Sentences with phrase «indigenous ancestral lands»

The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer - causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.

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Evangelicals and Pentecostals, indigenous and mestizos, have joined together to improve their social and economic situation, and to provide legal defense for people evicted from their ancestral lands because of their faith.

«Dispersal through slavery took large swaths of the Yoruba to Cuba, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Columbia, Venezuela, The Caribbean and other disparate lands, near and far, where the indigenous people refer to themselves as ethnic Yoruba and view Ile - Ife as their ancestral home.

Indigenous and rural communities in Indonesia are slowly reclaiming their ancestral rights to their land.

«The small contribution we're trying to make is to nationalize this so it's not just an issue for those whose back yards it is going through or for indigenous people whose ancestral lands are being ripped apart.»

Mindoro's Mangyan indigenous communities would also be heavily impacted by the mine, as the proposed mining area is within their ancestral land.

Brazil's indigenous Paiter Surui people are desperate for help: armed illegal loggers, gold and diamond miners are invading their ancestral land, felling trees, poisoning rivers and threatening the forest dwellers at gunpoint.

A 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize award, Baldenegro was a second - generation environmental activist of the indigenous Tarahumara people, whose ancestral lands reside in the western Sierra Madre mountain range.

So, we said okay and worked with them to understand what they specifically wanted - which was to have the Cuyapo's ancestral land legally demarcated as being indigenous land and basically not to be intruded on or exploited.

The Trudeau government's 1969 White Paper, which called for the removal of any special status for Aboriginal peoples, paired with increased oil and gas exploration in traditional ancestral lands by extractive industries, provided ample reason for Indigenous peoples to organize into formal policy organizations to protect their livelihoods, lifeways and traditional homelands.

Indigenous nations whose ancestral lands and waters include the site of the construction and the operation of the current pipeline want a broad coalition strong enough to block TMX on the ground.

In Chapters 2 and 3 of this report I outline how the main issue before the court in these cases is whether native title is conceived as a bundle of individuated rights which entitle native title holders to carry out specified activities on their land or whether it is based on a more fundamental relationship between Indigenous people and their ancestral land originating from the traditional system of law and custom.

despite the reforms to the native title system, the high cost, complexity and strict rules of evidence applying to claims under the Native Title Act, have a negative impact on the recognition and protection of the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral lands.

International research shows that dividing indigenous land into small parcels leads to extensive administrative costs, limited economic benefits for indigenous peoples and the loss of ancestral lands.

Indigenous rights to their lands and territories have been a concern of international law from its origins in the 16th century expansion of Europe into the New World.24 Today, international law provides strong support for Indigenous peoples» rights to own, control and enjoy their ancestral lands.25 This recognition of the central place of land for Indigenous peoples encompasses in particular the communal nature of such title, and the central significance of spiritual connection to their country.

It is difficult for remote Indigenous peoples to obtain teaching qualifications because of the lack of training facilities in remote areas and the fact that potential trainee teachers must leave family and ancestral lands to access formal education.

They are a unique component of the Indigenous social and cultural landscape, enabling residents to live on their ancestral lands.