GE Directory : RESISTANCE out training workshops on indigenous farming systems and GMOs as well as biopiracy and organizing peoples\ tribunals Publications top of page South africa. http://www.groundup.org/directory/adir.php?cont=nonEur
Africa Travel Centre : Kenya Culture History Although there are over 70 ethnic groups in Kenya, the Masai are the most visible of indigenous peoples in East africa. http://www.africatvl.com/countries/kenya.html
Extractions: Kenya Kenya is often described as having everything that is beautiful in Africa within her borders. Abundant wildlife and birdlife living free; outstanding scenic beauty of the rolling savannas, the peace of the desert regions of the north, the majestic highlands and glaciated peaks of Mt Kenya; the grandeur of the Great Rift Valley and the allure of white coral beaches. Kenya overwhelms all who visit her. Time spent in this country can be one of the most rewarding travel experiences of one's life. Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has experienced considerable growth and prosperity relative to other developing African nations. By focusing on tourism, Kenya has been able to successfully market its national parks and beautiful coast in a way that allows visitors to experience this region of East Africa while contributing to the country's growth. Kenya offers an array of opportunities for travel, wildlife viewing, and cultural experiences. With an immense network of national parks that include a variety of terrain, Kenya arguably stands as one of the top destinations in Africa. Although Kenya lies on the equator, it boasts a variety of landscapes including a tropical coast, grassy plains, desert, and mountains. A fine example of Kenya's wildlife can be found right outside it's largest city in Nairobi National Park. In the South lies the Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya's most reputable reserve and Amboseli National Park, which sits at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Aberdare National Park and Samburu and Shaba National Reserve are situated in the central region, also the home of Mt. Kenya 17,058 ft, Africa's second highest mountain. The Laikipia region is home to many large ranches on a high plateau between desert and mountain in the northwest. Tsavo East and West National Parks are less frequented by visitors and lies between Nairobi and the coast. Other highlights include the Rift Valley Lakes, Meru National Park, and the Indian Ocean Coast.
CallForPapers2002 and living rights as well, from the plight of indigenous peoples to the these crucial questions affecting the future of citizenship in South africa, the rest http://generalupdate.rau.ac.za/sasa/CallForPapers2002.htm
Extractions: Department of Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University, P.O. Box 524, AUCKLAND PARK, 2006, South Africa, Tel.: 27 11 489 3346, Fax: 27 11 489 2879, E-mail: sasa@lw.rau.ac.za Introducing SASA Aims and objectives History SASA's Constitution Sign up! SASA 2003 Council Join the SASA mailing list SASA's 2003 congress SASA publications Society in Transition journal The SASA newsletter online Standards Generating Body (SGB) for Sociology Application Congress Organisational Protocol Global Development Network Award Useful links Employment opportunities Past congresses (2001-) Back to homepage Call for Papers: 2002 Annual Congress East London 30 June - 3 July 2002 'Citizenship, Living rights and the Public Intellectual The transition to democracy in South Africa has raised a host of questions about the nature and meaning of citizenship. While there has been a dramatic political change towards democracy based on universal franchise, the economic structure, and especially its ownership and property relations, have remained virtually intact. The crises of ambiguous citizenship and living rights manifest themselves in diverse forms in the rest of Africa.
