IAIP To Commission On Sustainable Development decided to form an International Alliance of the indigenousTribal peoples of the fromthem without any consultation and participation by we who are http://iaip.gn.apc.org/IFB/iast-c~1.htm
Extractions: home Communication from the of the International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests to the Commission on Sustainable Development: Rome 10 March 1995 Distinguished members of the Commission of Sustainable Development, In 1992, delegates of the indigenous organisations of the continents of Asia, America and Africa met for the first time in Penang , Malaysia, decided to form an International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, based on a well-founded concern from observing the accelerated and progressive destruction of the forests in our ancestral territories. The Alliance provides a forum for dialogue and the agreement of policies on the future of our territories, the resources within them and our fundamental rights, issues which is the theme that international organisations and governments are discussing at the moment, with the aim of exploiting and profiting from them without any consultation and participation by we who are their owners. International instruments and agreements, such as the ILO's Convention No 169, Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biodiversity refer vaguely to the need to consult indigenous peoples and allow their direct participation in the development of plans, policies and programmes regarding forests and other natural resources in our territories.
ZNet | Colombia | SOS FROM THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF PUTUMAYO we ask support and accompaniment for the indigenous peoples of theState of Putumayo in these difficult times. we call upon the http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=9&ItemID=2122
IBA - Indigenous Peoples Committee Homepage interested in issues concerning indigenous peoples to attend Links we are pleasedto introduce you to athabascau.ca/indigenous/ The indigenous Bar Association http://www.ibanet.org/general/CommHome.asp?section=SLP&Committee=SLP-3
Institute Of Indigenous Government - Web Site international focus Mandelas South africa, Ghandis we welcome all people andoffer programs in Institute of indigenous Government (IIG) 3rd Floor, 1286 http://www.indigenous.bc.ca/
Extractions: Promotion link Registration is now underway. AdmissionPDF and RegistrationPDF Adobe Acrobat required. Spring Semester Registration We conduct our classes twice a week so you can finish in two months instead of the usual four per semester. (Two courses is considered a full time study) Spring Offerings The new Social Work program offers one course for the spring that introduces students to the perspectives, concepts, and theoretical foundations of social work. (SOWK 200) The Nature of Racism , a course with an international focus: Mandelas South Africa, Ghandis India, the American Civil Rights Movement, American Red Power, and Canadian First Nations and issues of justice. (SOCI 200) Introduction to Statistics , This course introduces statistical methods used to gain insight and draw conclusions of data. (STAT 203) Business English , this course gives familiarity with various forms of reporting activities and project proposals. (ENGL 204)
Extractions: World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Today I say Sorry. Sorry to the Peoples of the world that the Australian government for the last fifty years failed to implement the Genocide Convention. How many other countries are there like this? Who are they and why has this situation been tolerated so long? Let's be serious about this matter. Member States either join up or they must be thrown out. A prerequisite to be a member State of the United Nations must include full compliance with the Genocide Convention. Personal accountability is a powerful force for change. UBUNTU! UBUNTU! UBUNTU! I call for unity among Indigenous Peoples and UN member States to address this insult to humanity.
Indigenous Unite indigenous peoples, given that we have inhabited serious conflicts between indigenouspeoples and park made up of seven indigenous organizations representing http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/04/mm0492_05.html
Extractions: INDIGENOUS AND TRIBAL PEOPLES from tropical forests around the world have united to create a new alliance to confront the destruction of their territories and forests. Representatives from forest-dwelling communities in the Americas, Asia and Africa formed the "International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests" at a conference held in Penang, Malaysia from February 12 to 15, 1992. The conference also adopted a "Charter of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests." The historic new alliance unites for the first time Indians from Amazonia, Central America and the southern cone of South America, "pygmies" from Africa, tribal peoples from India and Thailand, indigenous peoples from the Philippines , "Orang Asli" and Dayak peoples from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, indigenous peoples from Indonesia, as well as Melanesian peoples from New Guinea. The new alliance is needed, say the forest-dwelling peoples, to confront those who are responsible for destroying their forests and undermining their livelihoods and who are already united and organized. A new unity among the peoples of the tropical forests is needed to ensure that their rights are respected in international policymaking regarding the rainforests. The Charter, which sets out the allianceÆs demands, goals and principles, advocates a new approach to development and conservation in the tropical forests based on securing the rights of the forestsÆ original inhabitants.
