• The Gwich'in people are one of the most northern Indigenous peoples in North America, living in the northwestern limits of the boreal forest. (arctic-council.org)
  • In regions such as Latin America, the issues faced by communities centered on mining and logging, in North America on tar-sands mining, there were conflicts over wind farms and iron ore mining in the Arctic, while in Africa, indigenous communities faced the leasing of thousands of hectares of land for corporations or foreign governments. (dw.com)
  • As the regional organization representing LVC groups in North America, we denounce the agreement for undermining food sovereignty, and also for its attempt to pit rural people in each country against one another. (viacampesina.org)
  • Thus, there are a number of documents included in Empire Online which relate the story of Empire from the American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and German points of view, and that from indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America. (lu.se)
  • Specific places that are cared for through such stewardship are known as Indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs). (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The protest, initially planned from August 22-28, has been extended until September 1, when a bill critical to Indigenous people's future will be voted on. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The Asia Indigenous People's Pact (AIPP) Foundation, in a separate report, noted that two thirds of the world's 370 million self-identified indigenous peoples live in Asia. (dw.com)
  • and the lack of recognition for Indigenous people's claims to territory. (viacampesina.org)
  • They want to pay particular attention to the climate and ecological crises already driving Indigenous communities from their homes in the Arctic, the rainforest and on small island nations, and demonstrate how Indigenous values offer solutions to combating climate change and the loss of biodiversity. (yesmagazine.org)
  • A new report on minorities and indigenous people warns that the global 'intensification' in the exploitation of natural resources is leading to mounting conflicts for the world's 370 million indigenous people. (dw.com)
  • The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them. (fao.org)
  • The Alliance, which has been taking part in international conferences on climate change since 2009, includes 17 indigenous organisations from 13 countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia, whose territories are facing a variety of threats. (ipsnews.net)
  • This respect has become urgent in areas such as the Amazon, the main jungle in Latin America shared by eight countries and a French territory, whose indigenous inhabitants have suffered the deterioration caused by the inroads made by agribusiness, livestock, soybean, hydrocarbon and mining companies, as well as the construction of dams, railroads, highways and river ports. (ipsnews.net)
  • In the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, based on the population censuses for the year 2010, there is an approximate population of 45 million people belonging to indigenous peoples and they reach around 8-10% of the total population. (bvsalud.org)
  • On the other hand, in countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, some of these places of historical settlement have been recognized as territories belonging to Afro-descendants (See ECLAC, Situation of Afro-descendants in Latin America and policy challenges to guarantee their rights, 2017). (bvsalud.org)
  • Objective: To estimate the incidence and survival rates of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) for Northern Territory Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. (edu.au)
  • In others, indigenous people have had to fight illegal activities that jeopardise the way of life of local populations, said Rivera, who is also the president of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Cultures of Peru (Chirapaq). (ipsnews.net)
  • This Convention applies to […] people in independent countries who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present State boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions. (arcticcentre.org)
  • crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting members of racial minorities, human rights and environmental activists, indigenous peoples and other traditional populations, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex persons. (state.gov)
  • Kampa Indigenous Territory and Envira River Isolated Peoples (in Portuguese: Terra Indígena Kampa e Isolados do Rio Envira) is an indigenous territory in Acre State, Brazil, which has been dedicated to uncontacted natives. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Apyterewa territory had the most deforestation of any Indigenous land in Brazil for four years running, according to official data. (yahoo.com)
  • The interest of illegal mining in areas of isolated peoples is cited in the legal claim (ADPF 709) that the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and eight political parties presented to the Supreme Court (STF) in July last year, demanding measures from the federal government to avoid what they called "real risk of genocide" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was already entering its fifth month in Brazil. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • A huge Indigenous protest is taking place in Brazil in response to President Jair Bolsonaro's anti-Indigenous far-right agenda. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Brazil has 567 demarcated Indigenous territories across all its states. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Indigenous leader Diolina Krikati speaks where Indigenous people gather for the Amazon Summit in Park dos Igarapes in Belem, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (wspa.com)
  • Brazil is the country with the most diversity of indigenous peoples with 305 peoples who speak 188 languages. (bvsalud.org)
  • While the world stopped because of COVID-19 in 2020, the search for ore buried on indigenous lands in the Amazon did not let up, reaching the highest number of requests in the last 24 years. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Global Witness (2020) reports that environmental defenders are being murdered at record numbers globally, with almost four defenders - defending their customs, territories, human rights, and environmental health - killed per week. (iucn.org)
