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Thursday, 05 September 1991
ILO Convention 169 Comes into Force
On This Day: In 1991 the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 came into force. It is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169. It is the major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only 21 countries have ratified the Convention, while the United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, and many other countries have failed to adopt its binding guidelines.
Indigenous Peoples In Mindanao Seek Separation From OPAPP
Leaders of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao are appealing to President Benigno Aquino III to remove them from the control of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).
Bai Pacita Panis, chairperson of the Tribal Communities Association of the Philippines ...
Statement On Millennium Development Goals, Women, And Indigenous Peoples: "No More Promises, A Call For Action"
This is a statement from the International Indigenous Women's Forum on the MDGs callling on leaders to take specific stepsduring the MDG Review Summit in September to address the vast inequality and social inclusion ...
Amnesty International Demands Argentina Ensure The Right Of Possession Of Ancestral Lands
Translated from Spanish, Original Below
Amnesty International called on the Argentine government to implement Law 26160 and comply with international commitments adopted to guarantee respect for the rights of indigenous peoples.
The Act "of emergency in the possession of ...
Cordillera Peoples Alliance Solidarity Statement To The Indigenous Peoples Of Orissa, India
The Cordillera Peoples Alliance hereby salutes the indigenous peoples of Orissa, India in their resistance against the UK-based mining giant Vedanta and determination to fight for their collective rights to their ancestral lands and self determination. We also ...
First Nations Fear They Will Face Aggression If Forced To Defend Their Lands
First Nations will be forced to defend Tsilhqot’in rights, lands and waters in BC if the federal government fails to do its duty and stop the proposed Prosperity mine. BC’s junior Minister of Mines, Randy Hawes, has ...
Time To Walk The Ipperwash Talk: Madahbee
A decade and a half after the killing of Dudley George by a provincial police officer, Anishinabek Nation leaders say the Ontario government is allowing the Ipperwash Inquiry process to lose momentum.
"The McGuinty government raised a lot of hopes when they made the ...
An Indigenous Religious Ritual Selects For Resistance To A Toxicant In A Livebearing Fish
M. Tobler, Z. W. Culumber, M. Plath, K. O. Winemiller, and G. G. Rosenthal, 2010
Human-induced environmental change can affect the evolutionary trajectory of populations. In Mexico, indigenous Zoque people annually introduce barbasco, a fish toxicant, ...
The Case For Asset-Based Interventions With Indigenous Peoples: Evidence From Hawai‘i
David W. Rothwell, 2010
Two movements are shaping social work in Hawai’i in the era of globalization: (a) the Assets Movement, and (b) the Indigenous Peoples Movement. Data from an asset-based Individual Development Account (IDA) program for indigenous Hawaiians ...
Individual Quality Of Life Among At Risk Indigenous Youth In Australia
Richard D. Chenhall, Kate Senior, David Cole, Teresa Cunningham, and Ciaran O’Boyle, 2010
This paper reports the findings from a pilot study in which the Schedule for Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL-DW) was used to determine how 15 ...
