Extractions: Introduction Remarks JOANNE BAUER : Welcome to the Carnegie Council. My name is Joanne Bauer and Im the director of studies here and I also founded the Human Rights Initiative about ten years ago. The bulk of the work that we do is to produce a publication called Human Rights Dialogue , which is available for free download on the Council's Web site. Were currently in the midst of working on an issue on environmental rights, which has a great deal of overlap with our speaker today. And we also have an interest in pursuing cultural rights, which is a subject that is rather obscure to most people. The human rights community is becoming more and more conversant in human economic and social rights, as they have long been in civil and political rights, but cultural rights is still new territory. Indigenous rights relate very closely to these two areas. Our guest, John Scott, focuses on a human rights-based approach to social justice for aboriginal and indigenous peoples. He has worked as a high school teacher, an aboriginal educational advisor, an indigenous policy officer, a university lecturer, and a senior manager at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. He has a particular interest in biodiversity and the protection of traditional knowledge.
Indigenous: To Capitalize Or Not In the US, we invariably capitalize African American and Hispanic, I m not sure that indigenous peoples of the Americas give offense, http://www.wame.org/indigenous.htm
Extractions: My 2 cents: if indigenous is being used in a generic sense (eg: ".... of Indigenous peoples when compared to immigrant populations...") then no capitalisation. If it being used as a shorthand or collective descriptor for a particular cultural group ("kidney disease in Indigenous Austalians is ...") then capitalisation as a mark of respect is appropriate. Indigenous people of different tribes or groupings often prefer to have that respect conferred via capitalisation. The same applies to "aboriginal" vs "Aboriginal". If anyone disagrees, then I invite them to consider not capitalising "greek" or "briton" or "japanese". Simon Chapman
Extractions: @import "/common/madre2.css"; Get emails with the latest news and analysis from MADRE In late September, MADRE's Executive Director, Vivian Stromberg, will tour with two Indigenous Maasai and Samburu women from Kenya. Lucy Mulenkei, director of the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), and Rebecca Lolosoli, founder of Umoja Uaso Women's Group, will speak alongside Ms. Stromberg about the struggles of African Indigenous women at the local, national, and international level. Issues such as globalization, sustainable development and the UN Millennium Development goals are the subject of debate in many academic communities. This is a chance to discuss these issues with African Indigenous women whose daily lives and political work reflect a community-based and human-rights centered approach to ensuring environmental sustainability, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, and confronting the debt burden facing countries in the Global South. In Kenya, as in the rest of Africa, the question of who is Indigenous can be a contentious one. Many outside actors, including governments, have a motivation to narrowly define Indigenous Peoples in an attempt to avoid struggles over land and self-determination. African Indigenous Peoples generally distinguish themselves based on their present-day position as Peoples who maintain traditional pastoral and/or nomadic cultures and, as a result, are marginalized by the dominant society. Indigenous women also face discrimination within their own communities. As those primarily responsible for preserving their Peoples' natural resources and traditional knowledge, however, Indigenous women hold the keys to combating poverty and creating strategies for sustainable development, both in their communities and beyond.
Indigenous Peoples Council On Biocolonialism indigenous peoples Oppose National Geographic IBM Genetic Research Project and South africa, this project is certain to affect many indigenous peoples http://www.ipcb.org/issues/human_genetics/htmls/geno_pr.html
Survival International survivalinternational.org - we help tribal people defend their lives, SOUTH africa South africa s indigenous people condemn Bushman evictions http://survival-international.org/news.php?id=21
Survival International survivalinternational.org - we help tribal people defend their lives, South africa s highest court ruled that an indigenous people has both communal http://survival-international.org/stories.php?id=54
SARPN - Land indigenous peoples in territories subjected to European conquest dating from and cultural identity to indigenous peoples, the revolution in South africa http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0000186/index.php
Extractions: Indigenous peoples in territories subjected to European conquest dating from the late 15th century onward have managed to focus national and international attention on their subjugation and dispossession. These various movements, primarily concentrated in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South America, and the United States, began in different places at different times over the past several decades. In New Zealand there was a single treaty between the British Crown and the Maori peoples. The Treaty of Waitangi, signed by the ranking British officer in New Zealand and 500 different Maori chiefs during 1840, became the primary instrument of dispossession of Maori. The Australian immigrants from England saw no reason for treaties since the Aborigines were assumed not to have title to the lands taken from them. In North America, the governments of Canada and the United States negotiated a large number of separate treaties with the many distinct Indian tribes as the Europeans flooded in. Some of these treaties entailed the payment of nominal sums of money for land and other assets. As in New Zealand, the North American treaties were not based on the existence of native title but arose, instead, from the presumption of possession.