  • In 2020, 331 environmental and human rights defenders were murdered, a majority of whom were acting in defense of their ancestral territories and forests ( Front Line Defenders, 2020 ). (iucn.org)
  • There should be effective safeguards, for guaranteeing indigenous peoples' human rights" in climate policies, the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples between 2014 and 2020 told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • 2020 fue el año con mayor número de publicaciones, - 13 en total -, vinculadas a la línea de investigación Políticas de Salud en la Atención de Enfermería en la Amazonía, con 36 trabajos. (bvsalud.org)
  • Critical discourse can lead to a better understanding and appreciation of entrepreneurship among indigenous people in Namibia. (intechopen.com)
  • One of the expectations this year among indigenous people is the approval of the three-year working plan of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform that emerged at COP21, which approved the Paris Agreement in 2015. (ipsnews.net)
  • A globally applicable governance type for areas and territories under customary management. (biodiversitya-z.org)
  • Forest governance by indigenous and tribal peoples. (fao.org)
  • and v) strengthen territorial governance and indigenous and tribal organizations. (fao.org)
  • However, these attempts to engage in Indigenous stewardship have confronted countless obstacles and hurdles within the American form of centralized governance in the process. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • These communities are the first in Hawaiʻi in the modern era to be engaging in Indigenous stewardship via a patchwork of ICCAs from the mountains to the sea, and, therefore, demonstrate that this is a viable, albeit arduous, avenue for communities to holistically engage in Indigenous stewardship within an American system of governance. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The convention not only recognised collective rights, such as rights to culture and autonomous governance, but also established prior and informed consent, requiring indigenous participation in political decision-making that impacts their communities and territories. (aljazeera.com)
  • Main outcome measures: Population-based incidence and survival rates by age, sex, Indigenous status, remoteness of residence and year of diagnosis. (edu.au)
  • Over the same period, there was an improvement in all-cases survival (ie, survival with and without hospital admission) for the NT Indigenous population due to a reduction in deaths both pre-hospital and after hospital admission (death rates reduced by 56% and 50%, respectively). (edu.au)
  • Conclusions: Our results show that the increasing IHD mortality in the NT Indigenous population is a consequence of a rise in AMI incidence, while at the same time there has been some improvement in Indigenous AMI survival rates. (edu.au)
  • This was due to the failure in the relocation of the non-indigenous peasant population ( criollos ) that has lived in that same region since the beginning of the 20th century (paras. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • The challenge emanating from the colonial and apartheid regimes on the Nama people of Namibia have not only resulted in them losing nearly half of its population, but they also appeared to have lost their social identity. (intechopen.com)
  • The Russian legislation defines indigenous peoples based on their population size. (arcticcentre.org)
  • Groups with less than 50,000 people are defined as "indigenous numerically-small peoples" whereas non-Russian peoples with a population size of over 50,000 are denied indigenous status. (arcticcentre.org)
  • The woman, Minister of Indigenous People Sonia Guajajara, declared the day "the milestone of Indigenous participation," then cited the national statistics institute's freshly released census data that revealed the full scope of the nation's Indigenous population: 1,693,535 people. (wspa.com)
  • While just 0.8% of Brazil's population, the figure marks an 89% jump from the nation's prior census, in 2010, due to greater willingness of people to recognize their roots and better survey methods, including access to previously unreachable villages, she said. (wspa.com)
  • Today most S mi live just like any other people in the Nordic or Russian societies, but with a small part of the population still tied to the more traditional life of reindeer herding and hunting. (lu.se)
  • Characterized by being a nomadic people, currently the majority of the Roma population is sedentary, but without their own territory, some still living in camps in tents or in rented houses, inside which there are windows and walls covered with cloth, evoking the inside a tent( https://www.academia.edu/60926553/Gitanos_de_Chile_un_acercamiento_etnoling%C3%BCistico ). (bvsalud.org)
  • 3 Threats to ICCAs include external acquisition of territories (public or private), lack of political recognition, loss of indigenous identities and internal conflicts within communities. (biodiversitya-z.org)
  • Conflicts between Indigenous peoples and land invaders would rise, with potentially genocidal impacts on entire cultures. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Conflicts over the extraction of natural resources on indigenous lands have expanded to the Arctic, while clashes between governments and social movements have escalated into a declared state of emergency in Peru. (aljazeera.com)
  • The expulsion of its area, between attacks and conflicts, has made the people of this territory formed camps. (bvsalud.org)
  • however, 49% of them have migrated to urban areas due to, among other things, the dispossession of their lands, environmental deterioration, displacement caused by conflicts and violence, and natural disasters (See WORLD BANK, Latinoamérica Indígena en el Siglo XXI ). (bvsalud.org)