Extractions: back to home Business and Human Rights: a resource website See also other materials on "General business & human rights" NEW (recent additions to this section; top item is most recent addition) Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship -...Mandatory legislation on various aspects of business transparency is emerging around the world. It can form part of company law, environmental regulation, or tailored legislation for institutional investors or on social and environmental reporting. Pressure for enhanced public sector accountability has also given rise to calls for company reporting on revenues paid to host government by companies in the extractive industries...A new wave of legal actions mostly in US courts, but also in some EU countries is testing the boundaries of existing legal principles in relation to some of the most difficult issues of the CSR agenda. For example, a series of cases in the US, France and Belgium are testing how fundamental principles of international law particularly human rights law apply to parent companies of multinational corporate groups. (Halina Ward, International Institute for Environment and Development, Feb. 2003) Major reports: Legal Issues in Corporate Citizenship -...Mandatory legislation on various aspects of business transparency is emerging around the world. It can form part of company law, environmental regulation, or tailored legislation for institutional investors or on social and environmental reporting. Pressure for enhanced public sector accountability has also given rise to calls for company reporting on revenues paid to host government by companies in the extractive industries...A new wave of legal actions mostly in US courts, but also in some EU countries is testing the boundaries of existing legal principles in relation to some of the most difficult issues of the CSR agenda. For example, a series of cases in the US, France and Belgium are testing how fundamental principles of international law particularly human rights law apply to parent companies of multinational corporate groups.
The Tribes And Cultures Of Tanzania extensive Bantu South East africa s main ethnic generally comfortable mix of peoples, cultures and indigenous Tanzanian s have been relatively successful in http://www.naturalhighsafaris.com/tanzania/cultural/
Extractions: about us contact us Tanzania is home to over 120 different tribal groups. Though most stem from the extensive Bantu - South East Africa's main ethnic and linguistic group - on Zanzibar and Pemba , the strong historical Arab influence is very much visible in the faces around you. Asians and Europeans make up Tanzania's smaller minority ethnic groups - all creating an exciting and generally comfortable mix of peoples, cultures and traditions. Indigenous Tanzanian's have been relatively successful in preserving their cultural heritage, arguably despite the insistence of independent Tanzania's founding father, Julius Nyerere, on the widespread teaching of Kiswahili - Tanzania's official language Today there are still tribes who live as they always have - including the aboriginal Wa-Tindiga who occupy age-old underground shelters and who live off roots and whatever they can hunt. Click languages are still also spoken amongst the Kangeju and Ndorobo tribes. The Maasai , who for Westerners have long-symbolised all the romance and nobility of 'native Africa,' have also stubbornly retained many of their traditional practices and ways of life.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK LIMITED the Immaculate Nursery and Primary School) in oron, Nigeria, as Organisations located or working in support of africa. BRISTOL indigenous PEOPLE SUPPORT (BIPS). http://www.sdnetwork.kabissa.org/partners.htm
Extractions: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK LIMITED Home About Us Projects Network Partners ... Contact Us Networking for Sustainable Development Our Local Network partners Our International Network partners Other acknowledgements OUR LOCAL NETWORK PARTNERS: Akwamfon Sustainable Community Association (ASCA) Akwamfon is a membership based organisation recently formed and registered in Akwa Ibom state of Nigeria with the help of Sustainable Development Network Limited (SDN), its founding member. ASCA is working closely (as a local partner) with SDN to promote sustainable development among communities in Akwa Ibom and elsewhere in Nigeria through sustainable education, knowledge and information sharing, poverty reduction and other sustainable development projects. Emineima Women NGO (Essien Udim Group) Emineima Women NGO is another local group that Sustainable Development Network (SDN) has helped formed and registered with Akwa Ibom State Government of Nigeria. The group aims to work with SDN to reach out to women in Essien Udim Local Government Area through sustainable Agriculture and other projects. Emineimas pilot project is a lemon grass and other farming project using the land allocated to the group by the Essien Udim Local Government.
Extractions: Activity One: What do we know about Southern Africa? (Engage) The concept of region is very important in geography. Region (along with location place human-environmental relations movement , and human systems All of the characteristics listed in the last paragraph are subject to change. For example, changes in the environment may result in a significant change in the climate or vegetation of a region, resulting in a significant change in the physical character of the region. Similarly, migration of new peoples into a region may result is a significant change in the social and cultural composition of the region. Regions in Africa
Paper 5: Indigenous Peoples The opening preamble highlights this, stating The indigenous peoples of the Americas, Asia, africa, Australia, Europe, and the pacific, united in one voice at http://www.pixibain.co.za/Anthro/Papers/paper5.htm
Extractions: Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION The notion of indigenous peoples is not new. Historical ethnography and travelogues based much of their early success on reports of bloodthirsty 'natives', savage 'beasts' and cannibalistic 'primitives' with strange customs. Essentially, the notion of the 'other' was being explored and developed, often with inaccurate interpretation.
