Sentences with phrase «indigenous land justice»

[T] he Native Title Act went a substantial way in settling the fundamental grievance of indigenous Australia; the brutal dispossession of their lands and the smashing of their ways of life at the hands of an alien imperial power... I saw the opportunity of the native title route as a modality in dealing with and settling unresolved questions of indigenous land justice in this country... One of its main objects is to «provide for the recognition and protection of native title»; that is, those rights and interests finding their origin in indigenous law and custom; not finding those rights and interests arising solely or peculiarly from the Act itself.

The Victorian Indigenous Land Justice Strategy which builds upon ATSIC's Framework, was proposed by the ATSIC Victorian State Advisory Committee and the ATSIS Victorian State Office to formalise the pursuit of Aboriginal land aspirations in Victoria.

At a meeting between ATSIC, ATSIS and the Victorian Attorney - General on 24 June 2003, the Victorian government announced its intention to develop a Cabinet submission on Indigenous land justice in Victoria.

The Framework and the Victorian Indigenous Land Justice Strategy provide the basis of a comprehensive policy framework for native title negotiations and are consistent with the government's broader Indigenous policies.

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These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

The Ministry of Justice is now using legal mediation measures to resolve disputes over land between indigenous communities and rural producers, he says.

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HE IS A NOWHERE MAN, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR TO SIT IN AN OFFICE OF EMPTINESS AND GO ALONG WITH SELLING OUT THE VENICE BOARDWALKS, ARTIST, MEDICINE MEN, BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY THAT VENICE WAS BUILT UPON, THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, WE ARE ALL IN THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST TODAY, BEFORE THE EUROS CAME, IT WAS JUST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEING MASSACRED, NOW IT IS YOU, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS SLAUGHTERED THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES TO STEAL THERE LANDS, NOW IT IS HAPPENING TO YOU, KARMIC JUSTICE THE NATIVE CHOCTAWS PULLED TOGETHER EVERY THING THEY HAD TO SAVE THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE, TO SAVE THE IRISH PEOPLES, AND THEN THE IRISHMAN KILLED THE NATIVE S FOR THE SACRED GROUNDS, KARMA AND JUSTICE IS NOT A PRETTY PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT YOUR ANCESTROS DID TO MY ANCESTROS ALL SACREDNESS NOW IS GONE THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST CONTINUES, GREAT BOOK, BY DAVID STANNARD

COMMUNITY BASED & COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK WITH ONAMAN COLLECTIVE Youth Art Mural Project: John F. Ross Secondary School, Guelph, ON (May 2016) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar & Oct 2015, Mar 2016) Words from the Land: Youth & Elders art retreat (Mar 2016) Youth Run for the Language (Oct 2015) The Painted Hand: Gathering to Feast Our Historic Alliances (Sept 2015) Reconciliation, Resurgence & Storytelling with Maria Campbell (Aug 2015) Canoe Building with Youth: Chippewas of the Thames (July / Aug 2015) Harvesting ochre & making paint (June 2015) Research with Elders on traditional knowledge and the language in Ontario & Saskatchewan (June & Aug 2015) Moosehide Tanning (April 2015) The Sacred Fisher Story: The Youth Mural Project (April 2015) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar 2015) Onaman Kendaagozid: Gathering about Sacred Paint (Feb 2015) Research into traditional Indigenous tattoos and face / body ochre paint (on - going) Collaborative creation of art pieces by Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt (on - going)

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Prafulla Samantara, India: An iconic leader of social justice movements in India, Prafulla Samantara led a historic 12 - year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh's land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open - pit aluminum ore mine.

Goldman Environmental Prize nominators work in a broad range of fields, including environmental justice, indigenous rights, natural resource protection, biodiversity conservation, citizen advocacy, environmental health, land management, human rights, and many more.

The Court has much to say about Indigenous peoples, land rights, justice, reconciliation, consultation and consent.

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Indeed, Justice Moldaver recognized that the majority's approach «risks excluding Indigenous religious freedom claims involving land from the scope of s 2 (a) protection... [because] there is an inextricable link between spirituality and land in Indigenous religious traditions» (at para 131).

The arguments for distinct protection of Indigenous land rights that were put forward in the Native Title Report 1998, the Native Title Report 1996 and Justice Kirby in his dissent in the Griffiths decision, all apply: [107]

Justice Brennan in Mabo focused on the «general nature of the connection between the indigenous people and the land» and the need for connection to be «substantially maintained».

Against this approach of reforming the present system must be weighed the benefits of enshrining Indigenous rights to land in a completely different protective system to that which presently exists, such as an arbitral system suggested by Justice McHugh.

The policy of assimilation gave way to one of «self - determination» with the election of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1972 on a social justice platform that included the recognition of Indigenous land rights.