  • The nomadic indigenous communities that are members of the Lhaka Honhat association have lived in the Argentine province of Salta, near the border of Bolivia and Paraguay, since the beginning of the seventeenth century. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • The association between the monarchy of Canada and Indigenous peoples in Canada stretches back to the first interactions between North American Indigenous peoples and European colonialists and, over centuries of interface, treaties were established concerning the monarch and Indigenous nations. (wikipedia.org)
  • First Nations , Inuit , and Métis peoples in Canada have a unique relationship with the reigning monarch and, like the Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, [1] generally view the affiliation as being not between them and the ever-changing Cabinet , but instead with the continuous Crown of Canada, as embodied in the reigning sovereign. (wikipedia.org)
  • This created a "constitutional and moral basis of alliance" between indigenous Canadians and the Canadian state as personified in the monarch , [26] as affirmed in Sparrow v. The Queen , [27] meaning that the "honour of the Crown" is at stake in dealings between it and First Nations leaders. (wikipedia.org)
  • As part of the Indigenous Day celebration, traditional tribal canoes, some constructed of tule reeds, others hand-carved dugouts from cedar trees, will arrive in the Bay Area from tribal nations as far north as British Columbia and as far west as Hawaii. (yesmagazine.org)
  • In the highest spirit of trust and collaboration, the purpose of this new fiscal relationship is to create a mutually supportive environment for an economic partnership that will enable Indigenous peoples to advance and grow their traditional economies and prosper as nations. (bflcanada.ca)
  • First nations" is also a widely used term in Canada as it is preferred by Indian people themselves. (arcticcentre.org)
  • IL was historically understood as the Law of Nations and did not include law for individuals, save for how states could legitimately subjugate or subsume so-called "uncivilized peoples" (i.e., peoples with "non-state" social organizations: clan, kinship, tribe). (nativeweb.org)
  • The Oka crisis, which profoundly changed the relationship between Indigenous people and the Canadian government, led other First Nations to draw similar lines in the sand. (vice.com)
  • Although in the last decade, indigenous representatives have gained a place at environmental summits, such as the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began on Sunday Oct. 31 in this city in the UK, now they want to be more than just token participants. (ipsnews.net)
  • Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service. (arizona.edu)
  • ILO Convention 169 also marked the prelude to two decades of consolidating international legislation on the rights of indigenous peoples at the United Nations. (aljazeera.com)
  • In some cases, indigenous communities are suffering the impact of extractive activities like mining and oil production, Tarcila Rivera, the spokeswoman for the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas, told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • Since 2003, more than 465 million people in the Americas have been vaccinated under the framework that emerged from the original idea of Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA), which takes place the last week in April every year. (cdc.gov)
  • In light of the World Cup, VWA will highlight the importance of vaccination to protect the health of the people of the Americas, using slogans like "Vaccination: Your best shot," and "Go on offense: Get vaccinated! (cdc.gov)
  • This summary critically analyses the legal regime that protects the ancestral lands and natural resources traditionally used, the so-called traditional communal property, of indigenous and tribal peoples in the Americas. (lu.se)
  • The Americas Region there are around 826 indigenous peoples, each one with a particular worldview and cosmogony that configure unique universes and therefore ways of being in the world and in a particular territory. (bvsalud.org)
  • 87% of the indigenous people of the Americas reside in Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru and Colombia. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Americas, home to one billion people, is one of the most bio-diverse regions, encompassing seven of the 17 mega-diverse countries in the world. (bvsalud.org)
  • LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) - The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among the delegates of 195 countries at the climate summit taking place in the Peruvian capital. (ipsnews.net)
  • The main demand set forth by indigenous activists at COP20 is focused on gaining recognition of their land ownership, and with that the protection of their forests and respect for their ancestral knowledge and collective rights. (ipsnews.net)
  • In the current 12-day conference in Lima, indigenous organisations are demanding that the states parties include, in the reports on safeguards that they have to present to the UNFCCC, indicators on biodiversity, the health of native peoples, land titling, and ancestral knowledge, among other aspects, Grace Balawag of the Kankanaey people of the Philippines told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • Balawag and other native activists called for indigenous peoples to be included in national forest monitoring systems, because they have proven to be capable of preserving their land, thanks to their ancestral knowledge. (ipsnews.net)
  • traditional, ancestral, and unceded Territories and Treaty areas throughout Canada. (bflcanada.ca)
  • Resolve to maintain and reproduce their ancestral environments and systems as distinctive peoples and communities. (arcticcentre.org)
  • What's going on in Oregon is not a fight for ancestral or treaty rights, it's simply a group of people who don't agree with their government,' says Simon. (vice.com)
  • While both were standoffs over land, Oka was about protecting ancestral territory while Oregon was an attempt to illegally take land, she explained. (vice.com)
  • Climate change threatens this familial relationship with ancestral resources and is disrupting the continuity that is required for the health and well-being of these communities (this experience is common to many tribal and Indigenous communities across the United States). (cdc.gov)
