Sentences with phrase «indigenous legal advocate»

b) Certificate IV in National Indigenous Legal Advocacy: This provides students with the skills to work as Indigenous Legal Advocates or as Field Officers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services; and

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Recommendations 27 and 28 tell us there are substantive elements of the story of indigenous - settler relations that are essential for understanding what it means to be a legal advocate, law student, or lawyer today, and that gaps in existing knowledge have caused harm.

Aboriginal Legal Services Amnesty International Barbra Schlifer Clinic BC CEDAW Group Canada Without Poverty Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action Chair in Indigenous Governance, Dr. Pam Palmater Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry MiningWatch Canada Native Women's Association of Canada OXFAM West Coast LEAF

Some legal experts and Indigenous advocates say the trial of a Saskatchewan farmer accused of murdering a Cree man highlighted a long - standing need for more diversity on juries.

Change the Record is a coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, human rights, legal and community organisations advocating on disproportionate imprisonment and violence rates for Indigenous Australians.

Also on the legal front, Poelina sees hope in the growing use by Indigenous people of international courts of justice, including work by UK barrister Polly Higgins advocating for a law of Ecocide, that would prohibit extensive damage, destruction to or loss of human and non-human life.

This does not obviate the possibility of acknowledging formal knowledge of the existence of Indigenous legal and political systems at a constitutional level or at the common law, as in the case of Mabo The functional approach advocated by the ALRC enables both the recognition of the continuing existence of Aboriginal law and custom and sufficient flexibility for Aboriginal people to be self - determining in the definition of customary law.

The courses recognise that Field Officers (or Legal Advocates) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services possess the skills and knowledge about local Indigenous communities which are vital to the provision of culturally appropriate legal representaLegal Advocates) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services possess the skills and knowledge about local Indigenous communities which are vital to the provision of culturally appropriate legal representaLegal Services possess the skills and knowledge about local Indigenous communities which are vital to the provision of culturally appropriate legal representalegal representation.