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The Sixties Scoop & Aboriginal Child Welfare

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Erin Hanson
Looks at the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families and its effects and discusses the shifts in child welfare policy, and amendment to adoption laws.
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Social Determinants and Indigenous Health: The International Experience and Its Policy Implications: Report on Specially Prepared Documents, Presentations and Discussion at the International Symposium on the Social Determinants of Indigenous Health Adelaide, 29-30 April 2007 for the Commission on Social Determinants of Heath (CSDH)

E-Books
Author/Creator
Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Highlights papers presented at the symposium on global Indigenous health concerns.
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Social Determinants of Health for Native Hawaiian Children and Adolescents

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David M.K.I. Liu
Christian K. Alameda
Hawai'i Medical Journal, vol. 70, no. 11, Suppl. 2, November 2011, pp. 9-14
Discusses challenges faced for prenatal and infant care, obesity, mental health, smoking, infectious disease, suicide, self-perception, racism and colonialism and looks at resilience factors.
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Social Justice, Access and Quality of Healthcare in an Age of Austerity: Users' Perspective from Rural Iceland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sonja S. Gustafsdottir
Kristjana Fenger
Sigridur Halldorsdottir
Thoroddur Bjarnason
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1347476
Looks at access, variety, quality and equity in health care after the consolidation of healthcare services in Fjallabygoo.
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Social Justice Report, 2008

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Australian Human Rights Commission
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
Discusses recommendations on issues of human rights protections, healing, remote education, and health equality.
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Society Needs to Recognize Worth of Aboriginal Women

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anonymous
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 10, January 2008, p. 5

Discusses how advocates for Aboriginal women stress that society and the justice system need to treat Aboriginal women with the same respect as non-Aboriginal women.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.5.

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Still Colonizing After All These Years

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Eberts
University of New Brunswick Law Journal, vol. 64, 2013, pp. [123]-159
Discusses accepting the provisions of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in an effort for Canada to renounce its colonizing ways.
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Still Waiting for Justice

Alternate Title
Work For All: Films Against Racism in the Workplace
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Nadine Valcin
Story of racism in the workplace and one man's struggle for justice against his employer. Duration: 15:20.
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Stolen Generation Narratives in Local and Global Contexts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kay Schaffer
Antipodes, vol. 16, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 5-10
Discusses how Aboriginal life narratives, on the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, has impacted Indigenous-settler relations.
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Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amnesty International
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 26, no. 3-4, Indigenous Women in Canada: the Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter/Spring, 2008, pp. 105-121
Examines nine case studies involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and the factors which have contributed to the high risk of violence.
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[Stolen Sisters: Indigenous Women and Violence in Canada]

Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Beverly Jacobs
Speaker discusses Amnesty International report, Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada and her part as an independent researcher contributing to it. Duration: 1:08:26.
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Strategic Focus and Priorities 2013-2016

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Tebtebba, vol. 14, 2013, pp. 22-23
Outlines the organizational objectives for a three year time frame. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 22.
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Strengthening Law and Justice Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Victims/Survivors of Family Violence and Sexual Assault and Women and Children: National Policy Issues - A Victorian Perspective

Alternate Title
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)
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.
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