Plenary Intervention INC 5 Johannesburg for me to be in South africa. Our struggles and challenges as indigenous peoplesmirror many of the historic struggles of this remarkable country. we wish you http://www.inuitcircumpolar.com/Index_of_Speeches/Business_Symposium/Plenary_Int
Extractions: SPEECH GIVEN BY MS. SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER, PRESIDENT OF INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR CONFERENCE (CANADA) AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR CONFERENCE PLENARY INTERVENTION IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, AT THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE TOWARD A GLOBAL CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS DECEMBER 4, 2000 Good morning. My name is Sheila Watt-Cloutier. I am President of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference Canada, and Vice-President of ICC. I am joined this week by Chief Robert Charlie representing Yukon First Nations, Paul Okalik, Premier of the Government of Nunavut, and Larissa Abroutina, Vice-President of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North. Looking at the view of ice forming on Frobisher Bay from my home in Iqaluit, and the warm Indian ocean north of Durban last week, solidified my thinking on the POPs convention. We still have a significant effort ahead to conclude a global POPs convention. But much has already been accomplished. There is a general understanding of the issues and a consensus on what to do about them. Let me remind you that Arctic indigenous peoples are hunting cultures. We eat what we hunt, as the recent BBC World story vividly shows. This story has surprised some that we would eat animals raw but this is our reality that we have presented to you for the last two years. I hope our message ensuring our health and cultural survival is getting through.
Extractions: The following report is based on notes hastily written down at the sessions and is not a full recording of all that was said. I invite others who were present at the conference to correct anything I've reported incorrectly and to add their own comments and perspectives on the conference in the Talking Circle under "A Just and Lasting Reconciliation." Satsan described how their efforts to reconcile through a negotiation process either failed or that process was not available, and so they were forced to turn to the courts to get affirmation of their legal interest in the land. He said the treaty process in BC was in a stall, partly because of the narrow mandate of the Crown, "requiring us to give up 95% of who we are and the land for a 5% solution." Reconciliation doesn't mean we have to give up anything, he said; neither group has to give up land. Reconciliation means a shift in mind, and means that Aboriginal people have as much responsibility as anyone. We need to put a new memory in the minds of the children, he said, not just our pain, despair, helplessness or hopelessness, but a memory of a people who are successful, proud, healthy, our own heroes. He quoted Bob Marley's "Redemption" song: "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery" and concluded with the statement that "no one but us can free our minds."
ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Library : Indigenous Peoples In that way, we can retrace the cultural evolution in Balkan Aegean regionand show it to you. Index Society Culture \ indigenous peoples http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=50&cid=1
Rigoberta Menchú: "We Will Demand An Explanation From The UN" Translate this page United Nations created a permanent forum on indigenous peoples. up on the Rio agreements,indigenous groups were Never before had we seen, for example, Germany http://www.tierramerica.net/2002/0915/idialogos.shtml
Extractions: We will demand that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan account for the exclusion of indigenous peoples from the agenda of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú told Tierramérica. JOHANNESBURG - Latin American indigenous leaders issued a warning prior to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which met until Sep 4 in South Africa: the voice of the indigenous will be ignored. Their prediction proved correct. Ten years ago, at the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, the Latin American indigenous movement made important strides in achieving recognition of their rights That year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to an indigenous leader for the first time: Rigoberta Menchú. The Indigenous Peoples Decade was declared and the United Nations created a permanent forum on indigenous peoples.
Voice Of Indigenous Peoples - A Book Review By Scott London United Nations Draft Declaration of indigenous peoples Rights made by the nineteenindigenous representatives describe rich from our forests, we are condemned http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/ewen.html
Extractions: Clear Light Publishers, 1994, 176 pages In their own way, each of the book's sections shed light on the global nature of the plight facing indigenous people: the disappearance of diversity and traditional ways of life, ecological degradation, repression of native rights movements, and the loss of vital knowledge about how to live in harmony with the environment. The statements made by the nineteen indigenous representatives describe these issues with examples drawn from their own cultures. Anderson Muutang Urud of the Kelabit tribe of Sarawak, Malaysia, points out that his people have lost their native forest lands to logging companies. "Our lives are threatened by company goons," he says. "Our women are being raped by loggers who invade our villages. While the companies get rich from our forests, we are condemned to live in poverty and eventual genocide." Davi Yanomami of the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon Valley describes the invasion of garimpeiros (gold miners) who not only ravage their lands but exploit his people and spread disease. Thomas Banyacya, a Native American Hopi elder, talks about the costs to his people of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 which mandated the removal of Navajos and Hopis from their native lands, ostensibly to resolve conflicting claims to land between the two groups, but largely as a result of pressure by mining and energy industries.
