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Contemporary Indians’ Idle No More! Protest

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: March 17, 2015, 19:00 – 21:00

Lecture by Charles University anthropologist Jakub Hutera.

In 2012 the Canadian government approved a law that in part deregulated the legal protection of the majority of the country’s lakes, rivers and large swathes of the coasts of three oceans.

This led to the radicalisation of indigenous inhabitants under the slogan Idle No More! The activists accused the government of planning to complete a policy of colonising the original inhabitants via industrial projects with disastrous consequences for the natural environment of Indian reservations and the health of local communities.

The new Indian political movement represents a noteworthy challenge toward finding closer links between adhering to fundamental human rights and the issue of environmental and sustainable development.

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