Extractions: E-Mail: Frepicawanak@yahoo.com We, the Canarians, are a people of Insular Africa, of which the descendants of the Canarian natives are ethnically Amazigh (Berber). 1. The demand of the Republic of Ukrania in 1960 at the UNO to carry out the decolonisation of the Canary Islands. 2. Article 1 of the Constituent Act of the OAU which states that " ... The Organisation will include the African States, Madagascar and all the islands adjacent to the continent." This clearly supports the African nature of the Archipelago. 3. The report made by the Extraordinary Conference of Afro-Asian Writers in 1966: "We ask all Afro-Asian States to support the right and the movement for the independence of the Canarian Archipelago to end Spanish colonialism in their land and to denounce openly all the manouevres of Spanish colonialism in Africa." 4. The contents of Resolution 1514 of the UNO.
IAIP To Commission On Sustainable Development decided to form an International Alliance of the indigenousTribal peoples of the from them without any consultation and participation by we who are http://iaip.gn.apc.org/IFB/iast-c~1.htm
Extractions: home Communication from the of the International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests to the Commission on Sustainable Development: Rome 10 March 1995 Distinguished members of the Commission of Sustainable Development, In 1992, delegates of the indigenous organisations of the continents of Asia, America and Africa met for the first time in Penang , Malaysia, decided to form an International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests, based on a well-founded concern from observing the accelerated and progressive destruction of the forests in our ancestral territories. The Alliance provides a forum for dialogue and the agreement of policies on the future of our territories, the resources within them and our fundamental rights, issues which is the theme that international organisations and governments are discussing at the moment, with the aim of exploiting and profiting from them without any consultation and participation by we who are their owners. International instruments and agreements, such as the ILO's Convention No 169, Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biodiversity refer vaguely to the need to consult indigenous peoples and allow their direct participation in the development of plans, policies and programmes regarding forests and other natural resources in our territories.
Indigenous Peoples Council On Biocolonialism collective gratitude to the Indigenos peoples of Brazil Inspired by this historical meeting, we celebrate the spiritual unity of the indigenous peoples with the http://www.ipcb.org/resolutions/htmls/karioca.html
GRAIN | BIO-IPR | 14 September 1999 we call on the WTO to become an instrument in promoting our rights instead 41.Alfred Ilenre International Alliance of indigenous and Tribal peoples of the http://www.grain.org/bio-ipr/?id=143
International Workshop On Indigenous Peoples And Development we shall create an international network having the use and development of indigenous people s resources including experience from different peoples and region http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wgtrr/ollan.htm
Extractions: International Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Development Ollantaytambo, Qosqo, Peru 21-26 April 1997 We , the participant of the International Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Development held at Ollantaytambo, Qosqo, Peru, from 21 to 26 April 1997: Considering the importance of cultural diversity and of Indigenous People's values and philosophies for a new paradigm for sustainable development; Considering the importance of Indigenous Peoples knowledge and practices for the maintenance and conservation of biological and cultural diversity for future generations; Considering the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Chapter 26 of Agenda 21 of the Rio Declaration, ILO Convention 169, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Desertification, the Copenhagen Social Summit Declaration, Article 30 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant international agreements and covenants that recognize the crucial role of Indigenous Peoples in Conservation and development; Considering that multilateral development banks, international development agencies, national and international non-governmental development organizations have programs and projects targeting Indigenous Peoples that are not widely known;
Extractions: inet@earthlink.net INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY FROM PARTICIPANTS AT THE 7TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF CAUCA COLOMBIA. STOP THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN CAUCA! RESPECT INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY! INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION OF SOLIDARITY FROM PARTICIPANTS AT THE 7TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF CAUCA COLOMBIA.
Extractions: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you. It is a pleasure and an honour for me to take part in this impressive Congressand to join you in a discussion of these urgent questions. In my own fieldinternational developmentthere is no more pressing issue than the full recognition of indigenous interests, and indigenous knowledge, in the work of sustainable and democratic development. Let me first say a word about the International Development Research Centre. IDRC was created by Parliament back in 1970, with the express purpose of fostering research (in the words of the Act) into the problems of the developing regions of the world. That mandate presents us still with two enduring objectives. The first is to discover and apply solutions to the specific problems of social, political and economic development. The second objective, just as important, is to build the capacity of people in poor countries to explore, understand, and improve their own futures. In the end, successful development research means investing in the capacities of people themselves to decide the terms of their own development.
Future Exchange - Indigenous Health Information Online in fact they re worse off than indigenous people in our near neighbours and indeed in parts of africa. that in terms of, say, infant mortality, we are not http://abc.net.au/future/iho.htm
Extractions: Wired Medicine Neil Thompson talks about Indigenous health information on the Internet First broadcast June 1998 on The Health Report ... 1998 Health statistics give lie to the myth that Aboriginal people are heavy users of the health care system. In fact their usage is roughly in proportion to indigenous people's proportion of the population. But as the President of the AMA states, that means that indigenous people are under-using our health care resources, since their needs are by far the greatest. There's help now though, for those who want further information on Aboriginal health for whatever reason, because Associate Professor Neil Thompson at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and his colleagues, have produced an Internet clearing house for information on indigenous people's health in Australia. Neil Thompson has spent most of his career in this field. He talked with Dr Norman Swan.
