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Our GoalsFebruary 7, 2015
Village Rights International is focused on meeting concrete, measurable goals. To keep updated on how we're advancing in these projects, check our updates often.
Short Term Goals: 1. Spread the word ... Biography of Teobaldo MartinezFebruary 22, 2015
 Teobaldo Martinez has graduated from university with his teaching degree, and after working as a Kuna language consultant for a few years in Panama City, is now applying to the Ministry of Education ...
Getting to MortiFebruary 21, 2015
 The Mortí community is located nearly 30 km off the Pan-American Highway in the headwaters of the Chucunaque River, in one of the least developed areas of Panama. There are no roads into the ...
ColonosFebruary 19, 2013
 The term "colono" roughly translates as "settler." It is a term widely used by both the Kuna and non-Kuna to designate non-indigenous Panamanians living in the Darien, especially those that trace ...
VRI/ACD/UF Legal Reform Education ProjectNovember 27, 2015
 Village Rights International Partners with University of Florida and Alianza Para la Conservacion y el Desarrollo in Legal Reform Education Program in Panama
Village Rights International (VRI) is ... VRI Concept and RationaleJuly 22, 2013
Concept and Rationale
The indigenous Kuna communities of the Wargandi Comarca (Indigenous Territory) of Panama face the following challenges: Limited knowledge of legal rights and ... Panamanian Perspectives On Panama's Indigenous PopulationFebruary 24, 2013
Professor Herrera is perhaps Panama's foremost expert on the history of the Panamanian State and society’s relationship with its indigenous population.[i] He recounts how 15 or so years ago, after a ...
Panama, the Comarca, and the KunaFebruary 22, 2013
 Panama has been globally recognized for its relatively enlightened treatment of its indigenous peoples since it became a State in 1903.[i] The economic dependency of Panama to its geographic ...
The Panamanian Timber IndustryFebruary 21, 2013
 In one of my first inquiries into the Panamanian Timber industry, I was informed that the industry has “partes...blancas y partes oscuras," literally "white parts, and black parts," referring to the ...
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