Sentences with phrase «identity of indigenous»

The recognition of the distinct identity of Indigenous people and the cultural, economic and political values that characterise this identity are essential to the development agenda of Indigenous people.

Linking economic development outcomes to social, ecological, political and cultural factors supports an approach which integrates the distinct identity of Indigenous people and their unique relationship to land into the development process.

Through native title, governments and courts had an opportunity to give legal recognition to the distinct political identity of Indigenous people.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recognised that measures that seek to protect the culture and identity of Indigenous peoples may constitute legitimate differential treatment and therefore be non-discriminatory.

The most recent statistical profile of the material circumstances of Indigenous peoples» lives in Australia (48) indicates that addressing their disadvantage through policies that take no account of the unique social, political and cultural identity of Indigenous people has not proven successful.

It was an opportunity to give recognition to the distinct political identity of Indigenous people and the cultural, economic and political values that characterise this identity.

This shift in thinking was important because it heralded a new approach to redressing historical dispossession based, not on the belated generosity of the State that had benefited from it, but rather as a matter of right, based on the distinct identity of Indigenous people, their laws and customs.

It can not be said, and the government has not demonstrated in either its submissions to the CERD Committee or its submissions to the present Committee, that the disparate impact of the four abovementioned sets of provisions can be justified by reference to the aims of CERD ie to overcome racial discrimination and to protect the cultural identity of Indigenous people.

Thus in relation to measures that establish «special tribunals to deal with native title matters», (44) there is no particular requirement that these tribunals meet Australia's obligation to overcome racial discrimination or protect the cultural identity of Indigenous people.

[106] Such curtailment is contrary to human rights norms which require adequate recognition and protection of native title in order to safeguard the distinct identities of indigenous peoples and hence achieve substantive racial equality.

There are also increasing numbers of Indigenous associations being formed to represent the interests and reflect the identities of Indigenous groups and communities.

Not exact matches

Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

The prime example of this being the development since the nineteenth century of an indigenous sense of Indian national identity and the construction of a single «world» religion called «Hinduism.»

Francis had previously urged Chileans to listen to indigenous people who are «often forgotten, whose rights and culture need to be protected lest that part of this nation's identity and richness be lost».

In Latin American Pentecostalism, one discovers the reflection of indigenous movements and waves of immigrants in search of new identities.

Original from Chinese indigenous organic materials with identity and traceable control for the whole supplying chain, Fenchem supplies super quality of organic certified plant oil and green tea extracts.

In a paper, published in Antiquity, researchers have provided new understandings about the formation of emergent cultural identities in the Caribbean that challenge historic accounts of indigenous extinction.

And as indigenous people lose these vital aspects of their lives, their identity is lost, too.

She's also exploring whether those with a stronger sense of their indigenous identities are less likely to participate in unprotected sex, drinking, and gangs.

Dr Jago Cooper said: «For the millions of indigenous peoples living in the Caribbean before European arrival, caves represented portals into a spiritual realm, and therefore these new discoveries of the artists at work within them captures, the essence of their belief systems and the building blocks of their cultural identity.»

The MDGs did not reflect the needs and concerns of indigenous peoples on self - determination over their territories, natural resources, cultures, identities and languages.

Students discuss culture, identity and the impact of government - mandated residential schools for indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada using photography and reporting by Daniella Zalcman.

She also holds a BA with honors from the University of Washington in Anthropology, where she completed a thesis in 2010 on the topic of language and identity among indigenous individuals in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Against the advice of Thomson, trees had been planted and they had slowly choked the course of its indigenous heath and bracken, its width and, ultimately, its identity.

Traveling to more than 40 countries as a solo female traveler on a mission to make the world a better place, she devotes herself to bringing enlightenment towards indigenous cultures and their strifes to maintain their ancestral identities in the face of the ever - pressing modern world.

«As with other coastal indigenous nations, Chumash people are restoring our heritage of intimacy with the sea for the dual purpose of protecting her and as a means of rediscovering our dignity and identity as a people sprung from this place.»

One of the most cosmopolitan islands in Greece, Mykonos is known for its beaches and diverse nightlife but manages to retain a strong indigenous identity despite its popularity.