Indigenous Unite indigenous peoples, given that we have inhabited serious conflicts between indigenous peoples and park made up of seven indigenous organizations representing http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/04/mm0492_05.html
Extractions: INDIGENOUS AND TRIBAL PEOPLES from tropical forests around the world have united to create a new alliance to confront the destruction of their territories and forests. Representatives from forest-dwelling communities in the Americas, Asia and Africa formed the "International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests" at a conference held in Penang, Malaysia from February 12 to 15, 1992. The conference also adopted a "Charter of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests." The historic new alliance unites for the first time Indians from Amazonia, Central America and the southern cone of South America, "pygmies" from Africa, tribal peoples from India and Thailand, indigenous peoples from the Philippines , "Orang Asli" and Dayak peoples from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, indigenous peoples from Indonesia, as well as Melanesian peoples from New Guinea. The new alliance is needed, say the forest-dwelling peoples, to confront those who are responsible for destroying their forests and undermining their livelihoods and who are already united and organized. A new unity among the peoples of the tropical forests is needed to ensure that their rights are respected in international policymaking regarding the rainforests. The Charter, which sets out the allianceÆs demands, goals and principles, advocates a new approach to development and conservation in the tropical forests based on securing the rights of the forestsÆ original inhabitants.
4-Patents: Indigenous Peoples' Statement On TRIPs we call on the WTO to become an instrument in promoting our rights instead of Alfred Ilenre, International Alliance of indigenous and Tribal peoples of the http://www.gene.ch/genet/1999/Sep/msg00058.html
Extractions: GENET archive [Index] [Thread] mailinglist genet-news - GENET-news - TITLE: Indigenous peoples¹statement on TRIPs SOURCE: Tebtebba Foundation, Philippines, tebtebba@skyinet.net DATE: September 13, 1999 - archive: http://www.gene.ch/ Prev by Date: Next by Date: 7-Business: UK Science Minister's private lab got 1 million government money Index(es): Main Thread Genetech pages
Extractions: The Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) and the Chief George Manuel Library are pleased to support and contribute to the development and maintenance of the World Wide Web Virtual Library The Indigenous Studies Virtual Library provides links to: General Indigenous Studies Resources If you wish to register a resource with the Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library, please use our Site Submission Form . For other inquiries, please e-mail the Chief George Manuel Library Librarian This site is maintained in conjunction with the Australian National University's Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library Circumpolar WWW Virtual Library containing links to Circumpolar Indigenous resources.
Extractions: Site Index: Home News ENN Earthnews Affiliates News In-Depth Topics Interact Online Quizzes Postcards Marketplace Business Center Store Advanced Search Advertise Join ENN e-mail Subscription Take our Survey Affiliate Tech Center Post Press Release Help About ENN Site Map Indigenous people demand rights protection at U.N.-backed conference Indigenous groups urged governments at the conference to enforce policies that give communities the right to reject development projects, Fortier said. They also want the right to fight involuntary resettlement and reject any unilateral creation of protected areas or commercial exploitation of their natural resources, Fortier said. He was speaking at the nearly two-week Seventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which started Monday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More than 2,000 government delegates, scientists, and environmentalists at the conference will discuss a plan to help indigenous people share wealth created by their resources.
Extractions: LUCIO GUARACHI was born in a village on Bolivia's windswept Altiplano, some 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) above sea level. Of Andean Indian descent, he speaks Aymara as well as Spanish. Since he was ten, he has lived mainly in El Alto, an ever-expanding satellite city of 700,000 people whose self-built houses of bare brick or mud and corrugated iron straggle out into the Altiplano above Bolivia's capital, La Paz. He works, when there is work, in a small workshop making water pumps. Last October, he helped to overthrow an elected president. El Alto was the scene of battles between the army and well-organised protestors that ended with at least 59 dead and the resignation of President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a pro-American mining magnate. The ostensible motive for the protests was a scheme by multinational companies to export liquefied natural gas from Bolivia to California via Chile. But was there another factor at work? Most of the protesters were of indigenous descent. The trigger for their action lay in an obscure incident in Pucarani, a small town near Lake Titicaca. Indian followers of Felipe Quispe, a militant peasant leader, had captured two cattle rustlers; invoking indigenous traditions of justice, they beat and killed them. When police arrested his lieutenant for the crime, Mr Quispe organised roadblocks. After protestors and police were killed, matters escalated.
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs And Trade: Media Releases & Speeches Europe or the Americas, the rights of indigenous people must match the rights of other people. we are proud of our strong and vibrant Mäori population. http://www.mfat.govt.nz/speech/minspeeches/8apr04a.html
Extractions: United Nations Commission On Human Rights th Session Item 15: Indigenous Issues Statement By The New Zealand Representative Tim Caughley Mr Chairman The Commission on Human Rights has considered a separate item on indigenous issues for many years. The importance of protecting the basic human rights of the worlds 300 million indigenous peoples has been repeatedly restated. Yet indigenous peoples continue to be discriminated against or, worse, to have their fundamental rights as human beings grossly abused. The majority of indigenous people seek no special rights: just equal rights and adherence by States to agreed international standards. Whether they are in Asia or Africa, Europe or the Americas, the rights of indigenous people must match the rights of other people. In New Zealand, Mäori as individuals enjoy the same rights, freedoms and protections as all other citizens.
Extractions: Speaking during a press briefing at the CIVICUS conference at Boipuso Hall yesterday Robinson said Botswana government is misguided in refusing to consider Basarwa as indigenous to Botswana. She said the term is appropriate because Basarwa face unique problems and special, difficult circumstances as a group. She said various provisions of the UN treaties and conventions which Botswana has duly ratified and signed acknowledge the indigenous status of Basarwa communities in Botswana which puts the country under obligation to honour their status as such. It is important for government to recognise their special status and characteristics not shared by the dominant groups in society and empower them commensurately with their unique problems which many other indigenous people face. This is in contrast to Mogaes earlier statement that government position on Basarwa is longstanding and non-negotiable and that Botswana will continue to reject the old colonial apartheid myth that insists that some black communities are more indigenous than others. This further contradicts the UN position on indigenous peoples which defines the group as those living on and off their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are descendents of those who inhabited a country or geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means.
