization. Although this imposition was not completely effective, Spaniards either eliminated or incorporated the indigenous elite into the new colonial system, leaving the Maya-speaking population a relatively undifferentiated mass of rural peasants. Administrative centers, inhabited largely by Spaniards, were established in the 16th cent. at MErida in YucatAn, San Cristobal in Chiapas, and Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. The latter was destroyed in a series of earthquakes in the 18th cent., prompting Spaniards to move the administrative center to Guatemala City.

93. Latin America Trek: Time Machine -- Guatemala Toj from Defensoria Maya, the indigenous rights organization in guatemala City. Lookdeeper at the atrocities committed against indigenous people during the 36 http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/timeguat.html

Click on the update you want to explore. A new window will open, so you can always close it and come back here! United States to Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala to Peru Peru Peru to Argentina The Team in Guatemala (February 6 - March 6, 1999) Feb 6: Guatemala - Maya Civilization Jamila and Klaus begin exploring Mayan culture with a visit to tropical Coba, the ruins of a civilization. Visit a local school, tour a traditional Mayan home, and feed a crocodile. Sacrifice a cigar and beer to the Mayan god, Maximon. Stroll through the metropolis of Guatemala City with Abeja and glimpse its history and cultural diversity. Visit five Mayan sites including Tulum and Uxmal, site of the legendary Pyramid of the Soothsayer. Feb 10: Guatemala - Its Beauty and Its Pain The gang meets their homestay families in the mountain village of Todos Santos where the houses have dirt floors. Don't worry- even though there is no electricity, the team will do its best to stay in touch. Talk with Maria Toj from Defensoria Maya

94. MediaRights the earlier Rights Alert ‘A Massacre Remembered’. Following thestruggle of the indigenous Maya Achi people of guatemala to http://www.mediarights.org/search/browse.php?cat_id=00056

95. Indigenous Cultures Of Costa Rica Some information on the indigenous cultures. Limón, more than a quater of a millionpeople and no The Montagua Valley in guatemala, is the only site in all the http://costarica.tourism.co.cr/indian2.htm

Huetar-Bribri-Cabecar-Guaymi-Chorotega-Boruca-Guatuso-Terraba 1. Guatuso Indian Reserve (Malekus) 2. Matambu Indian Reserve 13. Boruca Indian Reserve 5. Nairi-Awari (Barbilla) 16. Salitre Indian Reserve 17. Cabagra Indian Reserve 7. Bajo Chirripo Indian Reserve 8. Guaymi / Osa Peninsula 19. Telire Indian Reserve 9. Guaymi / Conte Burica 20. Cabecar -Talamanca 10. Guaymi / Coto Brus 21. Bribri Talamanca 11. Guaymi / Abrojos Montezuma 22. Kekuldi Indian Reserves (Cocles) Some information on the indigenous cultures The day Columbus landed on what is today called "Isla Uvita", in front of Puerto Limón, more than a quater of a million people and no less than eight different ethnic groups were living in the area. The northern cultures of Costa Rica (Chorotegas) had great influence from the Aztec and Maya culture, they were the southernmost culture of what is known as Mesoamerica. The Chorotegas spoke the Nahuatl language from the Mayas and Aztecs.

96. Indigenous People Organise In Guatemala expressed the hope that solidarity, Christian and aid groups in Australia couldhelp people here to understand the plight of indigenous people in guatemala. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1994/132/132p18.htm

Recommend us to a friend Your name Friend's email Latest GLW Australian news International news ... Click here to visit the Socialist Alliance website Indigenous people organise in Guatemala By Robyn Marshall Sanic came to Australia to attend the World Indigenous People's Conference on education, which was held in Wollongong in December. Sanic told a meeting in Brisbane on February 1, organised by the Democratic Socialist Party, that education was the crying need of his people. The illiteracy rate in Guatemala is 75%. Sanic himself has never been to school. He had to teach himself Spanish language as well as learn to write his own language, of the Cakchiquel Mayan group, one of 23 indigenous languages in Guatemala. At the World Congress of Indigenous Peoples, there were four representatives from Latin America, Sanic plus others from Peru, Chile and Ecuador. They got together and issued a four-page document on their demands; they all face similar problems in their respective countries. There are fights between Congress and the president, and there are divisions within the government so that many indigenous people find the political situation very confusing. The constitution is violated every day, resulting almost in a state of anarchy. The country is still under the rule of the army and until the army is changed, nothing else will change. There have also been attempts by the Guatemalan government at peace negotiations with the URNG, the National Guatemalan Resistance Movement. Talks began in 1992 over 11 agenda items or demands of the URNG. Very quickly, the talks stalled over the first point, which concentrated on human rights.

