Sentences with phrase «indigenous peoples limit»

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-- The term «most vulnerable communities and populations» means communities and populations that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, including impoverished communities, children, women, and indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples of the world have long realized that the earth places natural limits we can not exceed.8 Modern science and experience is now confirming this in various ways, such as in the case of climate change, or the depletion of the oceans.

The Nicaraguan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA) is responsible for limiting encroachment on the reserve, but their efforts to restrict colonists» incursions have been weak, as colonists have more political backing than Indigenous Peoples.

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

* Associate membership category is limited to: Indigenous Peoples, municipalities, non-profit, government departments, and educational institutions.

While climate change threatens the health of every American, some people are more vulnerable and are most likely to be harmed, including: infants and children; pregnant women; older adults; people with disabilities; people with pre-existing or chronic medical conditions, including mental illnesses; people with low - income; and indigenous peoples, some other communities of color, and immigrants with limited English proficiency.

The increased competition over limited land has not only disrupted the balance of the ecosystem, but also physically displaced the indigenous peoples whose existence and livelihoods had played a key role in protecting the wildlife and environment.

«If we had more representative jury rolls, if there were far more indigenous people on the rolls, then you have a limited number of peremptory challenges, you wouldn't be able to use them to sway the jury in that way,» she says.

This falls short of Canada's commitment under Articles 19 and 32 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to consult with Indigenous peoples in order obtain free, prior and informed consent and underlines the limits of the duty to consult as a route to blocking government decPeoples to consult with Indigenous peoples in order obtain free, prior and informed consent and underlines the limits of the duty to consult as a route to blocking government decpeoples in order obtain free, prior and informed consent and underlines the limits of the duty to consult as a route to blocking government decisions.

The British Colonial Office supported a policy of assimilating Indigenous peoples, but left the mechanics of this endeavour largely up to Christian missionaries and put limited resources behind the concept of assimilation.

This includes, but is not limited to, working toward reconciliation of the colonial British - Canadian legal order, its past and ongoing harms to Indigenous people, and the fact that Indigenous people called this land their home before any other person knew it even existed.

Maybe before I die our courts will say that indigenous peoples have always engaged in trade, that the nature of the trade they engaged in changed over time, and as a result, the Canadian legal system will not limit Canada's indigenous peoples to the type of trade they engaged in 200 years ago.

Finally, the need to preserve Aboriginal title lands for the use and benefit of future generations is an inherent limit on Indigenous peoples» use of Aboriginal title lands as well as any attempt by the Crown to justify an infringement of Aboriginal title.

At this stage of the analysis, one can not avoid Canada's history of colonialism when considering whether limits on Charter - protected rights of Indigenous peoples can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

Indeed, limiting the search for these opportunities to within the legal system involves a great deal of investment on the part of Indigenous peoples with very little return in terms of outcomes on the ground.

Last year's Social Justice Report expressed concern at the existence of multiple processes to reform Indigenous policy that were taking place concurrently and the limited ability for Indigenous people and communities to engage in these processes.

The Social Justice Commissioner has focused this limited funding on supporting attendance at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and ensuring that participation in the Forum is coordinated and that feedback is provided once people return to Australia.

Consequently, financial barriers constrain access to some services; (iv) People living in the outer suburban fringes of large urban centres, where public transport infrastructure is more limited, can experience difficulties in gaining physical access to services; (v) Workforce issues experienced by service providers can restrict Indigenous people's access to serPeople living in the outer suburban fringes of large urban centres, where public transport infrastructure is more limited, can experience difficulties in gaining physical access to services; (v) Workforce issues experienced by service providers can restrict Indigenous people's access to serpeople's access to services.

Where the capacity of Indigenous people to participate is hampered, either through limited resources, limited skills or limited decision - making structures, provision must be made to address these deficiencies to enable genuine negotiation to take place.

The potential for native title to achieve real outcomes for Indigenous people is also limited by a general lack of recognition of commercial rights.

The Yorta Yorta decision demonstrates how the High Court's construction of sovereignty continues to limit the recognition that native title is able to give to the profound relationships between Indigenous people and their land.

Its economic value to Indigenous people is limited by the fact that it is inalienable.

However, existing intellectual property laws offer limited scope for the recognition of Indigenous peoples» rights in biodiversity related knowledge and practices.

The chapter suggests that failure to co-ordinate the goals of native title negotiations with these broader policies aimed at addressing the economic and social development of Indigenous people, not only limits the native title process; it also limits the capacity of the broader Indigenous policy to achieve its objectives.

