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President Vojislav Kostunica of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia this week accepted the invitation from Yugoslavia’s Roma Community Center to act as patron in events celebrating international Roma Nation Day on April 8.

Multinational Shell oil company settled its cases out of court this week with members of the Ogbodo community whose lands were devastated by an oil spill last year. As part of the settlement, Shell agreed to pay the community’s legal expenses and compensation costs for all damaged property. 40 percent of the unskilled workers hired by Shell to clear the spill must be members of the families affected, and the other 60 percent must be recruited from the general Ogbodo community.

The chief of the naval staff, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, recognized the mistreatment of the Narmada dam-affected Adivasis. Adivasi people of the Narmada valley have long been deprived of all land and livelihood by the government.

The leader of the indigenous peoples of Quilmes, Francisco Solano Chaile, has pleaded for the revocation of the provincial government licence which allows the holders commercial rights in their sacred city, located in Tucuman. According to Mr.

Beijing released a statement linking indigenous Uyghurs of China to terrorism.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has launched a drive to register Native Hawaiians after failing to do so in the previous attempts. The new OHA registry is a better-financed and more refined attempt to verify Hawaiian ancestry.

Turkish authorities banned celebrations of the Kurdish New Year in cities throughout the country, claiming that “outlawed groups” would take advantage of the festivities to push their separatist agendas.

Last month the Israeli government destroyed 3,000 acres of crops planted without authorization by Bedouin farmers in the arid Negev region of Israel.