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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Indigenous rights"”.
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Indigenous rights under the Australian constitution :a reconciliation perspective
… jurisprudence for the protection of indigenous rights under the Australian Constitution. The thesis first examines what could be meant by the term reconciliation in a legal context and argues that it requires (1) acknowledgement of and atonement for past wrongdoing, (2) the provision …
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THE BOLSONARO EFFECT: STATE VIOLENCE ON INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN BRAZIL
… During the course of his presidency, he reduced Indigenous people’s rights over land by dismantling health and environmental policies. I propose the Bolsonaro effect as an increase in state violence against Indigenous people as the outcome of the following: the furthering of economic ventures …
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Marxist Insurgencies and Indigenous Rights; The Cases of Guatemala and Peru
… between leftist armed guerrillas and indigenous rights in the Latin American region. I argue that the ethnic component and indigenous mobilization have greatly determined the political and social achievements of Marxist insurgencies active in many countries of the sub-continent during …
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Indigenous Rights and the Protection of Biodiversity: A Study of Conflict and Reconciliation in International Law
Indigenous ways of living are typically described as being harmonious with—if not instrumental for—the protection of the environment. This dissertation moves from the quite different evidence that the protection of biodiversity may encroach on indigenous rights. More specifically, the legal regime …
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Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
<p>Focusing on the representation of Indigenous human rights at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this study examines how museums can represent, educate, and advocate for Indigenous human rights. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out at the museum …
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Indigeneity, Constitutional Changes and Urban Policies: Conflicting Realities in La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador
… and policy research which mainly studied indigenous rights in rural areas and focused on urban indigenous peoples as outlawed, excluded, or insurgent subjects. Instead, it conceptualises the translation of indigenous rights into urban policies as a complex process in which a multiplicity …
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Indigenous peoples and the right to culture : an international law analysis
… the question of fair and equitable treatment of indigenous peoples remains a subject of international political and legal discourse. Efforts have been made to study ways of promoting and protecting indigenous rights and to develop international norms for the protection of these rights. These …
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We Put Down Our Guns and Picked Up Microphones: Community Radio as a Conduit for Community Development in Guatemala
… for community knowledge; (2) a platform for indigenous rights; (3) a pillar for community solidarity; (4) an arena for empowerment of all community members, especially youth. Using an asset-based approach to development, I frame radio as a facilitator of collaborative civic engagement …
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Conflicting discourses in Canadian Aboriginal politics : a case study of the First Nations governance initiative
… Aboriginal politics and international debates on Indigenous rights. The approach taken is inspired by postcolonial studies and discourse analysis. The goal is to explain the current "dialogue of the deaf" between the federal government and First Nations leadership in terms of "discursive" …
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Developing a framework for researching ethnicity and multiculturalism in New Zealand
… for New Zealand because it is insensitive to indigenous rights and will remain mutually exclusive from biculturalism. This research then concludes with a discussion on the likely future of cosmopolitanism in New Zealand, both as a theory and how it might possibly work in practice without …
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The legal implications of the WIPO treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on indigenous peoples of Uganda and Kenya
Indigenous Peoples in Uganda and Kenya continue to face the misappropriation of their Traditional Knowledge associated with Genetic Resources, often without their free, prior, and informed consent or fair compensation. Despite the adoption of international instruments and the enactment of domestic …
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Political Representation for Indigenous Peoples in the Andes
… there has been a lack of representation for indigenous peoples in communities, and most importantly in parliament. This is a very common trait in the South American Andes, which houses the largest number of indigenous groups in the continent. This thesis focuses on Ecuador and Bolivia due to …
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Towards a decolonised archaeology : A case study of the national Museum of Namibia
… be responsive to pressing social issues such as indigenous rights. Museums and their collections are established for a variety of purposes. They are particularly meant to serve as recreational facilities, scholarly venues or educational resources, and promote civic pride or nationalistic …
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Unearthing Greenland’s Resource Frontier: Mineral Resource Extraction and Naalakkersuisut’s Bid for Greenlandic Independence
… for scholars interested in resource geographies, indigenous rights and selfdetermination.
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Improving Indigenous Engagement and Consultation for Oil Sands Development in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada
… and makes recommendations to improve Indigenous engagement and consultation (participation) undertaken in conjunction with environmental assessment for nine Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) oil sands developments in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada. It …
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Water is country, country is culture: the translation of Indigenous relationships to water into law
This thesis is about how unique Indigenous conceptions of and relationships to water can be translated into law and subsequently recognised and protected. Water is Country and Country is culture. Water is not only an essential element of all life processes but also of the unique identities of the …
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Energy Crisis and Opportunity: Energy Development and Debate in Saskatchewan, 1969–1982
… in the province, particularly socialist, Indigenous rights, and environmentalist organizers, and how they interpreted the energy crisis as an opportunity to advance visions for the future of the province in line with their values. The study tracks how these social movements engaged in …
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Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches
… distributive justice, procedural justice, indigenous rights, corrective justice, and ecological sustainability. The interview responses suggest that, viewed through five sub-frames of environmental justice (EJ), Alaska Natives do face an environmental injustice. In particular, Alaska …
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Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches
… distributive justice, procedural justice, indigenous rights, corrective justice, and ecological sustainability. The interview responses suggest that, viewed through five sub-frames of environmental justice (EJ), Alaska Natives do face an environmental injustice. In particular, Alaska …
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Rights to land, fragmentation and fairness: the problem of transnational legal governance for indigenous groups
This thesis identifies what legal rights to land exist for persons claiming a special socio-economic, cultural and communal relationship to land. Through empirical case studies and legal examples, it identifies and evaluates land rights and related remedies through the theoretical lens of …
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