  • Almost half of the requests - 71 out of 143 - filed at the National Mining Agency (ANM) last year are on indigenous lands where there is a record at the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) of isolated peoples, who are even more vulnerable to any kind of external disease, explain indigenous rights activists and researchers. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Widows of murdered leaders of the Asháninka community of Alto Tamaya Saweto of Peru and other indigenous rights activists raised their voices in protest at COP20 in Lima, demanding formal title to native lands. (ipsnews.net)
  • These indicators and others will make it possible to gauge the extent of the participation by native peoples in the mitigation of global warming, said Balawag, the assistant project coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Forests Project Partnership under Tebtebba, the Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education. (ipsnews.net)
  • In the face of substantial international offers of funding for indigenous lands and forests at COP26, indigenous peoples are calling for specific schemes for their participation. (ipsnews.net)
  • It must then be ratified by the plenary of the 196 Parties to the COP and is to include capacity building activities for indigenous groups, the mapping of measures for their participation in the UNFCCC and financing. (ipsnews.net)
  • Rights to Lands, Participation and Consultation of Indigenous Peoples. (lu.se)
  • This summary proposes a critical legal analysis of the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding indigenous peoples' rights to lands, participation, and consultation. (lu.se)
  • A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Indigenous and Native activists occupied Alcatraz Island from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Each of the three volumes within this Special Issue contains contributions from academic scholars, activists, community groups, and artists dealing with the complex struggles of Indigenous land rights and environmental conservation - focusing specifically on environmental defenders themselves. (iucn.org)
  • Out of a total of 4 million inhabitants of the Arctic, approximately 500,000 belong to Indigenous Peoples. (arctic-council.org)
  • This means the disappearance of the territory and its inhabitants, especially the indigenous peoples. (zenit.org)
  • Indigenous Peoples, Afrodescendants, Romani, and many others ethnic groups inhabiting the region have historically endured multiple forms of discrimination and exclusion, resulting in significant inequities. (bvsalud.org)
  • The protection of lands and territories of indigenous peoples through human rights: the controversy raised in the case of Lhaka Honhat (nuestra tierra) v. Argentina. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • ICCAs are defined by the IUCN as "natural and/or modified ecosystems containing significant biodiversity values, ecological services and cultural values, voluntarily conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities, both sedentary and mobile, through customary laws or other effective means" . (biodiversitya-z.org)
  • Our goal with this issue is to provide a broad and diverse perspective on the current reality of the struggle of environmental defenders, stressing the urgent need to change the mindset of the conservation community and spread awareness of these issues, hopefully resulting in practices that are at the same time respectful of Indigenous peoples and local communities and more effective at nature conservation itself. (iucn.org)
  • A study by the Munden Project that analysed 73,000 concessions for mining, logging, oil and gas drilling, and large-scale agriculture in eight tropical forested countries found that more than 93 percent of these developments were found to involve land inhabited by indigenous peoples and local communities. (ipsnews.net)
  • Shuar leader Katan Kontiak (left) of Ecuador and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim of Chad took part in a Nov. 2 forum on the indigenous peoples and local communities platform. (ipsnews.net)
  • Government delegates at COP26 are addressing carbon market rules, climate finance of at least 100 billion dollars per year, gaps between emission reduction targets and necessary reductions, strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050, adaptation plans and the working programme for the local communities and indigenous peoples platform. (ipsnews.net)
  • It is a voluntary registry for Indigenous peoples and communities to raise awareness of ICCAs and provide appropriate recognition of their conservation values. (biodiversitya-z.org)
  • The right to communal property recognized by article 21 of the Convention, as expressed by the Court, would imply the "granting of a formal title of ownership, or other similar form of State recognition, which would give legal security to indigenous land tenure against the action of third parties or agents of the State itself" (para. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • Some communities have found novel ways to engage in Indigenous stewardship via formal recognition of ICCAs through collaborative management agreements with various governmental authorities, both state and federal, as well as with large landowners. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • and Kaʻūpūlehu, Hawaiʻi Island) have navigated bureaucracy to get formal recognition of their ICCAs in ways that have garnered governmental support for community-based revival of Indigenous stewardship practices. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The atmosphere was one of open, free and respectful exchange of the Bishops Pastors in Amazonia, men and women missionaries, laymen and laywomen, and representatives of the indigenous peoples of Amazonia. (zenit.org)
  • Upon his arrival in Edmonton, the pope was greeted by representatives of Canada's indigenous peoples. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • In some 400 events, representatives of Indigenous groups, riverine communities, fishermen and Afro-descendants discussed topics such as harassment from carbon credit companies, ending deforestation and illegal mining. (wspa.com)
  • Representatives of indigenous organisations have gained a place in every part of the COP. (ipsnews.net)