Extractions: Ramapo Many people believe racial and ethnic groups in North America have always lived as separately as they do now. However, segregation was neither practical nor preferable when people who were not native to this continent began arriving here. Europeans needed Indians as guides, trade partners and military allies. They needed Africans to tend their crops and to build an infrastructure. Paw Paw, Carnarsie Later, as the new American government began to thrive, laws were drafted to protect the land and property the colonists had acquired. These laws strengthened the powers of slave owners, limited the rights of free Africans and barred most Indian rights altogether. Today, black, white and red Americans still feel the aftershock of those laws. In order to enforce the new laws, Indians and Africans had to be distinguished from Europeans. Government census takers began visiting Indian communities east of the Mississippi River in the late 1700s and continued their task of identifying, categorizing, and counting individuals and "tribes" well into the 20th century. In the earlier days of this process, Native American communities that were found to be harboring escaped African slaves were threatened with loss of their tribal status, thereby nullifying their treaties with the U.S. government and relinquishing all claims to their land.
Wired News: We Ain't No Biocolonialists I think if those involved in (the indigenous peoples Council) really understood what we re trying to do, they would not object to it, even if they might http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,67289,00.html
Extractions: By Stephen Leahy Also by this reporter 02:00 AM Apr. 21, 2005 PT National Geographic's recently announced Genographic Project hopes to trace human migration from Africa 60,000 years ago by analyzing the DNA from indigenous populations. At least one native organization, the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism , proposes to boycott the project and its sponsors. (See Testing Blood to Track History Special Partner Promotion Broadband Stories. What's your story?
UNITED NATIONS E/CN.17/2002/PC.2/6/Add.3 we indigenous peoples say that we are related to this life; thus your resources are our Even the African Commission on Human and peoples Rights, http://www.ifg.org/wssd/indigenous.htm
Extractions: We came here to speak on behalf of the natural world being plundered by governments and corporations. We spoke on behalf of rooted trees that could not flee the chainsaw. We spoke on behalf of salmon, herring, tuna and haddock killed in their spawning beds. We had alarming news from the Four Directions about fish, wildlife and birds, contaminated, sick and disappearing. And today we continue to speak on their behalf. Today they are more endangered than ever, and if anything, their conditions are worse. In these times, humanity must work together, not just for survival, but for quality of life based on universal values that protect the delicate inter-relatedness of life that protects us all. ...Biodiversity is a clinical, technical term for this intricate inter-weaving of life that sustains us. We indigenous peoples say that we are related to this life; thus your "resources" are our relations. It is all in how you look at it.