97. (wto) No To TRIPS Of WTO Say Indigenous People's In Geneva, July 99 de los Ninos Mayas de guatemala guatemala 36 Rattanakanjangrii IMPECT (InterMountainPeoples Education and Mangte Indian Confederation of indigenous and Tribal http://lists.essential.org/mai-not/msg00160.html

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98. International Day Of The World's Indigenous People And UNV UNV s major programmes with indigenous people are in guatemala, with the verificationof the peace agreement on indigenous rights; in Ecuador, with a project http://www.unv.org/infobase/news_releases/2000/00_08_08USA_vol.htm

Sitemap Search Contact Home News/Media: Releases Review Events Media Kit ... Speeches News Release International Day of the World's Indigenous People and UNV NEW YORK, 8 August 2000 The United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV), which actively supports indigenous communities in several countries, joins international organizations and individuals commemorating the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on 9-10 August 2000. The NGO Committee for the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Department of Public Information, United Nations Children's Fund, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, International Labour Organization, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank will co-sponsor this year's events at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Bonn-based UNV programme carries out a wide range of programmes and projects to assist indigenous communities. Job creation, artisan support, microfinance, use of natural resources, strengthening of electronic communication skills and community-based planning are some of the activities that the UN Volunteers promote to increase the indigenous people's rights to sustainable development. UNV recruits indigenous UN Volunteers to increase the credibility and effectiveness of the projects.

99. Leonard Peltier Case | October 12, 2002 | International Indigenous Peoples Day E Julian Burger (Secretary of the indigenous Unit at José Morales (Maya K iché fromGuatemala, representative of and Musics from the Mapuche people from Chile http://www.freepeltier.org/iipd_events.htm

Listing of Events for International Indigenous Peoples Day 2002 Within the U.S. International Within the U.S. NEVADA TEST SITE/WESTERN SHOSHONE NATION Resist! Action for Nuclear Abolition Nonviolent Direct Action Camp October 11th - 14th Action for Nuclear Abolition Nonviolent Direct Action Camp Join with others and enjoy the beautiful Great Basin Desert. Oct 12th - World Indigenous Day - Ceremonies, sweatlodges and events to honor and stand in solidarity with Indigenous People of the world who have suffered the deadly consequences under the worldwide abuse of nuclear colonialism. Sunset candle light procession to the gates of the Nevada Test Site. Please join us as we take a stand for indigeous people rights everywhere. http://www.shundahai.org/indigenous_fall2k2_flyer.pdf DENVER, CO Transform Columbus Day (TCD) Columbus Day began in Colorado and according to TCD organizers, it will END in Colorado. TCD is a diverse local coalition of labor, youth, religious and community folks that have joined to oppose

100. Guatemala -- Culture Overview companies that have supported them. His work also idealizes the indigenouspeople of guatemala. A younger generation of writers, best http://expedition.bensenville.lib.il.us/CentralAmerica/Guatemala/culture.htm

Guatemala - Culture Overview Guatemala's rich cultural heritage includes great contrasts. The indigenous Maya groups were never brought completely under the control of the colonial Spaniards, and so an unusually large percentage of the descendants of the Maya have been able to resist integration into the world built by the descendants of the Europeans. Some of the most intense pressure on the Indian (Mayan) communities has come from the military governments of recent years, but many have been able to resist and survive. Today there is contact and exchange between the Indian highlands and the towns of the ladinos, a group that includes whites and mestizos. Their cultures have in many ways remained separate, however, divided like the population itself. Sources: Collier's Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia Americana; Guatemalan Embassy; Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture; Websites of the Embassies of Guatemala in Washington, D.C. ( www.aol.com/agremilusa/embassy.html

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