Sentences with phrase «indigenous rights campaigns»

«If you look at Africa, we don't have indigenous peoples per se, because the indigenous peoples concept is grounded in historical circumstances,» he says, pointing out that most (but not all) indigenous rights campaigns focus on South America, where Spanish and Portuguese «exotics» and the native South Americans — the «indigenous» — have been haggling over resource rights for centuries.

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Today's panelists, speakers and moderators — covering topics ranging from the BC economy in 2030, the housing crisis, Indigenous rights, and campaign mapping in advance of the 2017 election — include:

THE distinguished American botanist and Amazonian ethnologist, Darren Posey, now based at the University of Oxford, has been leading a campaign to allocate intellectual property rights to indigenous people if their folklore is helpful to modern medicine and if the plants they collect to cure ailments are exploited by Western pharmaceutical companies.

For a lead role, he casts the indigenous Daniel (Aduviri), who spends his spare time campaigning against a British - American corporation that controls Bolivia's water, including poor people's right to collect rain water.

We in RSWG continued to campaign hard for the inclusion of ecosystem integrity, human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples in the operational part of the text.

Global Witness is calling on the Honduran government to launch an immediate investigation into the killing of Berta Cáceres, a high - profile activist who campaigned for the defence of indigenous land rights.

Since 2011 COPINH has been campaigning for the defence of the rights of the indigenous Lenca people, including that communities should be consulted before governments and companies can develop on their land.

But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.

In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.»

In Canada, its work focuses on national campaigns to freeze tar sands expansion, support opposition to pipelines like Energy East and Kinder Morgan, and work in solidarity with the struggle for Indigenous rights.

This is the case in Cameroon, for example, where Survival International (SI), which campaigns for the rights of Indigenous peoples, has made serious allegations over abuses of the Indigenous Baka people by forest guards employed by the government, but supported by WWF with uniforms, supplies and training, including human rights training.

Amazon Watch partners with indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.

The contribution of Eddie Mabo in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia which overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius («nobody's land») which characterised Australian law with regard to land and title was also recognised.

That's the underlying challenge in the submission to the proposed changes lodged yesterday, the final day for public input, by the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee — a coalition of Australia's leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous health and human rights organisations.

More than 20 Indigenous and human rights organisations have signed an open letter released today by the Change the Record campaign, calling on Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett to sto... Read more

Photo / painting above: Eddie Koiki Mabo (c. 29 June 1936 — 23 January 1992) from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and for his role in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia which overturned the legal doctrine of terra nullius («land belonging to nobody») which characterised Australian law with regard to land and title

Editor: Andrew Meehan, Indigenous Rights Public Policy and Advocacy Lead, Oxfam Australia; and Andrew Gargett, Senior Policy Officer, Australian Human Rights Commission and Executive Officer, Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee Secretariat and National Health Leadership Forum Secretariat

From 1956 to 1969, Melbourne general practitioner Barry Christophers published 25 letters in the MJA promoting the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement's political campaigns for equal rights for Indigenous people.

I also discuss the progress of the Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia, the Australian Government's engagement framework and the Close the Gap Campaign for Health Equality.

2016 marks a number of important milestones in Indigenous affairs, such as the 50 year anniversary of the Wave Hill walk off and 40 years since the introduction of land rights legislation in the Northern Territory, a decade since Close the Gap Campaign and 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Tom Calma, initiated a number of projects including the Close the Gap Campaign; the Indigenous Human Rights Network of Australia; and the development of community education materials on the Declaration.

The Indigenous Human Rights Network Australia (IHRNA) provides information on human rights reporting and campaigns, as well as networking opportunities for people who advocate for Indigenous human rRights Network Australia (IHRNA) provides information on human rights reporting and campaigns, as well as networking opportunities for people who advocate for Indigenous human rrights reporting and campaigns, as well as networking opportunities for people who advocate for Indigenous human rightsrights.

This has become known by many as the «close the gap» campaign, and it uses a human rights based approach to health programming to cut through the malaise that currently exists in Indigenous health policy.

In April 2007, 40 of Australia's leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous health peak bodies and human rights organisations joined forces to launch a campaign to «Close the Gap» on health inequality.

With this in mind, the campaign's aim is motivate and empower governments to take real, measurable human rights based action to achieve Indigenous health equality by 2030.

The rights based approach to Indigenous health inequality set out in the Social Justice Report 2005 and the Campaign as it gathered pace also attracted significant international attention.

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes a human rights based campaign to address the health inequality of Indigenous Australians.

What follows are a number of extracts and summary documents pertinent to the right to health, the Campaign for Indigenous Health Equality and the Close the Gap National Indigenous Health Equality Targets.

[3] A further non-exhaustive list of organisations who have publicly expressed support for the campaign includes: Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Amnesty International Australia; Australian Catholic Bishops» Social Justice Committee; Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine; Australian Council of Social Services; Australian Council for International Development; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; Australian Nursing Federation; Australian Red Cross; Caritas Australia; Clinical Nurse Consultants Association of NSW; Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales; Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University; Human Rights Law Resource Centre; Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth; Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales; Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney; Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council; National Association of Community Legal Centres; National Children's and Youth Law Centre; National Rural Health Alliance; Public Health Association of Australia; Quaker Services Australia; Rural Doctors Association of Australia; Save the Children Australia; Sax Institute; Sisters of Mercy Aboriginal Network NSW; Sisters of Mercy Justice Network Asia Pacific; UNICEF Australia; and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation.

(The list of agencies signed up to the campaign include: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Amnesty International Australia Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Australian Council of Social Service Australian Council for International Development Australian General Practice Network Australian Nursing Federation Australian Red Cross Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Caritas Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Diplomacy Training Program Fred Hollows Foundation Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Indigenous Law Centre Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council National Association of Community Legal Centres National Children's and Youth Law Centre National Rural Health Alliance Oxfam Australia Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Public Health Association of Australia Quaker Services Australia Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Association of Australia Save the Children Australia Telethon Institute for Child Health Research UNICEF Australia Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre)

The fight for Indigenous health equality is far from over but this campaign shows just what can happen when we come together for human rights.

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes a human rights based campaign to address the health inequality of Indigenous Australians and asks governments to commit to addressing the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within a set timeframe.