Organisations africa indigenous peoples of africa and the San People www.san.org.za Website with information about indigenous peoples of africa, especially about the San. http://www.iwgia.org/sw325.asp
Extractions: The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) is an advocacy network of indigenous peoples organisation in Africa. IPACC has over 70 members around the continent. It's Annual General meeting is held during the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (UNWGIP) in Geneva, Switzerland each year. Every second year the membership elects a representative body which functions as the IPACC Executive.
Sudan - The Muslim Peoples group is mostly descended from an indigenous population, and in 1990 were nearly a million people of West and resident nonnationals from West africa made up http://countrystudies.us/sudan/38.htm
Extractions: The Muslim Peoples Sudan Table of Contents In the early 1990s, the largest single category among the Muslim peoples consisted of those speaking some form of Arabic. Excluded were a small number of Arabic speakers originating in Egypt and professing Coptic Christianity. In 1983 the people identified as Arabs constituted nearly 40 percent of the total Sudanese population and nearly 55 percent of the population of the northern provinces. In some of these provinces (Al Khartum, Ash Shamali, Al Awsat), they were overwhelmingly dominant. In others (Kurdufan, Darfur), they were less so but made up a majority. By 1990 Ash Sharqi State was probably largely Arab. It should be emphasized, however, that the acquisition of Arabic as a second language did not necessarily lead to the assumption of Arab identity. Despite common language, religion, and self-identification, Arabs did not constitute a cohesive group. They were highly differentiated in their modes of livelihood and ways of life. Besides the major distinction dividing Arabs into sedentary and nomadic, there was an old tradition that assigned them to tribes, each said to have a common ancestor. The two largest of the supratribal categories in the early 1990s were the Juhayna and the Jaali (or Jaalayin). The Juhayna category consisted of tribes considered nomadic, although many had become fully settled. The Jaali encompassed the riverine, sedentary peoples from Dunqulah to just north of Khartoum and members of this group who had moved elsewhere. Some of its groups had become sedentary only in the twentieth century. Sudanese saw the Jaali as primarily indigenous peoples who were gradually arabized. Sudanese thought the Juhayna were less mixed, although some Juhayna groups had become more diverse by absorbing indigenous peoples. The Baqqara, for example, who moved south and west and encountered the Negroid peoples of those areas were scarcely to be distinguished from them.
ALA | Internet Resources: Indigenous Nations Access http//lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/page1g.html. IPACCThe indigenous peoples of africa Coordinating Committee. This http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/crlbackjan504/indige
Extractions: ALA American Library Association Search ALA Contact ALA ... Login Quicklinks Career Opportunities Chapters CHOICE Committees Directory of Leadership e-Learning Forms Information Literacy Marketing @ your library Publications Catalog RBM Recruiting to the Profession Scholarly Communication Sections Tipsheets Publications Research in the area of indigenous nations is inherently multidisciplinary, and any researcher soon discovers the layers of historical, legal, political, environmental, and cultural contexts throughout the information-gathering process. Digitized historical documents, maps, government reports (both historical and contemporary), legal cases, and specialized educational curriculum are accessible to researchers. Librarians in the field must perceive library resources in the broadest manner to be most effective to these researchers. Luckily, these efforts are facilitated through the hypertext and visual nature of the Internet. There are numerous quality Internet resources about indigenous peoples, individual communities, organizations, and particular topics. In addition to nonindigenous resources, strong effort has been made to include Internet resources created and maintained by indigenous peoples or nations. Increasingly, these groups have used the Internet to communicate and disseminate information about their communities and issues that affect their lives. This column contains a selective list of resources that cover international and regional resources. The term
Bristol Indigenous People Support recent years, decreasing soil fertility in africa and elsewhere and communications is a problem for rural people. an ESCT sponsored school in oron, Nigeria, as http://www.indigenouscultures.com/sdn.htm
Extractions: Sustainable Development Network Limited (SDN) is a UK based not-for-profit organisation set up in July 2002 to promote sustainable development at grassroots community level in third world countries. Our programmes address a wide range of sustainable development issues including environmental education, waste management, sustainable agricultural development, sustainable use of natural resources, ethical and socially responsible entrepreneurship. WHAT ARE WE UP TO? The traditional occupation of the people is subsistence farming. Most families are large and poor. The children rarely get basic primary education. History and informal statistics show that young people from the state are sent out by poor parents as house servants to richer families in the cities to earn some money for the family. Most of these children are ill treated in the homes they find themselves, others end up hawking goods on the streets for their masters. On the streets no one keeps an eye on them, teenage pregnancy is very common among the young girls while the young boys end up with bad gangs who introduce them to criminal and armed robbery activities.