  • The proposal must be approved by the Facilitative Working Group , composed of seven indigenous and seven government representatives and endorsed at COP24, held in the Polish city of Katowice in 2018. (ipsnews.net)
  • Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began rebuilding environment protection agencies and has so far created eight protected areas for Indigenous people. (yahoo.com)
  • Around the world, indigenous peoples face the ambiguity of protecting ecosystems, such as forests or coastal zones, while at the same time suffering the onslaught of climate fury unleashed by humanity's addiction to fossil fuels, like droughts, destructive storms and rising sea levels. (ipsnews.net)
  • In terms of the trends globally what has been happening over the last decade is that there's been an intensification of the exploitation of natural resources pushing into areas populated by minorities and indigenous peoples," Soderbergh told DW. (dw.com)
  • These territories are also home to an enormous diversity of wild fauna and flora and play a key role in stabilizing the local and regional climate. (fao.org)
  • Based on an analysis of the approaches that have proven effective in recent decades, a set of investments and policies is proposed for adoption by climate funders and government decision-makers in collaboration with indigenous and tribal peoples. (fao.org)
  • Julian Brave NoiseCat, a writer and member of the Camin Lake Band (Tsq'escen) of British Columbia, says the occupation was a landmark moment for Indigenous peoples.He helped to organize the canoe journey and related events, "to honor this history so that we can carry forward the occupiers' legacy for the next 50 years as we face new challenges, the climate crisis chief among them. (yesmagazine.org)
  • GLASGOW, Nov 4 2021 (IPS) - "For my people, the effects of climate change are an everyday reality. (ipsnews.net)
  • For the founder of the non-governmental Association of Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad , one pernicious effect is the violence generated, because "When people lose their resources, they fight for them, water, for instance," she told IPS after a forum on the progress made by native groups at the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. (ipsnews.net)
  • For decades, native peoples have insisted that their traditional knowledge can contribute to the fight against climate change. (ipsnews.net)
  • Victoria Tauli-Corpuz , an indigenous activist from the Kankana-ey Igorot people of the Philippines, said the inclusion of human rights in the financing of emission reductions and adaptation to the effects of the climate crisis, as well as in the creation of carbon markets, is fundamental. (ipsnews.net)
  • Indigenous peoples suffer too the climate solutions, such as renewable energy projects. (ipsnews.net)
  • For this reason, Tuntiak Katan, a member of the indigenous Shuar people of Ecuador and general coordinator of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC), told IPS that the removal of extractive activities from this ecosystem is a fundamental condition for making progress in protection of the climate. (ipsnews.net)
  • A report presents the voices of Indigenous Canadians sharing their frustrations about society's lack of awareness that almost half of. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the harm done to indigenous Canadians by Catholics in a Wednesday address before top. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • During his six-day trip, he's expected to meet with and apologize to indigenous Canadians for abuses committed at Church-run residential. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • BFL CANADA respects and affirms the inherent and Treaty Rights of all Indigenous Peoples across this land. (bflcanada.ca)
  • The subsets, which may not be neatly separated, apply to both sedentary and mobile peoples and communities, and comprise both ancient and relatively new practices. (biodiversitya-z.org)
  • This will include conference spaces and sessions that will challenge us to consider which funding practices better align with Indigenous values and the Four R's of Indigenous Philanthropy. (internationalfunders.org)
  • These healing practices are the main form of care in many contexts, and are often used alongside biomedicine and public health interventions for promoting health, preventing, diagnosing, and treating ailments and health conditions, and for supporting people in rehabilitative processes and end-of-life care. (bvsalud.org)
  • Indigenous Peoples' organizations have been granted Permanent Participants status in the Arctic Council. (arctic-council.org)
  • Produced by Innabuyog, alliance of indigenous women's organizations in the Cordillera Region, Philippines in partnership with Kairos Canada. (kairoscanada.org)
  • BFL CANADA is working in partnership with Indigenous communities, organizations, and businesses to create a full suite of solutions tailored to the unique risks faced by the Indigenous sector. (bflcanada.ca)
  • As the 20th century ends, "non-state" peoples ("tribes"), non-governmental organizations (NGO's), transnational corporations, and international regulatory agencies all represent relatively recent entrants to IL discourse. (nativeweb.org)
  • It has carried so many stories about people at the frontlines of progressive struggles, which are commonly missing in the mainstream media. (greenleft.org.au)
  • It gave universal legitimacy to norms of self-determination, normalised collective rights in international law and strengthened indigenous struggles around the world. (aljazeera.com)
  • It will share the progress of IFIP's two new funders working groups that focus on Indigenous Territories and on Indigenous Women. (internationalfunders.org)
  • A first of its kind, the IFIP Institute's all Indigenous Faculty supports a global community of funders to strengthen and develop strategies that values Indigenous Peoples, respect their rights, and adopts the Four R's of Indigenous Philanthropy. (internationalfunders.org)
  • The first year of this new programming will converge at IFIP's 2018 Global Indigenous Funders Conference, October 7th-10th in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (internationalfunders.org)