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International Workshop On Indigenous Peoples And Development we shall create an international network having the use and development of indigenouspeople's resources exchange experience from different peoples and region http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wgtrr/ollan.htm
Extractions: International Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Development Ollantaytambo, Qosqo, Peru 21-26 April 1997 We , the participant of the International Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Development held at Ollantaytambo, Qosqo, Peru, from 21 to 26 April 1997: Considering the importance of cultural diversity and of Indigenous People's values and philosophies for a new paradigm for sustainable development; Considering the importance of Indigenous Peoples knowledge and practices for the maintenance and conservation of biological and cultural diversity for future generations; Considering the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Chapter 26 of Agenda 21 of the Rio Declaration, ILO Convention 169, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Desertification, the Copenhagen Social Summit Declaration, Article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant international agreements and covenants that recognize the crucial role of Indigenous Peoples in Conservation and development; Considering that multilateral development banks, international development agencies, national and international non-governmental development organizations have programs and projects targeting Indigenous Peoples that are not widely known;
Extractions: After years of suffering the effects of contaminated water, the Cree Nation of Split Lake, Manitoba has proven that remote communities can restore water quality without relying on expensive and distant laboratories. The success of the IDRC-sponsored project in Split Lake holds great promise for any community in the developing world where simple, inexpensive and reliable tests for water quality are needed. Perhaps more importantly, the project proves that new technologies can be mastered by communities possessing only modest technical training. The Split Lake experience reflects increasing interest in indigenous communities across Canada in joining Western science with traditional knowledge to solve environmental health problems such as water quality. For almost 10 years, IDRC has been supporting a research network in developing countries to create simplified water quality testing technologies (See below ). These technologies were proven to work when tested by trained field and laboratory technicians. But could local people in these countries do it themselves? For Dr Gilles Forget, Director of Health, Society and the Environment at IDRC, the basic question was: "Can we transfer this know-how to the community?"
Community Healing we focus on World Wide web resources indigenous Studies Resources and indigenous Resourcesfor and Culture Anthropological studies of various Arctic peoples. http://www.tapestryweb.org/links/communityhealing.html
Extractions: CIRAN Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks. : "CIRAN's objective is to encourage research that has relevance for developing countries, and to foster international cooperation and capacity-building in this area." The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website concerning initiatives to eliminate racial and ethnic disparties in health. Through the knowing of marginalized people Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network : "The Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network (IBIN) is a mechanism to exchange information about experiences and projects and to increase collaboration among indigenous groups working on common causes related to biodiversity use and conservation." SACNAS: Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science : SACNAS is a diverse society with a vested interest in promoting opportunities in graduate science education for Chicano/Latino, Native American, and other students. Encouraging these students to reach the highest levels in their science careers has been the Society's continuing mission during its 25 year history." Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development : "South-South Transfer of Innovative Experiences," an intiative of the Ministery of Agriculture, Guyana; the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture IICA; and the United Nations Development Program"
IUCN At Johannesburg - Media Events At The IUCN Environment we need to feel empowered and have the hope on building a stronger unity amongstindigenous peoples, building on took place last week in South africa as a http://www.iucn.org/wssd/joburg_programme/workshops/2608/mon26_indigenous.htm
Locate Indigenous Peoples - UNCyberschoolbus we walk about with great respect, for the Earth of national parks in southern Africathat prohibit of perspectives and the impact on indigenous peoples, go to http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/indigenous/locate_2.asp
Aboriginal Connections: International africa and The Middle East (0) Listings of the indigenous peoples in africa and the Wegive you here some insights in the life of indigenous peoples in Asia http://www.aboriginalconnections.com/links/International/
Syllabus: Indigenous Peoples - Global Issues (Fall 2001) we explore the relationship of law and custom Political Uses of Customary Law in ModernAfrica . The First Continental Conference of indigenous peoples in Ecuador http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/syllabus470.html
Extractions: Syllabus: Indigenous Peoples - Global Issues (Fall 2001) Professor Peter d'Errico Course description This course provides a critical overview of present day issues facing indigenous peoples. We begin by examining the concept of a "Fourth World." Who are indigenous peoples and how have they been categorized in relation to "ethnic groups," colonization, and the international system of states? We examine current debates within the United Nations about indigenous peoples and human rights. We take a look at law and economics of colonialism and emerging issues of globalization. We explore the relationship of law and custom. Reading materials include fiction and non-fiction approaches to these themes. Books Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The Zapatistas, Zapatista Encuentro: documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and against Neoliberalism B. Traven, Government George A. Collier, Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (1999 revised edition) A. Oscar Kawagley, A Yupiaq Worldview: a pathway to ecology and spirit Course Packet : Selected edited cases and articles.