Framework agreements which embody the principles enunciated by Justice Kirby would ensure that the economic interests of Indigenous people were not limited to traditional rights to hunt and fish on particular land but encompassed a right to participate in all developments that might occur on native title land.

Directly addressing the question of the inalienability of community - owned land, Justice Brennan in the Mabo decision27 considers whether such characteristics would prevent the common law recognising Indigenous people's unique relationship with the land as a proprietary interest.

The Social Justice Package was the third prong of the response to the Mabo decision after the establishment of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and the establishment of the Indigenous Land Fund.

In his dissenting judgment in Griffiths, Justice Kirby outlined the sui generis nature of native title, and the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia as reasons why the acquisition of native title should be treated differently to other interests in land.

The land fund commitment was realised through the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) which continues to operate today, but does not always provide an effective and accessible alternative form of land justice when native title is not availaland fund commitment was realised through the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) which continues to operate today, but does not always provide an effective and accessible alternative form of land justice when native title is not availaLand Corporation (ILC) which continues to operate today, but does not always provide an effective and accessible alternative form of land justice when native title is not availaland justice when native title is not available.

The inalienability of Aboriginal land held does not necessarily significantly restrict the capacity of Indigenous people to raise capital for business ventures or to make commercial use of inalienable freehold land, as there are a number of methods of raising finance and securing loans against the land other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatland held does not necessarily significantly restrict the capacity of Indigenous people to raise capital for business ventures or to make commercial use of inalienable freehold land, as there are a number of methods of raising finance and securing loans against the land other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatland, as there are a number of methods of raising finance and securing loans against the land other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatland other than mortgages.137 In addition, land use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatland use agreements, similar in concept to Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatLand Use Agreements (ILUAs) under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), could be used to establish unique agreements within communities covering many issues.138 Government attention is more appropriately directed to assisting Indigenous people to overcome any difficulties they have in meeting financial obstacles to such solutions than to overturning legislation that has done simple justice to a people who have been deprived of their land without their consent and without compensatland without their consent and without compensation.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

Recently, I have received an increasing number of inquiries and concerns about the ILC and the role it is playing in the realisation of land rights and justice for Indigenous people.

This would direct the Court back to the underlying relationship that Indigenous people have with the land, an essentially spiritual affair, as distinct from the exercise of rights stemming from this relationship; a distinction similar to the position postulated by Justice North in the Full Federal Court.

Proposals and decisions that seek to alter the Indigenous land base are of particular significance in my role as Social Justice Commissioner given Australia's obligations under national and international instruments with respect to Indigenous people's rights to non-discriminatory treatment and ownership and control of land.

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The Commission further notes that recommendation 9 of the Social Justice Report 2007 called for the Minister for Indigenous Affairs to place a moratorium on five - year compulsory leases over Aboriginal land.

It has also identified native title and land rights as both symbols of social justice and valuable economic resources to Indigenous Australians.

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund

Appendix 2: Submission of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner to the Inquiry into Indigenous Land Use Agreements by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

This response included the creation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth); the creation of the Indigenous Land Acquisition Fund overseen by the newly created Indigenous Land Corporation and the sanctioning of Indigenous organisations developing a series of proposals for a «social justice package» to address the consequences of Indigenous dispossession.

The interpretation of the Native Title Act 1993, through the High Court decisions in Yorta Yorta and Miriuwung Gajerrong, provide very limited forms of protection and recognition of Indigenous rights and creates a system that is limited in its capacity to deliver land justice to Indigenous Australians.

In pursuit of these objectives the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Griffith University wish to conduct a forum in which Indigenous participants or representatives identify a set of issues that currently face Indigenous communities when mining companies seek access to their land or wish to develop a project on their land.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner should consult with Indigenous organisations to develop a priority list of urgently required international comparative studies on issues identified in this report and elsewhere including macro - and micro-constitutional reform; regional agreements; inter-governmental relations internal to nation - states in respect of Indigenous policy and programs; self - government; land and sea rights; and Indigenous management of territory and resources.

Native Title Report 2009 Community Guide: Social Justice and Native Title Reports Contents The report overview: The challenges ahead Chapter 1: The state of land rights and native title policy in Australia in 2009 Chapter 2: Changing the culture of native title Chapter 3: Towards a just and equitable native title system Chapter 4: Indigenous land tenure reform Appendix 1: Native title determinations Appendix 2: Native title statistics Appendix...

Social justice also means recognising the distinctive rights that Indigenous Australians hold as the original peoples of this land, including:

an Indigenous land fund, which would ensure that those Indigenous peoples who could not access native title would still be able to attain some form of justice for loss of their lands.

Native Title Report 2005: Media Release: Social Justice Commissioner argues a different approach to the Indigenous land tenure debate

[10] Roach, G., Branch Manager, Lands, Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner staff, 23 February 2007.