  • By International Funders for Indigenous Peoples Staff "We are not small islands. (internationalfunders.org)
  • We are a vast oceanscape," said Maureen Penjueli at the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples' Pacific Hui convening. (internationalfunders.org)
  • By Ashley Hernandez, Program Associate with International Funders for Indigenous Peoples In recent years, the funding sector has been more prominently embracing equity, justice and a human rights lens. (internationalfunders.org)
  • By International Funders for Indigenous Peoples Staff Indigenous women have made a vast imprint on global processes as change agents. (internationalfunders.org)
  • According to the government's statistical agency, indigenous women were three times more likely than nonindigenous women to experience violent abuse and, according to the RCMP, were four times more likely to be victims of homicide. (state.gov)
  • The Hitnü indigenous people live in precarious sanitary conditions, with food insecurity and being victims of sociopolitical violence in Arauca, Colombia. (bvsalud.org)
  • The South American nation's intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal is to return the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacaja lands in Para state to the original peoples. (yahoo.com)
  • In an era of inequality, the Waukazoos - struggling for visibility, dignity and basic housing security - represent some of the most forgotten of our nation's forgotten people. (hcn.org)
  • It interrupted the spread of indigenous measles in 2002 and rubella in 2009. (cdc.gov)
  • Notice: Please see 2019 week 52 for measles cases stratified by imported and indigenous status. (cdc.gov)
  • The "Luta Pela Vida" (Struggle for Life) mobilisation has gathered more than 6000 Indigenous people from 176 Indigenous communities in the capital Brasilia, to protest Bill 490 , which - if approved - will deny the fundamental right of Indigenous people to land. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Self-identification as indigenous or tribal shall be regarded as a fundamental criterion for determining the groups to which the provisions of this Convention apply. (arcticcentre.org)
  • Stories of how the lives of people and of animals interweave can help us solve fundamental questions about the environment. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • One of the most sacred sites in the Yaigojé Apaporis is La Libertad or Yuisi, because that is where the gods said it is the center of the world of all peoples," said Robin, a community leader descended from two Amazonian cultures. (rainforestjournalismfund.org)
  • Indigenous person from the Yaigojé Apaporis reservation prepares traditional costume for an Amazonian ritual. (rainforestjournalismfund.org)
  • During 18 years, the Court considered that any violation of indigenous peoples' right to land (to communal property) also constituted a violation of their right to territory (to natural resources). (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • VWA is truly a collaborative effort led by countries and territories of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to improve equity and access to vaccination for families. (cdc.gov)
  • Since the 1990s, with the launching of the Indigenous Peoples Initiative, PAHO has been a global leader in recognizing the inextricable link between culture and health and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant, and other ethnic groups to their healing traditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • The presence of strangers on Indigenous land threatens the integrity of the Indigenous (people) and causes other damages, such as the destruction of forests," the agency said in its statement. (yahoo.com)
  • This struggle was guided through the words of the wise men and elders of the seven peoples who continue to live there, despite the hunt for resources that also include rubber, furs and timber, which threatens to displace them. (rainforestjournalismfund.org)
  • For the indigenous people of the Andes (in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia), they are the symbol of water, and a figure of power. (arizona.edu)
  • In Ecuador, social movements evolved into formal politics, giving rise to the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, that has played a central role in the making and unmaking of governments. (aljazeera.com)
  • We see its revision - rebranded as the USMCA (or T-MEC) - as another failure to respect the dignity of farmworkers, family farmers, Indigenous people, and the communities and territories in which we live. (viacampesina.org)
  • The association between Indigenous peoples in Canada and the Canadian Crown is both statutory and traditional, the treaties being seen by the first peoples both as legal contracts and as perpetual and personal promises by successive reigning kings and queens to protect the welfare of Indigenous peoples, define their rights, and reconcile their sovereignty with that of the monarch in Canada. (wikipedia.org)
  • IL is dependent upon the notion of states and sovereignty (effective control of territory). (nativeweb.org)
  • They hold the keys to sovereignty, though indigenous peoples are increasingly making claims to their own forms of sovereignty vis-a-vis state political units. (nativeweb.org)
  • The controversy focused primarily on the practice of indigenous autonomy - and its implications for state sovereignty. (aljazeera.com)
  • In the eight countries that share South America's Amazon jungle, formal collective title is lacking on nearly 100 million hectares of native land, according to the Coordinator of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA). (ipsnews.net)
  • The demarcation of Indigenous land protected it from loggers, miners, land invaders and big agribusiness, while at the same time preserving traditional cultures. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Bolsonaro threatened Indigenous peoples during his electoral campaign and his government, along with its traditional big agribusiness and religious allies, have taken no action to stop land invasions, killings and destruction of Indigenous territories. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Studies demonstrate that traditional Indigenous communities are the best nature guardians. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Queen's University is situated on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. (queensu.ca)
