The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University
Description
Discusses the environmental damage that mining, including exploration, has caused the Takla Lake First Nation. The paper includes an overview of international and domestic Aboriginal rights law; analyzes the problems mining raises for First Nations; and concludes that structural, procedural, and substantive legal reforms are needed.
RightsEd: Human Rights Education Resources for Teachers
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Australian Human Rights Commission
Description
Educator's resource for the report Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Most activities suitable for grade 9 and up.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 45-52
Description
Discusses the history of the American Indian women who initiated legislative changes to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and looks at recommendations to address the problems associated with the lack of compliance to current legislation across Canada and the United States.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 39-56
Description
Author investigates the colonial violence and race laws in El Salvador in the 1930s, and considers them as a form of terror employed by governing institutions for social control.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 81-88
Description
Prose expresses the disappointment Aboriginal people feel in knowing that the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples was not signed.
Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities.
Duration: 1:13:42.
Accompanied by Study Guide
Policy Paper Series (Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service Victoria (FVPLS Victoria)
Description
Looks at key law and justice issues: funding services in rural areas; national women's legal program; and women's law and justice policy development and funding issues.