The pervasive theme of reclamation and empowerment resonates in Shelley Niro's work, which redefines contemporary Indigenous experience and identity, particularly for women.

Collectively, these artists explore notions of culture, identity and the complex colonial histories of Indigenous people using photography, film and new media.

Her work focuses on themes of identity, and challenges stereotypes and colonial representations of Indigenous peoples, with a particular focus on Indigenous women.

She is a member of Black Salt Collective, whose members are all Black, brown, and indigenous women, creating work about ancestry and identity in a contemporary context.

In addition to addressing concerns of identity and gender, this project calls attention to Gutierrez's heritage as a bi-racial Latin American: «I am committed to glorifying the beauty and artistry of Guatemalan crafts and textiles, both preserving traditional representations of dress, and bringing them into the 21st century are crucial in sustaining Guatemala's indigenous artisan communities.

Merging the spiritual traditions of their native Africa with those of the indigenous populations and some Christian elements, they created their own festival and pageant traditions, an idiosyncratic mix of shared and imported identities and memories.

A pioneer of Conceptual art, the Los Angeles — based artist has worked with composer Sean Griffin to translate language from four influential speeches or manifestos into musical notation: Malcolm X's last public speech, made in 1965 in Detroit's Ford Auditorium; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999), by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred; «Indocumentalismo Manifesto — an Emerging Socio - Political Ideological Identity» (2010), by Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo; and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, written by French activist and writer Olympe De Gouges in 1791.

At the Whitney Museum, Durham's movement from an explicit engagement with Native identity to one more focused on indigenous concerns with colonialism and power (some of which may be the result of ongoing public attempts to disprove his earlier claims of Cherokee heritage) began to occur after the first gallery of work.

Her work demonstrates a keen interest in communicating complex ideas around Indigenous identity and bicultural living through the examination of cultural histories.

In Takndare's work, issues of Papuan people and identity take centre stage, focusing on how indigenous Papuans have transformed as a result of political changes.

Kothis (effeminate, underprivileged, homosexual men), Hijras (eunuchs), and Giriyas (partners of kothis and hijras) are indigenous terms used by queer working class and transgendered men, in their own dialect, to de ne their particular sexual identities.

Eusebio Siosi (Riohacha, 1971) is a visual artist, architect and cultural producer who works in collaborative projects with the indigenous Wayuu ethnic community and the cultural identity of which he is part.

Her curatorial work has largely concentrated on re-contextualizing Indigenous time - based media to examine the underlying philosophical complexity of the work as well as rethinking how culture and identity are framed by contemporary artistic discourses.

Thus, the problems of transculture in one's artistic practice — as it is called today — may focus either on the Other as a source of identity, or on one's changing sense of Being in relation to indigenous forms of culture.

The show is broken up into four sections that provide a distinctly indigenous view of identity, notions of time, relationship to the landscape (and the resources they hold) and how history is told and archived.

Arranged in three sections — Landscape and Identity, The Avant - Garde Explosion, and Breaking Boundaries: Post 1960s Diversity & Dystopia — the show will explore the modern colonial history of Latin America; the importance of landscape painting in the formation of distinctive national identities; the influence of Symbolism, the Latin American role in the formation of an international style; the variety of Latin American avant - gardes including Surrealism and hard - edged Abstraction; modern depictions of indigenous peoples and customs; progress and modernity in the age of the metropolis; and transgressive challenges to prevailing artistic idioms.

Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics November 28, 2016 - February 4, 2017 at Intermedia Arts Read more.

«If we're starting to talk about culture and identity and lack of communication between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people — often culture and language will be at the root of any conflict around the world.

Kiefer studied with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s, but soon began to develop his own, deliberately indigenous set of subjects and symbols that he used to explore the fraught territory of German history and identity.

Trudeau made youth involvement in politics a pillar of his political identity, yet he seems to turn a deaf ear when we speak up on Indigenous rights and climate science.

The impacts associated with these changes are both positive and negative, and are most pronounced in relation to the migration patterns, health and range of animals and plants that indigenous groups depend on for their livelihood and cultural identity.

-- Loss of common pool resources, sense of place, and identity, especially among indigenous populations in rural coastal zones.

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 - making.