  • Meanwhile, in Cambodia's Prey Lang Forest region, home to the Kuy indigenous people, official land grants of tens of thousands of hectares of forest for mineral extraction, timber and rubber plantations have forced many people to give up their traditional livelihoods. (dw.com)
  • The study shows what has happened to them when being deprived of their territory and forced to abandon their culture, lifestyle and traditional economic subsistence. (lu.se)
  • This year, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution on the Health of Indigenous Peoples, reinforcing the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy's call to integrate, as appropriate, safe, and evidence-based traditional and complementary medicine services, within national and sub-national health systems, with a primary health care approach. (bvsalud.org)
  • Countries in the region have worked toward recognizing, protecting, articulating, and integrating Traditional and Complementary Medicine in health systems and services, including self-care strategies, through the development of normative and policy frameworks, and the implementation of initiatives to provide culturally adequate, people-centered quality health services. (bvsalud.org)
  • The traditional people of the Amazon have a unique plurality of socio-environmental, cultural and economic interaction. (bvsalud.org)
  • Detachment from traditional lands has a negative effect on the spiritual and mental health of the people. (cdc.gov)
  • These territories contain about a third of the continent's forests. (fao.org)
  • The 21-year-old Asháninka woman is the daughter of Jorge Ríos, an indigenous leader who was killed in September for defending the forests of his community, Alto Tamaya Saweto, in Peru's Ucayali jungle region. (ipsnews.net)
  • In 2011, Yem- situation, one can only expect that en reported an explosive outbreak the situation will not worsen and the 60 countries and territories have reported transmission so far of chikungunya which was the first disease will not spread further. (who.int)
  • Indigenous peoples designed to exercise their autonomy and structure their own solutions. (bflcanada.ca)
  • The passing of Bill 490 would be a victory for the powerful against the country's minorities and spell the end for many Indigenous cultures. (greenleft.org.au)
  • A cross-sectional study was carried out with Hitnü indigenous people, during February and March, 2021, time of drought. (bvsalud.org)
  • The land and resources are all "vital for their livelihoods, their culture and often their identity as a people," Vital Bambanze, chair of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, said in the report. (dw.com)
  • The report says the unprecedented demand for natural resources across Asia is "feeding ethnic conflict and displacement and is a severe threat to the lands, livelihoods and the way of life of minorities and indigenous people. (dw.com)
  • Encroachment on such territories over recent years prompted Brazil's top court on Thursday to enshrine Indigenous land rights by denying a suit backed by farmers that sought to block an Indigenous group from expanding the size of its territorial claim. (yahoo.com)
  • For many years, the Wichí have been struggling to get legal titles to the land they traditionally own, constantly seized and fenced by non-indigenous cattlers and farmers. (intercontinentalcry.org)
  • A total of 576 indigenous people from 16 settlements participated. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat (IPS) provides support for the Permanent Participants, the groups representing Arctic Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Council. (arctic-council.org)
  • In the case before the court, Santa Catarina state argued that the date Brazil's Constitution was promulgated - Oct. 5, 1988 - should be the deadline for when Indigenous peoples to have already either physically occupied land or be legally fighting to reoccupy territory. (yahoo.com)
  • Indigenous land demarcation began in 1988, after successful civil society pressure organised by Indigenous leaders at the constitutional assembly. (greenleft.org.au)
  • It proposes that Indigenous peoples can only claim rights over lands that were in their possession on October 5, 1988 - when the country's constitution was enacted. (greenleft.org.au)
  • 115). On the other hand, the impact on natural resources (on the territory) caused by the environmental degradation proved in the case, in the Court's view, constituted a direct violation of their rights to a healthy environment, to adequate food, to water and to cultural identity (paras. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • Specifically, the Court noted that "the environment is related to other rights, and that there are "environmental threats" that can impact the food, water and cultural life" of indigenous peoples. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • On the rock, they envisioned a cultural and educational center for Native peoples, says Martinez, who is helping to organize this modern-day version. (yesmagazine.org)
  • After a brief introduction to Namibia and the Nama people, the cultural values and entrepreneurial initiatives of the Nama people are discussed, followed by discussions, recommendations and conclusions. (intechopen.com)
  • It belongs to the native people who live here,' tribal leader Charlotte Rodrique told reporters at a press conference outside the cultural centre near the refuge in early January. (vice.com)
  • These natural resources are important to us, for healing, dances and rituals, which is why we said that a national park must be created to protect this territory," said Robin, who is territory and environment coordinator for the Yaigojé Indigenous leaders' association, ACIYA . (rainforestjournalismfund.org)
  • Targeted, culturally safe Indigenous community-focussed programs are needed for early detection and patient-centred management of GI adenocarcinomas. (edu.au)
  • And those people, according to the AIPP Foundation, "are currently marginalized and subordinated economically, politically and culturally. (dw.com)