WCAR And Indigenous Peoples In The Pacific much later than developing nations in africa and Asia 1970s and 1980s within living memory, people recall the voting and civil rights for indigenous Kanaks in http://www.tebtebba.org/tebtebba_files/ipr/ippacific.html
Extractions: The Pacific Islands are home to a diverse range of indigenous peoples, speaking 19 percent of the world's estimated 5,000 languages. Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Islands are still linked to their communal land, indigenous belief systems, spirituality and custom law, which form the social, economic and political basis for peaceful co-existence. With the settlement of European and Asian immigrants over past centuries, the Pacific Islands population is now estimated at over 8 million people. The United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) defines indigenous peoples as "descendants of the original inhabitants of conquered territories preserving a minority culture and recognising themselves as such." But one distinctive feature of the Pacific Islands region is that indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population in most Pacific Island countries and territories. In largely monolingual and mono-ethnic societies in Micronesia and Polynesia, "indigenous rights" is not the primary focus of the human rights agenda. However, in some countries in the Pacific region, colonial settlement and immigration has reduced the indigenous population to a minority in their own land: the Kanaks of Kanaky / New Caledonia, make up 44% of the population; the Kanaka Maoli of Ka Pae'aina / Hawai'i (18%); the Maori of Aotearoa / New Zealand (15%); the Chamorro of Guahan / Guam (14%); and the Aboriginal and Islander peoples of Australia (2%).
Indigenous Peoples Under The Rule Of Islam and controlled lifestyle of the indigenous people under the Their people battered, weak and heavily tolled, became firmly established in North africa and the http://www.theplanet.net.au/~fpi/IPUTROI.html
Extractions: ISBN: 1-4010-4688-6 (Hardback) ONLINE ORDERS AVAILABLE Amazon.Com Barnes and Noble and Xlibris Online (USA only) or for Xlibris international orders: Orders@Xlibris.com Phone: 1-888-795-4274 Fax: 1-215-923-4685 Publisher's Press Release Book Description from Cover Book Review by Bat Ye'or Table of Contents ... [TOP] Publisher's Press Release An Insiders Look at Iraqi Human Rights Violations New Book Provides First-Hand Account of Persecution in Middle East Philadelphia, PA February 10, 2003 Jihad. Many recognize this term, meaning holy war in Arabic, especially after deadly events during the last few years. Whether openly or secretly promoted by Islamic religious organizations, and with or without the approval of their governments, jihad forwards the cause of Islam through open threats and violence. While the whole world now knows the deadly effects of jihad, non-Islamic peoples living in Islamic countries have suffered its violence for decades.
Guides For Indigenous Peoples In Kenya, africa, for example, the Friends of the offers courses to diplomats and business people on proper for interacting with the many indigenous and ethnic http://www.kivu.com/wbbook/indigguides.html
Extractions: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUMMARY OF THE GUIDELINES FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES This set of guidelines will assist you to understand how to participate successfully and to everyone's benefit in development projects. They are organized in roughly the order you will need to use them when you become involved in a development project. To interact successfully in a development project, someone or some group will need to represent your collective interests. These can be informal or formal, but it is best if they have some legal standing, such as a community corporation or a non-governmental organization. The members should be chosen on the basis of skills required, not just community status. Once a development project comes along, it can provide enormous benefit to the community if managed well. But to make the best of the project, it is important to be a part of it at all the stages. If the project is potentially threatening to your livelihood or well-being, do not avoid it, get even more involved.
