Sentences with phrase «indigenous people reported»

In addition, 6 % of Indigenous people reported diabetes and 2 % reported kidney disease (table 1).

Many Indigenous people report that with participation in the Inquiry, and the release of Bringing Them Home, their deprivation of this fundamental entitlement was at least acknowledged, if not restored.

That's despite nearly half of all Indigenous people reporting to the recent Reconciliation Australia survey that they experience at least one form of racial prejudice and the findings last year of the Ms Dhu coronial inquest that highlighted shocking treatment by police and medical staff.

Although Australia's National Oral Health Plan and several Closing - the - Gap initiatives identified Indigenous peoples as a priority, the prevalence of oral health conditions continue to have an impact, with Indigenous peoples reporting that health services are not culturally safe.

Table 3: Communicable diseases in Indigenous peoples reported as multiples of the rates in the non-Indigenous population (2004 - 05)[57]

Not exact matches

Canada Report says indigenous people in Toronto are far more likely to be homeless, unemployed and hungry, Toronto Star

«It is significant that a report on human rights in Canada focuses so much on Indigenous peoples and Indigenous rights.

The Committee was so concerned about issues of violence against Indigenous women and the violation of Indigenous Peoples» land rights that it called on Canada to report back within one year on progress made to implement its recommendations on these issues.

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's human rights record should be a wake - up call for all Canadians.

The reports on the Summit indicate that the market economics of the G7 - TNC - IMF - WB - WTO combination dominates through their «global governance» not only the political UN but also the UN Special Agencies for social development and justice like ILO, UNESCO, FAO, Commissions on Human Rights, Women's Development, Indigenous People etc for their goal of economic growth.

The report is a joint collaboration between Community Network in Action (CNA), Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP).

Family of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has expressed anger and worry over the conflicting reports concerning his whereabouts.

Over the weekend a report was issued on the rights of indigenous people to their forest habitat and so forth.

The report highlights the fact that indigenous people and local communities have created a diversity of polyculture and agroforestry systems, which have increased biodiversity and shaped landscapes.

Nathan: ASIC's IOP run a helpline (Ph: 1300 365 957) and an email account (email: [email protected]) where we receive reports from Indigenous consumers directly, and that's one of the key things that drives our work is understanding what the issues are that are facing people on the ground.

A new report shows that forests managed by Indigenous Peoples and communities hold about one - quarter of the world's tropical aboveground carbon.

This new report by Forest Trends and IDESAM (Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia) shows that over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies and recommends that more finance should go directly to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies, in particular subnational governments, indigenous peoples, farmers and local communities of the Amazon.

A 2016 report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Woods Hole Research Center and the World Resources Institute reported that indigenous peoples and local communities hold at least 54,546 million metric tons of carbon in the tropical forests they live in globally — just under a quarter of the total carbon found above ground in the global tropics.

Representation of Indigenous peoples in climate change reporting, Climatic Change DOI 10.1007 / s10584 -017-2076-z [email protected] Author (s) 2017.

This article is an open access publication Abstract: This article examines how newspapers reporting on climate change have covered and framed Indigenous peoples.

In pursuit of its goals, the David Suzuki Foundation recognizes the rights and title of Indigenous Peoples, guided by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (2007) and the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015).

Indigenous people who are opposed to unchecked tar sands development and many report illnesses caused by toxic pollution from the largest industrial development on the planet.

A new report «Mapping REDD + and Land Use Financial Flows in Brazil» by research organizations Forest Trends and IDESAM shows how over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies, and highlights new ways to make these investments more effective at reducing emissions, including by making payments directly available to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies such as subnational governments, farmers, local communities and indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

«REDD can benefit biodiversity conservation as well as indigenous and rural peoples,» Nepstad wrote in a report co-authored last year with Stephan Schwartzman of Environmental Defense and Paulo Moutinho of the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM).

The safeguards information system discussion identified commonality between parties concerning: • the full and effective participation of relevant stakeholders including indigenous peoples and local communities; • the need to build on existing systems; • regular international reporting, including biennial reports; and • participation of observers in Submissions and Expert Meetings and Workshops.

K. McLean, G., A. Ramos - Costillo, T. Gross, S. Johnston, M. Vierros, and R. Noa, 2009: Report on the Indigenous Peoples» Global Summit on Climate Change.