Non-Western And Latin American Cultures NonWestern includes Asia, africa, Middle East, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and indigenous peoples of the Americas and Pacific. Course List. http://www.tulane.edu/~currcomm/text/non-westernMain.html
Extractions: Site Phone Book Calendar Web Help Index Webmail CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION OF A COURSE IN NON-WESTERN AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURES IN THE CURRICULUM General Principles: The geographical distinctions are as defined by faculties in 1982.* Courses proposed for the "Non-Western/Latin American Cultures" category should present subjects that lead to an understanding and appreciation of Non-Western or Latin American Cultures. No course can be included in both Western and Non-Western categories. 1. Courses proposed for the "Non-Western/Latin American Cultures" category may focus on one historical period or on one nation or national culture, but should present a broad perspective on the ideas and values of that culture. A course qualifies for inclusion in this category if its central subject matter provides a framework for understanding and appreciating ideas and values of cultures different from those that we commonly identify as "Western." *"Non-Western" includes Asia, Africa, Middle East, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and indigenous peoples of the Americas and Pacific.
Department Of Anthropology Catalog 2001-2003 Prerequisite Anthro 102 or consent of instructor. The indigenous peoples and East and North africa. Units (3). ANTH 347 peoples of the Pacific. http://anthro.fullerton.edu/catalog.htm
Extractions: ANTH 101 Introduction to Biological Anthropology Description: Humans as biological organisms and in evolutionary perspective. Concepts, methods, findings and issues in the study of the Order primates, including the relationships between fossil monkeys, apes and humans, and the significance of genetic diversity between modern populations. (CAN ANTH 2) Units: ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Description: The nature of culture and its significance. Uniformities and variations in human cultures. Cultural analyses of major institutional forms such as the family, economy, government, religion and art with an emphasis on preliterate peoples. Central problems of cultural comparison and interpretation. (CAN ANTH 4) Units:
Improving Internal Transparency Participation In The WTO and Trade Policy, the africa Trade Network, the International Gender and Trade Network, and the Tebtebba International Centre for indigenous peoples Rights. http://www.southcentre.org/info/southbulletin/bulletin63/bulletin63-04.htm
Extractions: In a recently published joint Memorandum, several non-governmental organisations and civil society groups highlighted the serious problems of the lack of internal transparency and the lack of participation of developing countries in decision-making processes in the World Trade Organisation. Among the organisations that put their signatures were the lack of proper rules of procedures and the lack of transparency and as well as the lack of participation or exclusion of a majority of Members in decision making processes. Although these shortcomings have been pointed out and highlighted by WTO Members, NGOs and the media, and even admitted by previous high officials such as a former Director General and former Trade Ministers, and although reforms have been talked about and promised many times through the years, the situation has not improved. It has in fact worsened. Imbalances in Rules and Substance are Linked to Undemocratic Processes The rules of WTO have a tremendous impact on the lives of people all over the world. This is why it is so crucial that the correct decisions are made in the WTO. We now believe that original imbalances in the WTO rules, the failure so far of attempts to reform them, the many missed deadlines after Doha on issues of importance to developing countries, the unsatisfactory content and progress of current negotiations on services, agriculture and industrial products, are in large part linked to the non-transparent and undemocratic decision-making processes in the WTO.