The overarching concern however is that if constructed and too narrowly focused on practical reconciliation, to the exclusion of other important factors it could be co-opted as a political tool for reinforcing and legitimizing what is ultimately a limited approach to Indigenous issues... As a result, the framework as a stand alone mechanism has the potential to reinforce practical reconciliation and marginalize further other issues of significance to Indigenous peoples.

While this legislation gives the rivers protected status, Indigenous peoples are concerned that it also has the potential to limit rights to use the waterways for traditional activities such as hunting, and future economic development.

As Indigenous people are expected to be disproportionately affected by climate change, our adaptive capacity will be further limited by our dependency on natural resources and limited access to information.

The Committee is concerned, despite positive developments towards recognising the land rights of the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders through judicial decisions (Mabo 1992, Wik 1996) and enactment of the Native Title Act of 1993, as well as actual demarcation of considerable areas of land, that in many areas native title rights and interests remain unresolved and that the Native Title Amendments of 1998 in some respects limits the rights of indigenous persons and communities, in particular in the field of effective participation in all matters affecting land ownership and use, and affects their interests in native title lands, particularly pastoral lands.

The new government may not yet have fully realised it, but they have been left with a system for delivering on the government's commitments to Indigenous affairs and reconciliation that is severely limited in its capacity; that has developed and mutated out of an urgent desire to do better, but which has ignored or manipulated the evidence in adopting change; and which has become disconnected from the very people it is meant to service.

In its most recent country report on Australia, the Human Rights Committee stated its concern that the 1998 amendments to the NTA had limited the rights of indigenous persons and communities».

The training of Indigenous staff to manage existing programs was considered to be too limited, especially where this training merely seeks to prepare Indigenous people to work within conventional structures and methods.

The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, in her Mabo Lecture, reiterated the frustration that we as Indigenous peoples feel about our limited ability to use this significant asset to meaningfully leverage economic, social, and cultural outcomes.

New climate change related laws, regulations and markets may further decrease or limit Indigenous peoples» rights and interests through extinguishment or suspension of native title and by restricting rights in relation to access and use of land, natural and biological resources.

However, it is important not to particularize and limit the spectrum of possible projects in which Indigenous people can (and have a right to) participate.

Among the likely adverse consequences for these communities are: exacerbation of already overcrowded Indigenous communities (including in the larger settlements), deterioration in health status, and relocation of some people to the fringes of rural and regional towns where social and economic opportunities are more limited.

Close examination of the gains from reconciliation for Indigenous people listed in Government's response to CAR... suggests that the government is not providing a very clear delineation of outcomes for Indigenous people but a somewhat limited and even misleading view.

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.

While the Working on Country Program is limited to those who have already secured rights to their lands, environmental outcomes such as the maintenance, restoration, and protection of Australia's land, sea and heritage environment can be achieved by contracting Indigenous people to provide the necessary environmental services.

The first chapter of this year's report examines how the operation and administration of the right to negotiate by state and territory governments and administrative tribunals limit the right of Indigenous people to participate in decisions affecting their land and to determine their economic, social and cultural development.

limited attention to post-release needs of Indigenous prisoners (male or female) within the main policies for addressing Indigenous peoples over-representation in the criminal justice system - such as Justice Agreements;

In its Report on Indigenous funding 2001, the Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC) found that generally, the Commonwealth has «limited influence on the extent to which the distribution of mainstream programs reflects the relative needs of Indigenous people in different regions» (149).

As these contests intensify, they reveal that Indigenous peoples often have limited say over what happens on their country.

A worrying trend is that there has been limited progress in improving the situation of Indigenous peoples over the past five years.

They expressed concern at the way in which resource difficulties limited the benefit that Indigenous people were able to get from native title:

In Australia's current legal framework there are limited avenues for Indigenous people to hold the government to account for access to their human rights.

In recognising the potential imbalance between market value compensation and the actual intrinsic value of the land to Indigenous people, the National Native Title Tribunal has also recognised that market value for compensation of native title may be of limited use: 16

We are now coming on close to 2 years down the track of the new arrangements and there exist limited mechanisms for representative engagement of Indigenous peoples.

Even in these circumstances, the assessment model limits the opportunity that negotiation offers governments keen to address the economic and social development of Indigenous people.

[106] The McClure Report is accordingly limited in its approach to Indigenous - specific issues, especially given the systemic nature of Indigenous disadvantage, its basis in «historical exclusion, marginalisation, and now welfare dependency», [107] and diverse circumstances of Indigenous people.

This has had the effect of limiting the capacity of native title law to provide a sound basis for the economic and social development of Indigenous people.