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In this Issue (Vol. 7, No.1): Making the MDGs Relevant for Indigenous Peoples This issue focuses on a timely discussion on the Millennium Development Goals which is being reviewed five years after the MDGs were adopted by the UN. Articles include "Indigenous Peoples and the MDGs," "Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Poverty," and "Civil Society and the MDGs," among others. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 5, No.1): The Myth of Sustainable and Responsible Mining The third in a series focusing on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), this issue discusses the mining industry's efforts to present its paradigm of “Sustainable and Responsible Mining” to greenwash the industry. This issue critiques these initiatives in the light of indigenous peoples' opposition to extractive industries that mine and destroy their lands. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 4, No.2): Biodiversity Conservation and Indigenous Peoples The second in a series focusing on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), this issue presents cases, mostly on the Philippines, of what indigenous peoples' communities are doing in the field of biodiversity conservation and, where threatened, how this biodiversity is being protected and maintained. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 4, No.1): The Road to Rio+10 This is the first issue that aims to contribute to the 10-year review of the UN Conference on Environment and Development, known as the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). Issues discussed are those related to access and benefit-sharing; biotechnology and indigenous peoples; and globalization and its impact on sustainable development, among others. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 3, No.2): Sustainable Energy and Indigenous Peoples This journal deals with sustainable energy and indigenous peoples. Included are articles on climate change; coal mining and its impacts on indigenous peoples communities in Indonesia; and on alternative energy. Impacts of international trade agreements on indigenous territories and their resources are also discussed. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 3, No.1): Multilateral Banks and Indigenous Peoples This journal focuses on the impacts of the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), on indigenous peoples. This can serve as a handbook for indigenous peoples and advocates who desire to understand the structures, policies, and policy-making processes of these lending institutions. Included are case studies of WB and ADB-financed projects in the Philippines, Bangladesh and Uganda. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 2, No.2): Trade Liberalization and Indigenous Peoples Focusing on globalization and the workings of the WTO, this edition digs into the impact of globalized free trade on indigenous peoples, farmers, women, workers and Third World peoples in general. It also looks at how liberalization and deregulation, the main principles of globalization, have helped globalize ecologically industries such as mining. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 2, No.1): Indigenous Peoples in the Web of Life Agenda 21, the planet's action plan that came out of the 1992 Earth Summit, recognizes the role indigenous peoples play in protecting and sustaining biodiversity. Writing from varied perspectives and disciplines, the authors of this journal seek to dissect the roots of the current threats to the planet's "web of life." They attempt to offer ways, in the form of policy recommendations for governments and global institutions and suggested action plans for NGOs and grassroots organizations, to help protect indigenous peoples and the world's remaining biodiversity from wanton exploitation and destruction. |
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In this Issue (Vol. 1, No.1): Indigenous Peoples' Lobbying and Advocacy in the International Arena Indigenous Perspective's maiden issue deals mainly with indigenous peoples' lobbying and advocacy in the international arena. From lonely voices in the wilderness, indigenous peoples now are not only knocking at the gates of international bodies such as the UN. They are now at the UN's foyers, pushing for their advocacies and agenda in avenues such as the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, among others. |
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Spanish Issue (Vol. 1, No.1): El Cabildeo y la Defensoria de los Pueblos Indigenas en la Arena Internacional This is the Spanish version of the first journal which focuses on indigenous peoples' lobbying and advocacy in the international arena. Succeeding issues will include translation of selected journal articles. |