EXTREME POVERTY AND UNITED NATIONS passing by the slave trade and genocide committed against the indigenous peoples of the As an example, the reports on subSaharan africa by UNCTAD prove that http://www.cetim.ch/2000/00IC--S4.htm
Extractions: We are witnessing this Commission on Human Rights a shift in semantics that may prove to become very harmful. For example, there is more and more talk of "extreme poverty" and less and less about "poverty", or of "debt of the most indebted countries", or of countries having "suffered a major natural catastrophe". The issue of "Third World debt" as such is treated as an intangible element on the world scene. Certainly the eradication of "extreme poverty" on our planet is highly praiseworthy, just as is the immediate cancellation of the Mozambique's foreign debt which can only be applauded. But these are emergency measures which should not even have to be discussed. To stop there, to make these acts the objective of concrete and practical steps risks distancing ourselves from dealing with the roots of the problems posed, and from strategies to achieve our fundamental objective: the realization of human rights.
Joshua Project - Peoples By Country Profiles Alternate People Names oron. People Code (ROP3) 102868. People Name General Ebughu. Language. Primary Language Ebughu. indigenous Fellowship of 100+ http://www.joshuaproject.net/peopctry.php?rop3=102868&rog3=NI
International Day Of Action Against Racism - IDAAR 2001 The European invasions of africa and the Western Hemisphere; the genocidal wars waged against african, Asian and indigenous peoples; the theft, colonization http://www.wasadugu.org/rd.php3?id=700824
Cultural Survival would be a strategic error with grave implications to exclude from the outset the debate on the issues important to the indigenous peoples in africa, Asia and http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/csq_article.cfm?id=00000105-000
2000 Census If a person does not wish to recognize their indigenous ancestry or origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North africa ). http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/faculty/forbes/personal/2000_Census.html
Extractions: Native Intelligence: a column by Jack D. Forbes Native American Studies University of California, Davis All persons who are descended from the original inhabitants of North, Central and South America are now required to mark the "American Indian" question on the United States Census for 2000 or on any other government forms designed to communicate with the Federal government, if they maintain affiliation or "community attachment" to their indigenous nationality or identity. The 2000 census will have a section on "Race"which will allow persons to check off "American Indian or Alaska Native" if they are " a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment ." This is the new definition of "American Indian and Alaska Native" recently adopted by the Office of Management and Budget. This means that all persons whose ancestry goes back to the Americans who were living in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans now has a chance to respond. Still further, they will be asked to give the name of their principal native community or tribe, such as Maya, Garifuna, Mixtec, Yaqui, Aztec, Cree, or Apache. Or they can name a more specific community such as Kanjobal, Yucatec, Chiricahua Apache, Tohono O'odham, Quiche, and so on. Or they can even name a specific pueblo or reservation, such as Acoma, Hotevila, Pine Ridge or Tepoztlan. This is new. Previously, indigenous heritage from south of the US-Mexican boundary was ignored. That led to our schools failing to teach about the heritages of the Toltecs, Olmecs, Purepechas, Mapuche-Araucanians, Tainos, other Arawaks, Caribs, and many other great American peoples. And many schools also overlooked the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas and all of the Andean peoples who lived before the Incas. And, of course, many social service agencies ignored the existence of indigenous peoples from south of the border and Canada, failing to hire translators or offering other needed services.
The Pelandaba Centre For Indigenous Healing Project The practice of indigenous healing as a medical and psychological sensitive and the religious worlds of the Bantu speaking peoples of subSaharan africa. http://www.up.ac.za/cindek/maputa11.html
Extractions: Tembe Elephant Reserve To establish Centres for Indigenous Healing in the areas of the 14 Traditional Authorities of the Ingwavuma and Ubombo Districts of Maputaland in north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal from where indigenous healers are able to practice and serve the wider communal rural communities of Maputaland and Zululand as well as the wider community of KwaZulu-Natal, and from where indigenous healers can functioning as an integral part of the primary health care system of the different levels of governance in South Africa which they are and should be. The bigger project is thus focussed on unlocking the Indigenous Knowledge imbedded in the practice of indigenous healing and on the interaction of two medical systems, the Western and the African indigenous for the bigger advantage to the people of Maputaland, and eventually South and Southern Africa. The establishment of such Centres is a locally development initiative of the Ingwavuma Indigenous Healers Association which has been the foundation for the conceptualisation of the bigger project and business plan. The establishment of such Centres is focussed on the establishing Centres from where the indigenous healers of the two districts will be able to act as an entity, and in an own identity, within the primary health care structures of the Local, Provincial and the National government areas of Maputaland, Zululand, and of KwaZulu-Natal.
