Sentences with phrase «indigenous rights agenda»

The Minister argued that this debate has seen the focus shift to the «real issues, not the distractions» by moving beyond the «simplistic debate about an indigenous rights agenda», including such things as an apology and compensation.

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If the government is to honour its commitment to a progressive trade agenda, a Canada - China FTA must ensure that human rights, labour rights, Indigenous sovereignty and environmental sustainability are protected (and prioritized) rather than jeopardized by the expansion of investor rights.

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustaIndigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustaindigenous rights, justice and sustainability.

In this way, self - determination builds on the right of free, prior and informed consent by empowering indigenous communities to set their own agenda and determine their own futures.

The rights agenda presented by the Minister's speech effectively strips away the right of Indigenous Australians to define their own destiny, governance and culture as autonomous peoples and promotes their absorption within rather than their co-existence with the Government's neo-rationalist conception of society as an «aggregation of individuals».

It is therefore timely to consider an agenda to ensure adequate protection of Indigenous peoples rights into the future.

It is also simply not enough to suggest, as in the past year, that the rights agenda is over by splintering the focus on Indigenous affairs and shifting attention from one topical issue to another, whether it be violence or substance abuse or petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities.

To do so would be unlikely to result in a sustainable relationship between exploration companies and Indigenous communities.3 In any event, if the Action Agenda concludes with recommendations contrary to Australia's human rights obligations, governments (both Commonwealth and State) would be precluded from acting on the recommendations.4

The apology has the potential to be a landmark event in «righting» relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in this country, by setting us on a new shared path to the future and by laying the platform to take the reconciliation agenda to the next level.

The content and value of the Action Agenda will be diminished if it contains material or recommendations that are inconsistent with Indigenous human rights.

More specifically, Agenda 21 states that «Indigenous people and their communities shall enjoy the full measure of human rights and fundamental freedoms without hindrance or discrimination».

[3] D Lee, Intervention on behalf of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 3rd session, agenda item 3 (12 July 2010).

I also outline a continuing agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with a focus on a human rights approach using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration) as the rights approach using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration) as the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration) as the guide.

This approach to Indigenous rights was also reflected in the 1987 Rio Declaration, which recognises the vital role of Indigenous communities knowledge and traditional practices in environmental management, and the 1992 Agenda 21, which promotes the development of national policy approaches to Indigenous participation in land and resource management and caring for country.

At the highest level, sitting atop the myriad of specific issues with which I and my team engage, there are four key inter-related national issues: Constitutional reform, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [2], progress towards Closing the Gap on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, and the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in this country, an issue at the forefront of my agenda.

The indigenous caucus, on behalf of all indigenous observers, proposed that the agenda of the Expert Mechanism include a permanent item on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenouindigenous caucus, on behalf of all indigenous observers, proposed that the agenda of the Expert Mechanism include a permanent item on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenouindigenous observers, proposed that the agenda of the Expert Mechanism include a permanent item on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of IndigenousIndigenous Peoples.

The exploration in this year's report of Indigenous human rights protections, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and Indigenous health equality provide the basis for identifying the important steps government needs to take over the following eighteen months, to set the new agenda for Indigenous affairs.