Publicity
Work
Mainly responsible for the global environmental and cultural
destruction are the industrialized countries. We are trying to
create an awareness for the responsibility and a broad foundation
for political change through publicity. For this purpose INFOE
is publishing several periodicals in German language:
- INFOE-Studien (studies), in which
congress reports, research results and thesis's are published
- The biannual journal INFOE-Magazin,
which regularly gives background information and news updates
on anthropological and ecological subjects as well as reports
on the Institute's activities.
Other media are available:
- German language Books,
- An instruction unit on tropical rainforest for school classes
- Exhibitions on the cultural and ecological impact of bauxite
exploitation in the Amazon, on the interrelationship between industrialized
countries and indigenous peoples and on the impact of open cast
mining in Arizona / USA and Germany
- Sideshows, Videos
Apart from this, INFOE joins indigenous rights campains, our experts and authors are invited
to seminars, scientific congresses and informing events
- In summer 93 INFOE organized a series of 13 lectures at the
Hamburg University dedicated to the "International Year of the world's
indigenous peoples."
- Since 1995 we have been organizing lectures on indigenous
peoples, human rights and global trade in Cologne / Germany. Our
series of lectures is entitled "Between Tundra and Altai: Market economy, human rights and the peoples of Siberia".
The Institute supports delegations of indigenous
peoples in Germany who are looking for possibilities to attract
attendtion to their problems themselves. Here are some examples:
- In 1988 representatives of indigenous peoples did a round-trip
to inform about the threatening impact of nuclear testing and
uranium mining in their lands.
- In 1991 INFOE helped to organize a campaign on human rights
violations against indigenous peoples
- 1992 and 1995 arranged round-trips for Apache delegations
through Germany.
- In 1996 INFOE hosted the visit of Mikhail Todyshev, Head of
the Elders Council of the Shor people of Kemerovo region
in Southern Siberia. The Shor's are most seriously threatened
by open cast mining.
- For March 1997 we are planning a visit of Western Siberian
indigenous reindeer herders to Europe.
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