Content Browser presence of hundreds of indigenous peoples from around biodiversity related research with indigenous communities. sustainable development in africa See details http://topics.developmentgateway.org/knowledge/rc/BrowseContent.do~source=RCCont
Content Browser The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of 10, HIV/AIDS in africa Suggestions On Conquering The Battle Of A http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ik/rc/BrowseContent.do~source=RCContentUser
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FACE A CONTINUOUS LEGACY OF INTERNAL ( allusion refers to Latin America, Asia and africa in general UN sponsored International NonGovernmental Organizations Conference on indigenous peoples and Land http://www.sifc.edu/Indian Studies/IndigenousThought/fall98/indigeno.htm
Extractions: Caliban (William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, Scene 2) We are well into the "Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995-2004)" proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in its resolution 48/163 in December 1994; yet, in countless ways, these peoples remain in a state of dependency, under oppression or, in many cases, under threat of extermination. The choice of the word peoples as opposed to the singular, people, is deliberate. In spite of the fact that the Indigenous nations of the world are numerous, and exist in every inhabited continent of this planet, the United Nations used the singular: "Decade of the World’s Indigenous People ", lumping these peoples into an amorphous cluster just as many of them became Indians New World. This paper will look at the theoretical perspective of the legacy of continuing colonialism for Indigenous Peoples. Unfortunately the only existing theoretical frameworks used to analyze the conditions of Indigenous Peoples are products of either European or Eurocentric scholarship. These frameworks cannot fully address Aboriginal reality from a
LiP | Feature | An Indigenous View Of North America A Long Night s Journey Into Day Postapartheid africa s rituals of admission of the problems we face today in the world, as indigenous peoples specifically and http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featladuke_68.htm
Extractions: a little bit, set aside your thinking, and try to think about North America from an indigenous perspective. In doing so, what I'd like to ask is that you think about it in terms of islands in a continent. I live on one island, White Earth reservation. It's thirty-six miles by thirty-six miles. It's a rather medium-sized reservation, as they go in North America. That's one island. A little bit west of me is Pine Ridge, a slightly larger reservation.
Extractions: Some organizations that are making an effort to help, are as follows. Maybe the pan-African movement could look at the support and correspondence with these groups. As so far no one has been able to tell me that any Pan_African organisation has made an attempt at communication. Who in the Pan-African movement is actualy internatioanly communicating?
Indigenous Peoples And The Law: Article: Healing The Past In South africa, the indigenous people remained in the majority and it was a government policy of segregation, racism and subjugation, often implemented by http://www.kennett.co.nz/law/indigenous/2000/52.html
Extractions: Healing the Past: A Comparative Analysis of the Waitangi Tribunal and the South African Land Claims System Land is of great social and economic importance in both New Zealand and South African society. The large scale dispossession of the indigenous people in both countries has had drastic consequences for them. The attempts that are being made to address these grievances, and thereby reverse the effects of past injustices, reflect the current political situation in each country. This article is concerned with claims for restitution and the institutions designed to facilitate them - the Waitangi Tribunal and the South African Land Claims Commission and Land Claims Court - and investigates which aspects of such mechanisms are effective and what lessons they have to offer. I POLITICAL CONTEXT In the New Zealand and South African colonies the settlers soon came into conflict with the indigenous people over land. The result was war and land confiscation. Beyond that fact the colonies differ dramatically. While most indigenous grievances in New Zealand date back to those early times, the injustices in South Africa continued to escalate. In New Zealand, the survival of the Maori and particularly of their culture was soon jeopardised by war, disease, amalgamation policies, and loss of land - their means of maintaining a dignified existence as a nation. In South Africa, the indigenous people remained in the majority and it was a government policy of segregation, racism and subjugation, often implemented by legislation, from which the present grievances arise.
