Indigenous Peoples

The run for resources endangers many indigenous peoples worldwide. Precious commodities such as oil, gas, ore are often located on indigenous land. Huge palm oil plantations are built where forests have to make way for scorched land. Indigenous communities suffer from miserable living conditions, pollution, displacement and the loss of their way of life.

Why are indigenous peoples uniquely vulnerable to the run for resources and its discontents? What role can the media play in delivering information and analysis on the challenges that indigenous peoples face in a resource-hungry world?

A panel with representatives of the Anuak of the Gambella region in Ethiopia, Adivasi in India, and the Inuit from the Arctic circle will discuss the ramifications of the race for resources and strategies to confront them.

Moderation:
Hanno Schedler
Africa desk, Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany

Panelists:
James Albert
India advisor of the Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany

Nûno Isbosethsen
Journalist and human rights activist, Inuit from Greenland

Obang Metho
Director of the Anuak Justice Council (AJC), founder and Executive Director of the Solidarity Movement for A new Ethiopia (SMNE), Ethiopia