  • The implementation of these initiatives, and the Covid-19 pandemic, have highlighted the importance of intercultural frameworks for developing culturally appropriate quality health interventions and people-centered health systems and services. (bvsalud.org)
  • It also crystallised some challenges facing the application of international law for indigenous peoples, who may be protected by global treaties by are located within the national borders of states. (aljazeera.com)
  • Armed confrontations, national strikes and their presence in the courts were the strategies that the Indigenous nationalities used to stop the loss and destruction of their territories as they consider their environment part of their body and plants and animals are the other members of their society. (socialdocumentary.net)
  • SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest . (yahoo.com)
  • This was during the assimilation and termination era, when the U.S. government decided that if it couldn't change Native peoples into its own likeness, it would erase the tribes and let the cities absorb their citizens until they disappeared into the mainstream. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Indians of All Tribes had decided in 1969 that the decommissioned Alcatraz penitentiary qualified for reclamation by Native people under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the Lakota. (yesmagazine.org)
  • The 100-year-old agreement stipulated that all retired, abandoned or out-of-use federal land could be returned to the Native people who once occupied it. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Native people are generally relegated to history books or remote reservations, not row houses and apartment complexes. (hcn.org)
  • But according to the U.S. Census Bureau, seven out of 10 Native Americans - or 3.7 million people - reside in cities. (hcn.org)
  • With nearly one in four Bay Area Indians living in poverty, Native people are the region's most impoverished racial group, according to PolicyLink. (hcn.org)
  • Following the events that indelibly marked the future of many families, the native peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, threatened by the continuous concessions to companies for extractive activities, applied different defense methodologies against mining, oil companies and the government. (socialdocumentary.net)
  • Other authorities that participated in the action on Monday included Brazil's ministry of Indigenous Peoples, environment protection agency IBAMA, the federal police and armed forces, among many others. (yahoo.com)
  • Nine of 11 justices of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled against that argument, a decision that has far-reaching implications for territories nationwide. (yahoo.com)
  • Indigenous groups estimate more than 10,000 non-Indigenous people are living inside the two territories. (yahoo.com)
  • Carl Soderbergh, an MRG spokesperson, warns the situation faced by indigenous groups is deteriorating world-wide. (dw.com)
  • This photo-documentary tells the story of the resistance that the Indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon have waged against extractive companies that threaten their territories through continuous concessions and contamination caused by the oil company Texaco, during its presence in the country. (socialdocumentary.net)
  • When the International Labour Organisation (ILO) passed Convention 169 in 1989, it established indigenous rights to self-determination. (aljazeera.com)
  • We hope that the summit takes indigenous communities into account. (ipsnews.net)
  • The area is inhabited by the Ashaninka, Envira River Isolated Mashko, and the Xinane people, who speak a Panoan language and live by the Xinane Stream (in Portuguese: Igarapé Xinane), an affluent of the Envira River. (wikipedia.org)
  • ABIN said as many as 2,500 Indigenous people live in 51 villages within. (yahoo.com)
  • Robin Elkin Díaz Miraña, an Indigenous Macuna, works to preserve the 'purity' of the knowledge of the people who live in the Yaigojé Apaporis reserve in Colombia's Amazonas and Vaupés regions. (rainforestjournalismfund.org)
  • When people and animals live together, the story of their association can be read in the land around them. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • When people and animals live together over a long time in a specific place, the land responds to their presence by hosting new plant communities which act as 'signatures' to this relationship. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • We need funds that go directly to indigenous peoples," Graciela Coy, an indigenous woman from Ak'Tenamit (our people, in the Q'eqchi' language), a non-governmental organisation that works in northern Guatemala, told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • BFL CANADA will do this by continuing to build relationships with Indigenous partners and supporting structures, processes, and agreements between Indigenous peoples and the insurance industry centred on collaboration, core values alignment, capacity building, and effective risk management. (bflcanada.ca)
  • In February this year, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights set a new and controversial precedent about the protection of the right to land and territories of indigenous peoples. (rivers-ercproject.eu)
  • The report for 2012 by the London-based human rights group, Minority Rights Group International (MRG), says indigenous peoples "in every region of the world" face the risk of being "driven from their land and natural resources. (dw.com)
  • Contemporary intersections - Indigenous people, human rights, and economic and political development. (nativeweb.org)
  • We were interested in documenting local, hear-say categories of behaviour ('agitated', 'hungry'), emotion ('confused', 'angry'), intention ('ready-to-bolt', 'homebound'), as well as the unique spatial classifiers that people associate with the possibility of human-animal co-presence. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is named after Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews and other people at risk in Hungary at the end of World War II. (lu.se)
  • The UN proclaimed it back in 1994 with announcement of the Decade for Indigenous Peoples. (aljazeera.com)