About The Anthropology Department What do we say if the indigenous peoples themselves want this development Ethnographic Courses (2) Examples peoples of Europe peoples of africa peoples and http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/anth/anth.html
Extractions: The first interdisciplinary discipline... It synthesizes the disciplines of a liberal arts education and applies them to the real world. Anthropology is not just done in the jungle. As different ethnic groups come together and break apart from Los Angeles to Bosnia anthropologists strive to understand cultural difference and social change. Why do people care about their heritages? Why do they fight for the right to practice their religions? How are cultural traditions invented, maintained, and transformed? These are anthropological questions which demand understanding of the cultural landscapes that, as humans, we create and inhabit. In many ways, it is a great time to study anthropology at Trinity and to be working in the field. The pressures of change all around the globe pose new and challenging questions about how societies will deal with themselves and with other societies. The colonial and post-colonial worlds have opened windows into cultures with values different from our own, values we must interpret in their appropriate contexts in order to coexist with mutual respect and benefit. The implications of everything from interpersonal relationships to geopolitical restructurings demand cross-cultural understanding, and to provide that understanding, Anthropology is moving to a central position among the social sciences. The anthropologist, far from a "raider of the lost ark" a latter-day Indiana Jones seeks answers to questions that are compellingly relevant in the contemporary world. The problems we face as human beings in our perplexing modern times demand a way of thinking that faces complexity head-on. How, for example, are we to evaluate the effects on indigenous peoples when their rain forests are clear-cut in the name of what third-world governments describe as necessary economic development? What do we say if the indigenous peoples themselves want this development to occur? And, how can we be sure that development means the same thing to them as it does to us?
He Applicability Of The Aboriginal Tit That indigenous peoples were not civilised, was a wideheld view of the judiciary and legislature in Southern africa in the 19 th century. http://www.firstpeoples.org/land_rights/southern-africa/whatsnew/westcaprivi.htm
Extractions: Introduction The doctrine of aboriginal title has not received a lot of attention in Namibia. As a matter of fact, the doctrine found its way into the Namibian Courts only in 1997 when the Kxoe community in the western Caprivi region of Namibia challenged the Namibian Government on their land and environmental rights. The case never proceeded any further, probably because of the Namibian Government would have had to defend racist laws and apartheid practices of the South African and German colonial governments - indeed a very uncomfortable defence for a independent Namibia. Aboriginal title presents very important legal consequences for the claimant community, such as claiming compensation for land expropriated without just compensation or simply to reclaim their land. In independent Namibia many minority and indigenous communities are faced again with land dispossession.
Attack The Global Education Crisis & Break The Cycle Of Poverty For example, illiteracy rates of Mexico s indigenous peoples are five times the Mexican The cost of universal primary education in africa an additional $US 3 http://www.aldridgeshs.qld.edu.au/sose/modrespg/populate/educate.htm
Extractions: Home Campaign network Contents/Search Attack the Global Education Crisis and break the cycle of poverty Education is critical to breaking the cycle of poverty. By expanding horizons and increasing opportunities for employment and social development, education is a key to enable poor and marginalised communities to take control of their lives and stand up for their rights. It is a basic human right for everyone. However, now, just eight months from the new millenium, 125 million children around the world never see the inside of a classroom and another 150 million primary school children have left school before they are able to read or write. That's one of four children. Worldwide. The figures speak for themselves. A silent crisis persists. The price of this global crisis in basic education? Today 872 million people worldwide are illiterate, most living in poverty and powerless to take control of their lives - all symptoms of illiteracy. Community Aid Abroad, as a member of Oxfam International, has joined the Oxfam International Campaign - Education Now! - Break the Cycle of Poverty. The campaign will operate over the next two years at local, national and international levels to mobilize the political will and subsequent resources to achieve universal primary education, gender equity in school enrolments and universal adult literacy by 2015. Released by all Oxfams around the world last month as the cornerstone of the campaign, the Oxfam International
New Page 1 phenomenon, for historic and cultural reasons, affects primarily indigenous peoples and those of Intolerance which shall take place this year in South africa. http://www.dialoguebetweennations.com/dbnetwork/english/oscar2.htm
Extractions: Racism is incompatible with democracy. Racism does not recognise the right to be different, the autonomy of individuals or peoples. In fact, it denies equality for all under the law. However, democracy implies that every individual -without discrimination- be granted universally recognised human rights. We acknowledge the existence of racism and racial discrimination throughout the Americas. This phenomenon, for historic and cultural reasons, affects primarily indigenous peoples and those of Afro American descent. We also acknowledge that xenophobia and intolerance towards migrant workers, ethnic and religious minorities and based on sexual preferences, gender, age or disabilities are practices which must be signaled out, sanctioned and eradicated. We are determined to promote the fulfillment of the Action Plan resulting form the Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance which shall take place this year in South Africa. Through affirmative actions, we also support the revision and modification of laws, institutions and mechanisms to promote equality within diversity, multiculturalism and the universal respect of human rights. In order to achieve concrete results towards eradicating racism and all other forms of discrimination, educational and preventive measures must be prioritised. A special emphasis must be placed on the media as well as the mobilisation of civil groups and more efficient cooperation between governments of the Americas.
