Sentences with phrase «indigenous lands in the state»

The Huni Kuin live in the border of Brazil and Peru, however, they are also spread out amongst several indigenous lands in the state of Acré.

Not exact matches

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

Those who are indigenous to this land we call «The United States of America» have been long misrepresented and pushed out of American history textbooks in favor of glorifying those who now rule this nation and represent the dominant culture.

Additionally, Local Engagement Officers, other Commonwealth Environmental Water Office staff and State and local water delivery partners are working with the Ta - Ru Lands Board of Management, Narri Narri and Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, and Ngiyampaa Wayilwan in the Macquarie Marshes.

Taal Levi, from Oregon State University (USA), and an author on the study, said: «In recent decades, Amazonian countries have made major strides in expanding parks and strengthening indigenous land rightIn recent decades, Amazonian countries have made major strides in expanding parks and strengthening indigenous land rightin expanding parks and strengthening indigenous land rights.

Three mysterious canisters plummet from the sky, each landing in a different corner of the United States and all of them sniffed at, and in some cases even eaten, by a trio of creatures indigenous to those regions of the country.

To be precise, states need to take necessary steps to regulate the acts of logging and property development companies in the context of resource exploitation in the lands of indigenous people (Background Paper 3).

- Has THE TREE OF ALL KNOWLEDGES, itinerant exhibition / project held by Sikamabiu Indigenous Community in Yanomami Indigenous Land — Roraima State.

- Gives painting workshop in Maturuca Indigenous Community, Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land, Roraima State.

However, indigenous and peasant organizations called it unconstitutional, stating that it would destroy their agricultural economy, threaten traditional systems of land tenure and drive thousands to immigrate to city slums in search of work.

And it's no less troubling when human rights are violated in the name of conservation or renewable energy; the United States evicted indigenous populations from their land in order to establish the national parks, for example, or, more recently, the massive land grabs that have taken place in the global south, where land is cheap, for biofuel production, solar plants, and wind farms.

But, as examined in CSPW's previous post, Governor Bill Walker and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — a state that has first - hand experience with oil spills — complain that the President is not doing enough to fill the Trans - Alaska Pipeline with oil, even as they work to relocate indigenous communities whose lands are being lost to ice melt and erosion.

A few statutes provide for compensation to be paid in recognition of the disturbance to traditional land from mining.77 A number of regimes provide for royalties, or an amount equivalent to the royalties received by the state or federal government, to be paid to the Indigenous owners.

So one of the fundamental principles that the Democrats base their support for this disallowance motion on is the fact that the State regimes are based on legislation which, at the end of the day, will not hold up», Senator Woodley as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19520 The speaker from the Greens party said «I will be voting for this disallowance because the regulations brought forward from Western Australian legislation do not uphold the spirit of the legislation that has gone through this parliament in the last decade of the High Court rulings that Indigenous people should have a real say in what is happening on their land», Senator Brown as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19524

Prior: To be meaningful, informed consent must be sought sufficiently in advance of any authorization by the State or third parties or commencement of activities by a company that affect indigenous peoples and their lands, territories and resources.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the body which monitors the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 40 calls upon state parties to the Convention to eliminate racial discrimination in relation to property rights through the return of, or compensation for, land taken from indigenous peoples.

The unique and fundamental relationship that Indigenous people have with their land is confirmed again in the Final Report by Miguel Alfonso Martinez in his Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous poIndigenous people have with their land is confirmed again in the Final Report by Miguel Alfonso Martinez in his Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous poindigenous populations.

Commonwealth parliamentarians have previously commented on the danger that progress will occur only in those areas with resources of interest to government and industry.80 Native title might then become a system to assist the state governments with land management, rather than to recognise and protect Indigenous connection to land.

The procedural rights provided in the NTA [5]- to be notified and to comment where state governments propose future acts as part of implementing state land use policy - are also important to Indigenous participation on land the subject of a native title claim, even though they are less extensive than the right to negotiate.

These standards can be considered in relation to engagement with Indigenous communities generally and in relation to the implementation of the NIC Principles through changes to State and Commonwealth land rights regimes.

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A recent United Nations report by Special Rapporteur, Miguel Alfonso Martinez, Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous populations, [12] considers the issue of «recognition of indigenous peoples» right to their lands and their resources,» [13] to be of central importance in establishing a renewed relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenoindigenous populations, [12] considers the issue of «recognition of indigenous peoples» right to their lands and their resources,» [13] to be of central importance in establishing a renewed relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenoindigenous peoples» right to their lands and their resources,» [13] to be of central importance in establishing a renewed relationship between Indigenous and non-IndigenoIndigenous and non-IndigenousIndigenous people:

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.

The Attorney - General stated that «being unable to meet the required standard for a determination of native title at a particular point in history does not mean those Indigenous people do not have strong relationships with the land and with each other.»

The recognition of Indigenous law and continuing connection to land encourages the maintenance of distinct Indigenous cultures within the Australian state, in rejection of assimilation (which sought to break down traditional ways) and in support of self - determination.