Extractions: Email the WebJefe M éxico is an ethnically diverse country. To understand México, one must understand her peoples, their history and contributions to what is the México of today. Within this section, we consider those who lived here prior to the 14th century as Indigenous Peoples - Toltec, Olmeca, Zapotec
Extractions: News 29 of 113 Related sidebar: A Cure by Any Other Name Related articles: In Reports magazine: Recognition and Respect for African Traditional Medicine , by Bob Stanley In Reports magazine: Medicinal Plant Potential and Profits in Latin America , by Bob Stanley Links to explore IDRC Program Initiative: Sustainable Use of Biodiversity ( SUB The Global Network on Medicinal Plants (MedPlants) Web site The Tropical Conservancy Web site The International Symposium on Biodiversity and Health Web site The TRAMIL Web site The Convention on Biological Diversity Web site Return to Focus on Medicinal Plants About Reports Email notification In developing countries, traditional herbal remedies are often the first line of health care for most of the population. ( IDRC Photo: Daniel Buckles) While the trend may be new, most of these alternative medicines are not. (See related sidebar: A Cure by Any Other Name ) These are your grandparents cures. Some are effective, some are not. Most, though not all, are at least harmless. Recent research suggests, however, that plant-based medicines phytomedicines may be the key to curing some of the worlds most serious diseases, possibly even AIDS (see related article:
ENVIRONMENT-VENEZUELA: Indigenous Peoples Protest Coal Mining indigenous peoples Protest Coal Mining Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Apr 4 (IPS) Bare-chested, we are the guardians of the Sierra, he declared to IPS. http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=28150
The Rainforest Foundation - Congolese human rights and indigenous peoples groups will be spending eighteen law in Central africa specifically addressing indigenous forest peoples http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/fcpage.php?fcpage=News&offset=6
IRIN Africa Central East Africa GREAT LAKES GREAT LAKES the plight of the indigenous forest peoples, or pygmies, of Central africa. Kalimba Zephyrin, the director of the Community of indigenous People of http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=2645&SelectRegion=Central_East_Afric
Canku Luta - Red Road we, indigenous peoples delegates from different countries, undertake this action, indigenous peoples African Coordinating Committee (IPACC) Argentina http://www.canku-luta.org/
Extractions: Today, November 29th, 2004, at 11 am, we, Indigenous Peoples' delegates, declare a hunger strike and spiritual fast inside the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva, during this 3rd week of the 10th session of the Intersessional Working Group on the United Nations Draft Declaration for the Rights on Indigenous Peoples. We, Indigenous peoples' delegates from different countries, undertake this action, with the support and solidarity of Indigenous Peoples and organizations from around the world, to call the world's attention to the continued attempts by some states, as well as this UN process itself, to weaken and undermine the Draft Declaration developed in the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations and adopted by the UN Subcommission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1994.
ASGW - Principles For Diversity-Competent Group Workers As members of ASGW, we need to increase our awareness of our own biases, status of various group members (such as indigenous peoples, African Americans, http://www.asgw.org/diversity.htm
Extractions: Niloufer Merchant, and Sandra Wathen Preamble The Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) is committed to understanding how issues of diversity affect all aspects of group work. This includes but is not limited to: training diversity-competent group workers; conducting research that will add to the literature on group work with diverse populations; understanding how diversity affects group process and dynamics; and assisting group facilitators in various settings to increase their awareness, knowledge, and skills as they relate to facilitating groups with diverse memberships. As an organization, ASGW has endorsed this document with the recognition that issues of diversity affect group process and dynamics, group facilitation, training, and research. As an organization, we recognize that racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and so forth, affect everyone. As individual members of this organization, it is our personal responsibility to address these issues through awareness, knowledge, and skills. As members of ASGW, we need to increase our awareness of our own biases, values, and beliefs and how they impact the groups we run. We need to increase our awareness of our group members biases, values, and beliefs and how they also impact and influence group process and dynamics. Finally, we need to increase our knowledge in facilitating, with confidence, competence, and integrity, groups that are diverse on many dimensions.
Extractions: Rainforest Information Centre Educational Supplement INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE RAINFOREST "Miners going into the mines often used to carry small birds, such as canaries, which were highly sensitive to the buildup of toxic gases. If the birds died, the miners quickly fled. Today, the world's 500 million indigenous peoples are the miners' canary; and the Earth particularly the tropical rainforests is the mine.That the canary is dying is a warning that the dominant cultures of the world have become toxic to the Earth. In this case, however, we cannot flee the mine."
