The government wants this dam as bad as some indigenous groups and nearby residents do not.
Other exploration blocks overlap reserves for indigenous groups, including some that have no contact with the outside world.
So civil society can be community groups, NGOs, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations and foundations.
They have used their membership of various United Nations bodies to compare notes with indigenous groups from around the world.
The WHO still doesn't know whether the effect on indigenous groups is because of the pandemic itself or because of underlying factors.
The new charter will give sweeping rights to the country's 36 indigenous groups (some of whom number only a few hundred people).
"Podemos" insists that the President is only focused on making a new constitution to stay in power and unfairly privilege indigenous groups.
In June 2009, Peru was rocked by violent confrontations between normally peaceful indigenous groups in the city of Bagua and local police.
Tension over the ring road is one of the milder battles between indigenous groups and economic interests that are erupting across Brazil.
H1N1 poses different challenges in different countries, but it does seem to be affecting indigenous groups more heavily than nonindigenous groups, he said.
Such ill-advised efforts are being repeated all over the world, wherever development continues to ignore the special needs of minority or indigenous groups.
Indigenous groups are suing Occidental, an American oil company, for contaminating a huge swathe of jungle during three decades of operation in Peru.
Peruvian newspapers claim that radical Bolivian indigenous militants supported by Evo Morales are also working with radical Peruvian indigenous groups including Pizango's group.
President Garcia even admitted that it was a mistake not to consult the heads of the indigenous groups prior to implementing the decrees.
Indigenous groups from the Amazon region have marched for 700km (430 miles) to protest against plans for an open-cast copper mine in their region.
Last Monday, another Para judge declared the dam illegal because the government did not consult with indigenous groups, a charge the Brazilian government vehemently denies.
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Indigenous groups have made the environment into an issue, which is fully capitalized by these leaders eager to draw political support from the indigenous masses.
Indigenous groups in Canada are actively working against the proposed ban.
In societies like ours, with acute social inequalities, the lack of training in working with children from poor backgrounds and indigenous groups is a critical issue.
Sabah's 48 constituencies are drawn around the state's three main ethnic groups: Malays, Chinese and Kadazandusun, a catch-all term for Sabah's 30 or so indigenous groups.
The indigenous groups in Cambodia have a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage, but their traditions are endangered due to widespread poverty and lack of resources.
The study set out to discover Taino roots and from there establish connection to other indigenous groups in other parts of the Americas (such as the Yanomamo).
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Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have been complaining for years about the pollution and the failure of successive governments to address it.
Indigenous groups have now found that FSC is a new and powerful tool in their negotiations with forest products companies about access to, and use of, traditional lands.
McAuley, a lay activist with the La Salle Christian Brothers, founded the Loreto Environmental Network in 2004 to support the indigenous groups in their struggle to end the pollution.
This may signify that the political elite in Peru is coming to terms with the fact that Peruvian indigenous groups are much better organized now than they were in the past.
The Garcia government sees the Morales administration as meddling in Peruvian sovereignty and has even publicly implied that Bolivia has manipulated the Peruvian indigenous groups in order to stir them to action.
One way around this is not to assign carbon rights to individuals or communities as might occur with indigenous groups in Brazil, and simply have REDD-host governments create, hold and sell these rights.
Bogota, Colombia (CNN) -- Members of indigenous groups who say they are fed up with violence in southwestern Colombia clashed Tuesday with soldiers in what they said was an attempt to reclaim their territory.
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