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Kenya at 50: Unrealized rights of minorities and indigenous peoples

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minorityrights.org –

To mark Kenya’s 50th anniversary of self-rule, this report reviews the current status of minority and indigenous groups in Kenya. Focusing on Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, this report pays particular attention to how legal and policy changes over the last five years have addressed the social, economic and political challenges confronting minorities. The present state of minority and indigenous groups within Kenya’s dynamic context has been shaped by conflicting forces of regression and progress more...

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D C on March 12, 2012

Home Internet for remote indigenous communities

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accan.org.au –

The report documents the circumstances and experiences of 3 remote Indigenous communities in central Australia: Kwale Kwale, Imangara and Mungalawurru. Residents in these communities provided significant insight into the social, economic and cultural aspects of communications access and use. This important evidence is used in the report to examine the drivers and barriers to home internet for remote communities. The report also discusses existing policy approaches to internet access, with a more...

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D C on September 06, 2011

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2011: Focus on Women's Rights

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reliefweb.int –

This volume seeks to highlight many of the barriers and issues that must be tackled for minority and indigenous women to realize full economic, social and political equality. It includes compelling depictions of the experiences of women belonging to marginalized and dispossessed populations, who are often uprooted from their lands and communities due to discriminatory government policies, the impact of armed conflicts, and the actions of private social, political and economic interest groups. more...

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Sonia Hossain on August 03, 2011

The Impact of Digital Technology on Indigenous Peoples

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ethnosproject.org –

Currently, Indigenous peoples are utilizing tools such as video conferencing technology, digitization of documents, and radio broadcast over the Internet. The majority of these technologies are used to preserve and promote Indigenous culture, tradition, history, and human rights advocacy. The United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union assembled the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with Indigenous people’s particular needs in mind – seeking to gain equitable more...

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D C on August 16, 2011

Culture and disasters: a beautiful mind of indigenous flood legend from Papua

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preventionweb.net –

This issue focuses on local knowledge preserved in the almost forgotten flood legend from Arso, Keerom, Papua Province, Indonesia. The authors argue that local risk management knowledge is printed in cultural 'media' such as legends and myths. The local knowledge provides clues on human-environment relations in the past that is almost forgotten which can be beneficial for present generation.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 06, 2012

The Land Holds Us

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amnesty.org.au –

All Indigenous Peoples have the fundamental human right to their traditional lands. This report documents the efforts of the Alyawarr and Anmatyerr Peoples of the Utopia homelands in Central Australia to assert their identities and connection to their traditional homelands. It shows Alyawarr and Anmatyerr Peoples’ ongoing struggle to live a healthy life on their homelands despite a series of legislative and policy changes made at a national, state, territory and local level over the last decade more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 01, 2012

The Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Uganda

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chr.up.ac.za –

There are a number of groups of persons in Uganda that have been identified as satisfying the international criteria for the identification of indigenous peoples. These include the Batwa, Benet and Karamajong. These people have historically suffered, and continue to suffer, disempowerment and discrimination on economic, social and cultural grounds. The report will show the human rights concerns of the identified indigenous and tribal peoples. Only a few comprising of the Batwa and Karamajong more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 31, 2012

Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge (paperback edition)

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participatorygis.blogspot.com –

Berghahn Books has announced the recent publication of a paperback edition of Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge, edited by Serena Heckler. In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. The contributors to this volume argue that to accurately and appropriately describe TEK, the more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on February 08, 2012

How scientists can join forces with indigenous people

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Growing political action by indigenous peoples has led to increased recognition of the importance of their knowledge, and scientists are coming to recognise its value. In the Arctic, where efforts to understand the effects of climate are urgent, traditional knowledge has received increased attention over the past few decades. Sami reindeer herders work with scientists to document snow conditions and study what they suggest about herding practices under future climate conditions. And in 2007, more...

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D C on October 24, 2011

Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies

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aiatsis.gov.au –

It is essential that Indigenous peoples be participants in any research project that concerns them, sharing an understanding of the aims and methods of the research, and sharing the results of this work.At every stage, research with and about Indigenous peoples must be founded on a process of meaningful engagement and reciprocity between the researcher and the Indigenous people. It is important that the Institute's Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies embody the best standards more...

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D C on February 15, 2011

Trade Policies and Ethnic Discrimination in Mexico

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networkideas.org –

Given that the indigenous population in Mexico is the poorest segment of its society, this paper explores how inequality has been affected by the trade liberalization put into effect after the eruption of the debt crisis in the early eighties and the coming into force of NAFTA. The focus is on the agricultural sector for two reasons: first, the regions with the highest concentration of indigenous population are specialized in agriculture; second, agriculture has been identified as the main more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 14, 2011

The Indigenous People in Burundi- 2007 Report

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forestpeoples.org –

The report provides an update on the state of affairs of indigenous people in Burundi.

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Kasem Ali on July 23, 2009

Indigenous peoples in the Philippines

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undp.org.ph –

In the Philippines, Indigenous Peoples (IPs) have been subject to historical discrimination and marginalization from political processes and economic benefit.They often face exclusion, loss of ancestral lands, displacement, pressures to and destruction of traditional ways of life and practices, and loss of identity and culture. In extreme situations, social and political discontent has erupted into armed conflict – the 40-year old armed conflict in Mindanao, involving secessionists and more...

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D C on January 13, 2011

Monitoring Indigenous and Tribal Peoples’ Rights through ILO Conventions

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ilo.org –

The implementation of all ILO Conventions is monitored by the ILO supervisory bodies. This allows a continuous dialogue to take place between the Organization and the Governments concerned with the involvement of employers’ and workers’ organizations (trade unions), with a view to strengthening the implementation of these Conventions.

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Moushumi Biswas on August 10, 2010

Building Indigenous social capital in an online world

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journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au –

Social capital is an elusive concept and there is considerable debate as to what is actually meant by the term. According to Stone (2000) the essence of social capital is quality social relations. Winter (2000a), suggests that social capital encompasses “…social relations of mutual benefit characterised by norms of trust and reciprocity”. Social capital is, according to Grootaert (1998), “… the glue that holds societies together and without which there can be no economic growth or human more...

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D C on May 24, 2011

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