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This means that aid must be conditional on binding commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.

Without high-speed Internet, foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship are almost impossible.

Those on the religious right have no dilemma: they just hate America and its policies outright, and oppose all things "un-Islamic," including television, films, radio, and even indigenous forms of dance and music.

Unlike the indigenous languages that were pushed aside by the languages of the European colonizers, the official languages of the EU are “robust”: they are equipped with grammars, dictionaries, archives, libraries, and linguistics faculties.

But English and national languages can co-exist only if the state protects the indigenous language and citizens do not allow English to take over all prestigious domains.

Indeed, a substantial portion of the region’s population – in which ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples are often disproportionately represented – remains marginalized and excluded from the benefits of Asia’s rapid economic growth.

Vemula’s death has reminded Indians once again that the more than 300 million who belong to the lowest castes, as well as the “tribals” or indigenous people, still face discrimination, prejudice, hostility, and even violence on each step of the social ladder.

This was reflected not only in the record number of people who participated, but also in the diversity of the marchers – urban activists, indigenous groups, adherents of different faiths and political viewpoints, and, most conspicuously, old and young.

This should not be impossible, because both Saudi Arabia and Yemen have moderate, indigenous Islamic traditions that can be mobilized against jihadism.

For example, “agroecology” – a system based on traditional and indigenous knowledge that is passed down through the generations – is easily adaptable to all geographic circumstances.

Add to that the emergence of an indigenous intelligentsia in the region, exemplified by organizations like the AfDB, and it seems that Africa’s moment may have arrived at last.

Although established as a unitary Hindu kingdom, with politics directed from the Himalayan foothills, today around half the population live in the fertile southern plains and more than one-third are from over 50 indigenous, largely non-Hindu communities.

Nepal’s peace process has been truly indigenous: it has not been mediated or managed by any external party.

Their fears are shared by subsistence farmers and indigenous people worldwide – the people bearing the brunt of climate shocks, though they played no part in causing them.

If released into the environment, they could potentially alter food chains, eradicate beneficial organisms such as pollinators, and disrupt indigenous agro-ecological practices and cultures.

While there, they will consider whether to press the brakes on gene drives, to ensure that farmers and indigenous peoples are fully consulted before these technologies are unleashed in their communities.

The result of all this tension is that Latin America is seeing its biggest arms race for decades, a sad trend when the region’s worst problems are poverty, inequality, and the marginalization of indigenous people.

Historically marginalized and impoverished indigenous peoples make up between 25% and 40% of Ecuador's population.

Tens of thousands of indigenous peoples--who were too repressed only 15 years earlier to participate even minimally in national public life--marched on the capital, Quito, demanding Mahuad's resignation.

These leaders’ attitudes recall the worst behavior of their predecessors, many of whom engaged centuries ago with the West’s rising imperial powers to halt the growth of indigenous industry.

These are vital questions, but they miss the larger significance of the rise of someone like Morales, for he is Bolivia’s first indigenous elected head of state.

The societies of the Americas were forged by European conquests of indigenous populations, and by the racial and ethnic divisions that followed.

A large portion of the indigenous populations quickly succumbed to diseases and hardships brought by the European colonizers, but many survived, often in dominant numbers, as in Bolivia and much of the highlands of the Andes mountain region.

Almost everywhere, these surviving indigenous populations became subservient members of European-led societies.

Indigenous, African-American, and mestizo (mixed) communities have been fighting for their social, political, and economic rights ever since.

In Latin America, democracy has similarly been incomplete, unstable, and often inaccessible to indigenous, African-American, and mixed populations.

A dominant pattern in both the US and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the “human capital” (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities.

Morales’ election in Bolivia – where indigenous groups are estimated to comprise around 55% of the population and mixed-race people account for another 30% – should be viewed against this historical backdrop.

In Peru, for example, Alejandro Toledo is that country’s first indigenous president.

Bolivia has entered a new era of mass mobilization of its long-suffering but now victorious indigenous communities.

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