Sentences with phrase «indigenous black community»

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The state - run company has been responsible for a series of spills in recent years, including one in 2014 that turned the Aguarico River black with crude and affected indigenous communities all the way to the Peruvian border.

This woman owned, small business supports the LGBTQIA + community, Black Lives Matter, supports the rights of immigrants and the rights of indigenous people, religious freedoms, civil rights, and this business will always stand for the simple truth that women are PEOPLE who have the fundamental right to reproductive choice.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

When I speak, it is from a place of justice — not only for black people whose rights have been violated — but also for indigenous communities, women, and nature itself.

Throughout her career Jihan as worked to build the capacity and collective strength of Indigenous communities throughout North America who are impacted by energy development and climate change, first in her position as Coordinator of the Native Energy & Climate Campaign at the Indigenous Environmental Network, and now as Executive Director of the Black Mesa Water Coalition.

said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

Dallas Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, part of the It Takes Roots delegation said,» We head to COP23 as part of Indigenous Environmental Network and with the U.S. People's Delegation to continue the to rise up as Indigenous, Black, and Brown communities against extraction, colonialism and to call for real action from elected leaders who have pledged to address climate change.»

Her community service includes serving as a member of the Indigenous Blacks & Mi «kmaq Initiative Advisory Council and the IB&M Standing Committee at the Schulich School of Law, and she provides pro bono legal services to individuals through the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services (ISIS).

Law school dean and chairwoman of the Council of Canadian Law Deans, Camille Cameron, took to the podium to give the Dalhousie community an update on their alma mater, including building renovations, faculty retirements and that the Indigenous Blacks and Mi» kmaq initiative, launched in 1989, will graduate its 200th student in Dal's 200th year.

Today, our profession's resistance to the recruitment and advancement of racialized lawyers, especially among the black and indigenous communities who suffer daily overt racism in Canadian society, is a wrong that must be righted.

The Anti-Racism Strategy must also recognize the differential impact of racism as experienced by different racialized communities, and must contain specific goals and consultation plans with respect to Indigenous and Black communities.

Young Indigenous people variously speak of being alienated from both black and white communities, of difficulty in coming to terms with the past, of living somewhere «between two worlds», and being unable to find a point of balance (pp65 - 80).

Because of the diversity of black lives, it would be easier to say look at the whole budget, because it all impacts on Indigenous individuals and communities.

Still with Aboriginal health, this piece on Croakey addresses the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the necessity to «promote and support community - based programs to meet Indigenous people's needs» and this article tackles a really fascinating issue — why «green - black» alliances, between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and wider environmental movements, are less simple than they seem.

This can be seen most obviously in the environments in which many minority groups live: the segregation of black communities in the US and the forced removal of Indigenous populations across the globe, he said.

She is currently the national Executive Producer of SBS Radio Living Black, and Global Visiting Professor at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, specialising in cultural competency in writing and reporting in Indigenous communities.

This conference would also provide such a space, he said, pointing as an example to a workshop session on «Healing from homophobia and preventing suicide» being led by Dameyon Bonson, the founder of Black Rainbow, Australia's peak suicide prevention organisation for Indigenous LGBTI people, their families and their communities.