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative in the fight against drug trafficking, migratory agriculture, and poverty.

Some of the highlights include SBSTA echoing the AWG - LCA in recognizing the need to engage indigenous peoples and local communities and develop guidance for their involvement in monitoring and reporting.

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative...

The Guardian reports that Peru's army is poised to deploy in the Amazon rainforest to lift blockades across rivers and roads by indigenous people opposed to oil, gas, logging and mining projects.

A number of reports from prominent non-governmental organizations, including World Resources Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research, have found that forest communities and indigenous forest people are good at protecting the forests they live in, provided they are given the collective right to do so.

At an event on October 7, WRI will launch a new report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, which finds for the first time that relatively modest investments in secure land tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentally.

The report estimates that while indigenous people account for only 6 percent of the global population, their territories cover 20 percent of the land across the globe.

The report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission released Wednesday finds a widespread feeling among racial minorities and indigenous people that their complaints about the practice have been ignored.

This report asserted Indigenous and treaty rights in Canada (see Indigenous People: Government Policy).

All persons who self - identify as Indigenous, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit, have Gladue rights and may prepare a Gladue report for consideration during sentencing.

Full PDF of this issue Table of Contents Featured Articles: The Law and Canada's Indigenous Peoples Special Report: Tough Decisions Departments Columns Featured Articles: The Law and Canada's Indigenous Peoples The Inuit live in Canada, Greenland, Russia, Denmark, and Alaska.

That report looks at the numbers of lawyers in the firm broken down into specific groups such as indigenous black, Mi» kmaq, persons with disabilities, women, and visible minorities.

Background information on Indigenous peoples under Canadian law, and issues specific to Indigenous women, are also discussed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)'s 2015 report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada.

The author also discusses the blood quantum rule, cultural appropriation, Indigenous use of intellectual property laws, Two - Spirit identities (Indigenous transgender individuals), the landmark Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot» in cases (recognition of Aboriginal title), non-benign myths about Indigenous peoples, the six - volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) final report on the residential school system where at least 6,000 Indigenous children died, Canada's Stolen Generations (between 1960 and 1990, 70 - 90 % of Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their homes and placed into non-Indigenous homes), Inuit relocations, the issue of access to safe drinking water for First Nations communities, the five - volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - peoples, the six - volume Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) final report on the residential school system where at least 6,000 Indigenous children died, Canada's Stolen Generations (between 1960 and 1990, 70 - 90 % of Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their homes and placed into non-Indigenous homes), Inuit relocations, the issue of access to safe drinking water for First Nations communities, the five - volume report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - Peoples, Indigenous lands, education, treaties, and treaty - making.

The creation of the fund stems from the urgency for reconciliation with indigenous peoples, especially with the information brought to light by the release of 2015's final report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

On November 3, 2015, the government of Canada established the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba, in recognition that achieving reconciliation with Indigenous peoples goes beyond the mandate of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement agreement and will continue beyond the December 2015 release of the Truth and Reconciliation Report.

Amnesty International's 2016 report Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Gender, Indigenous Rights, and Energy Development in Northeast British Columbia found that energy projects in northeast BC have had unintended consequences for wellness and safety, with a disproportionate impact on Indigenous peoples and especially Indigenous women and girls.

Canada Report says indigenous people in Toronto are far more likely to be homeless, unemployed and hungry, Toronto Star

Overall, the justice system in Ontario has improved in the last year, but it still has glaring shortcomings in judicial efficiency and the disproportionate representation of Indigenous people in prisons, according to a new justice system report card.

Reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have already found Canada to be in violation of the rights of Indigenous women and girls to life, security of the person, and equality.

This report investigated the disproportionality and disparities experienced by Indigenous and Black people in child welfare, confirmed and validated the concerns -LSB-...]

«This decision breathes light and life into those documents that we've heard so much about in the last year of so,» she adds, referring to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, which contained a number of «calls to action,» and the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The report noted that about six out of ten incidents of violent crimes against Indigenous people go unreported and that demographic information is not always collected.

Over 300 recommendations were made to reform the justice system by the report, and it caused the Manitoba government to re-examine the way it treated Indigenous peoples.