For example, those Indigenous groups in more remote regions, such as those in Cape York, Queensland who have had Aboriginal freehold lands returned to them under state land rights regimes may be in a better position to achieve their cultural, social, and economic aspirations than even those who have been successful in a native title process.

In Queensland, any group of Indigenous people may claim «claimable» land on the basis of traditional affiliation54 or historical association, 55 as well as economic or cultural viability.56 This acknowledges the greater impact of colonisation within these states, which saw substantial numbers of Indigenous people removed from their traditional lands to other regions under government powers to remove and confine Aboriginal people to any Aboriginal reserve.57 It also recognises that this removal did not sever the continuing connection of Indigenous peoples to the land, both their traditional country and reserves.

Well - known examples of this include the SA statewide negotiations, 77 Burrup negotiations, 78 and the Queensland Government's assistance for authorisation meetings to finalise Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs).79 In other instances, however, state governments have provided funding not just for specific negotiations, but for an ongoing process.

The State party should take the necessary steps in order to secure for the indigenous inhabitants a stronger role in decision - making over their traditional lands and natural resources (Article 1, para 2).

When the Australian Government and some other states were moving towards Indigenous land rights in the 1970s and 1980s, the Queensland Government resisted.

These procedural rights are particularly significant in determining whether and at what level Indigenous people are engaged in negotiations concerning state - wide land use policy including water management, infrastructure, national parks, agricultural activities etc..

So long as the exercise of the state's power to extinguish Indigenous interests in land is constitutionally authorised then the court is powerless to contain it.

In 2006, the former Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, stated that reforms to Aboriginal land tenure in the Northern Territory to introduce township leasing would «allow Aboriginal Australians in parts of the Northern Territory who have been denied rights for many years to be able to own their own home»In 2006, the former Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, stated that reforms to Aboriginal land tenure in the Northern Territory to introduce township leasing would «allow Aboriginal Australians in parts of the Northern Territory who have been denied rights for many years to be able to own their own home»in the Northern Territory to introduce township leasing would «allow Aboriginal Australians in parts of the Northern Territory who have been denied rights for many years to be able to own their own home»in parts of the Northern Territory who have been denied rights for many years to be able to own their own home».

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 VictoLand 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 Victoland aspirations in Victoria.

But now it is overgrown by even denser foliage in the form of the Native Title Act... and companion State legislation... The legal advance that commenced with Mabo v Queensland [No 2], or perhaps earlier, has now attracted such difficulties that the benefits intended for Australia's indigenous peoples in relation to native title to land and waters are being channeled into costs of administration and litigation that leave everyone dissatisfied and many disappointed.

According to the President of the National Native Title Tribunal the number of Indigenous land use agreements has doubled over the last two years with more than 300 ILUAs registered across most States and Territories, covering more than 11 percent of the country (as at October 2007).23 All Indigenous land use agreements are shown in the following table.

The report gives these a more concrete form, in its «Principles for State and international actions regarding indigenous land, territories and resources» (57).

This analysis will inform the debate and assist in clarifying misunderstandings about Indigenous land under existing Commonwealth, State and Territory based land rights and the national native title system that have arisen during the debate.

In addition, should Australia go down this path for Indigenous communally owned lands, the experience of the United States and New Zealand are outlined to provide some guidance as to what pitfalls and opportunities policy makers can expect from the NIC Principles.

In the United States of America and New Zealand there have been significant attempts to convert Indigenous customary land to individual freehold titles for many years.

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,

In each State (except Western Australia) and the mainland Territories there exists some form of statutory land rights for Indigenous people.

Article 27 States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples» laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used.

Federal and state parliaments around Australia have enacted more than twenty separate pieces of legislation to provide or recognise Indigenous interests in land.

... in many regions of the world indigenous peoples have been, and are still being, discriminated against and deprived of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and in particular that they have lost their land and resources to colonists, commercial companies and State enterprises.

This Part looks at the land leasing arrangements in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Norfolk Island, and the experiences of privatising Indigenous land in New Zealand and the United States of America.

The forms that ownership takes in Australia include the recognition of native title rights (pre-existing rights to land that pre date British settlement), federal, state and territory Indigenous land rights legislation (which provide for grants of land from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councland that pre date British settlement), federal, state and territory Indigenous land rights legislation (which provide for grants of land from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councland rights legislation (which provide for grants of land from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councland from the government), national parks legislation, reserve systems or the purchase of land by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Councland by the Indigenous Land Corporation and Land CouncLand Corporation and Land CouncLand Councils.

The State party should take the necessary steps in order to secure for the indigenous inhabitants a stronger role in decision - making over their traditional lands and resources (Article 1, para 2).

In addition, the Queensland Government has advised me that the State is «in the process of seeking to negotiate throughout Queensland a number of other Indigenous Land Use Agreements which have native title consent for public housing and infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as their subject matter»In addition, the Queensland Government has advised me that the State is «in the process of seeking to negotiate throughout Queensland a number of other Indigenous Land Use Agreements which have native title consent for public housing and infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as their subject matter»in the process of seeking to negotiate throughout Queensland a number of other Indigenous Land Use Agreements which have native title consent for public housing and infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as their subject matter».

States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples» laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used.