Africa port, Veracruz received significant numbers of descendants of africa from Haiti census indicates that there were also more than a million indigenous peoples. http://www.blackherbals.com/Mexico1.htm
Extractions: Miriam Jimenez Roman B lack people in Mexico? The looks of amazement and disbelief on the faces of first-time viewers of Tony Gleaton's photographs are eloquent testimony to the significance of these images. Particularly to those who have little or no knowledge about societies beyond the borders of the United States, these photographs are a revelation. They force us to rethink many of our preconceptions not only about our southern neighbor but more generally about issues such as race, ethnicity, culture, and national identity. Not long ago, on a hot and humid July day, I rode with friends to the town of Yanga, in the state of Veracruz on Mexico's gulf coast. In recent years, Yanga has received considerable attention as one of the Americas' earliest "maroon communities": settlements founded by fugitive slaves. Originally known as San Lorenzo de los Negros, in 1932 the town was renamed for its founder, a rebellious Muslim man from what is now Nigeria. In 1609, after resisting recapture for 38 years, Yanga negotiated with the Spaniards to establish a free black community.
New Page 1 IPACC The indigenous peoples of africa Coordinating Committee. This is the site presents of a network of indigenous peoples organizations in africa. http://www.trocaire.edu/library/Indigenous.htm
Extractions: See also Native Americans This year marks the conclusion of the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People. The decade was launched by a proclamation of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Under the theme" Partnership in Action", the intention was to establish ways and means for cooperation between Indigenous peoples and governments, states and other bodies. This area of research is inherently multi-disciplinary and any researcher soon discovers the layers of historical, legal, political, environmental and cultural contexts throughout the information-gathering process. Digitized historical documents, maps, government reports (both historical and contemporary), legal cases and specialized educational curriculum are accessible to researchers. Librarians in this field must perceive library resources in the broadest manner to be most effective to these researchers. Luckily, these efforts are facilitated through the hypertext and visual nature of the Internet. There are numerous quality Internet resources about Indigenous peoples, individual communities, organizations and particular topics. In addition to non-Indigenous resources, strong effort has been made to include Internet resources created and maintained by Indigenous Peoples or nations. Increasingly, these groups have utilized the Internet to communicate and disseminate information about their communities and issues that affect their lives. This column contains a selective list of resources that cover international and regional resources. Indigenous peoples is used inclusively and is intended to respectfully encompass First Nations, Aboriginal, Indian, Inuit and other peoples throughout the world.
Extractions: Reproduced, with permission, from: Roy, B. K., and D. K. Miller. 1985. The rights of indigenous peoples in international law: An annotated bibliography. Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre. Alfredsson, Gudmundur. "International Law, International Organizations and Indigenous Peoples." (1982), 36 Journal of International Affairs The author analyzes the remedies and avenues for redress available in international law and organizations for human rights violations against indigenous peoples. He also examines specific provisions in the Charter of the United Nations relating to the domestic jurisdiction rule and argues that most states could not successfully invoke this rule because, as parties to international agreements, they have consented to the competence of others to discuss state performance in areas covered by the agreements. The author also examines the principle of the right to self-determination and puts forth five possible meanings and potential beneficiaries. He concludes that most indigenous peoples are excluded from the exercise of external self-determination partly because of the territorial and sovereignty arguments advanced by metropolitan states. He asserts, however, that this does not mean that internal self-determination does not apply. American Indian Law Centre. "Special Issue." (1974), 7