African NGOs Battle Over NEPAD As Forum Unfolds - Global Policy in a US magazine) in a potential war against Iraq and africa needs just Minority and indigenous peoples rights, and the african Commission not inclusive. http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/socecon/initiative/2002/1016nepad.htm
Extractions: October 16, 2002 There has been an intellectual row over the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) by African NGOs participating at the NGO Forum preceding the 32nd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights at the Kairaba Beach Hotel. NGOs from all over the continent participating at the forum have strongly expressed mixed feelings over the way the new African development initiative was being driven by African heads of states. Many believed that the initiative had not involved the participation of ordinary Africans. The initiative which John Kakonge, the UNDP Resident Representative to The Gambia said was anchored by the determination of Africans to extricate themselves and the continent from the malaise of under development and exclusion in a globalising world, has got many challenges to face. Kakonge said: "It needs a sophisticated and comprehensive system of coordination which should be regionally realistic and well-costed." He expressed optimism about Nepad, saying: "The new partnership seeks to build on the achievements of the past as well as reflect on the lessons learned through painful experience so as to establish a partnership that is both credible and capable of implementation." However some African NGOs at the forum argued, "it's been donor-driven and not home grown and which is not participatory." A participant from Nigeria wondered if the initiative would not only cost Africa more debts as only "6 billion dollars was donated to us by westerners and we need between 50 and 60 billion dollars to implement the initiative. Doesn't that mean we have to still go borrowing?" he asked.
"Jungle Book" By Joshua Hammer compelling story of his parents own largely unrequited romance with africa. of empire builder, one who believed in teaching indigenous peoples under colonial http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0310.hammer.html
Extractions: Respond to this Article October 2003 The foreign correspondent as thrill-seeker. By Joshua Hammer The battered Somali capital of Mogadishu was a playground for a certain type of foreign correspondent in the early 1990s. In the aftermath of the civil war that drove out the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre, a corps of young adventurers arrived on the scene to document the country's anarchy while inhaling its post-apocalyptic ambience. Hurtling along the sunswept coast in a battered Toyota filled with AK-47-toting bodyguards, with the turquoise Indian Ocean on one side and a sweep of bullet-scarred Arab villas on the other, one could feel like a star in one's own movie. As Aidan Hartley relates in The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands , his dazzling new account of those years, Somalia's horror was inextricable from its allure. When American soldiers first arrived on the shores of the Somali capital in December 1992 to feed the starving, Hartley writes, they quickly found their way to the beautiful white-sand beaches along the Indian Ocean. Nobody had told them that the warm waters off Mogadishu had long been a dumping ground for offaland a breeding ground for sharks. The beach parties continued for several weeksuntil the attacks began. A young Frenchwoman bathing just off shore was torn in half before horrified onlookers, and a Russian wading in the surf was dragged to his death. The Marines erected a skull and crossbones "No Swimming" sign; Club Med Mogadishu quickly fizzled out.
Guide To The Internet searchable database allows you to locate primary source repositories in africa. and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the http://library.stthom.edu/library/Individual_Pages/International_Studies.htm
Extractions: A clearinghouse for African primary source material, the searchable database allows you to locate primary source repositories in Africa. The information available for each repository varies, but may include, in addition to contact information, access and holdings information, full-text articles, brochures, or photographs. Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Borderlands: an encyclopedia of US-Mexico border issues from UT El Paso http://www.utep.edu/border/
