Sentences with phrase «indigenous legal studies»
The NILAC program, which replaces the National Indigenous Legal Studies Curriculum, has been developed to meet revised national accreditation standards.
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The National Indigenous Legal Studies curriculum was also cited as a useful resource.
Gordon Christie is an Associate Professor of Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia; and is Director of the Indigenous Legal Studies Program.
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The studies also strengthen the case that all of the indigenous people living in the Americas descended from the continents» first inhabitants, which could resolve a legal limbo for some archaeological artifacts and human remains.
A study released this year by the World Resources Institute and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that rates of deforestation are, on average, 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition, and indigenous people have official rights to about an eighth of the world's forest area.
WASHINGTON, DC — A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today provides some of the first rigorous peer - reviewed evidence that giving indigenous communities formal legal title to their land protects tropical forests.
Prisoners» Legal Services executive director, Jennifer Metcalfe, appeared today before the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women as part of their current study on Indigenous women prisoners.
Towards the end of my legal studies, the concept of «Indigenous laws and legal orders» started to gain traction within the law school and legal practice environment.
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Studying indigenous legal traditions also involves learning central concepts that are quite different from the ones on which European legal systems are founded.
In summary, the study revealed a range of approaches adopted by companies to negotiating agreements with Indigenous communities, from an approach that opposed measures aimed at protecting Indigenous rights to one that exceeds the legal requirements.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) usefully uses the term «Legal Indigenous land interest» to describe this land.5 The following table from Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Key Indicators 2005 shows the details of Indigenous land interests (not including native title) on a State and Territory basis:
Three main sources of data gathering were used in the present study: survey methods using structured questionnaires that were devised specifically for this study; semi-structured interviews with Indigenous litigants; and input from focus group participants that consisted of open discussion with representatives of government and non-government agencies, Aboriginal community controlled agencies and private legal practitioners.
Given this diversity of title, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) uses the term «legal Indigenous land interest» to describe the range of legal relationships to land.
And I also wonder, I understand that there has been a legal committee of the government that has studied and concluded that quote, «that the weight of the evidence of the committee was that the mandatory sentencing laws have a discriminatory impact on indigenous peoples and that is contrary to the provisions of CERD», and they named Articles 2 and 5 particularly.
[3] A further non-exhaustive list of organisations who have publicly expressed support for the campaign includes: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Amnesty International Australia; Australian Catholic Bishops» Social Justice Committee; Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; Australian Council of Social Services; Australian Council for International Development; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Red Cross; Caritas Australia; Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW; Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales; Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University; Human Rights Law Resource Centre; Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth; Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales; Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney; Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council; National Association of Community Legal Centres; National Children's and Youth Law Centre; National Rural Health Alliance; Public Health Association of Australia; Quaker Services Australia; Rural Doctors Association of Australia; Save the Children Australia; Sax Institute; Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW; Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific; UNICEF Australia; and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.