International

Indigenous youth discuss the changes needed by the state as they celebrate Oxlajuj B'ak'tun.

Reports that the Maasai customary land tenure system and most traditional practices are no longer applicable because of present land policies and laws. To access this article, scroll down to page 42.

Discusses how recognition of Indigenous practices and culture in forest governance and traditional livelihood should be considered when establishing community forest management systems.

Discussion about the end of the Oxlajuj B'aq'tun and the start of a new era that should be seen as an opportunity for positive renewal to generate changes in society.

Discusses China's observer status and their refusal to express support for the rights of the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples.

Literature review on the legal principal that facilitates colonization.

Comments on the Australian Prime Minister's February 13th, 2008 apology to the country's indigenous peoples for past wrong doings.

Discusses the consequence of neoliberal globalization and the emergence of Indigenous movements that share many similarities. Access article through table of contents.

Examines the different definitions of Indigeneity used by the different nation-states in the Arctic regions. Finds that Russian definitions exclude large Indigenous groups (Sakha & Komi) and shows that not all Arctic Indigenous groups are included in the Arctic Council.

Latin American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

Discusses challenges faced by Indigenous populations and identifies some of the local, national and international initiatives underway to address these issues. Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté. Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

Examines the use of history in Indigenous land rights in Australia through a commentary of the High Court's construction of Native title rights in a specific case.

Law Thesis (LLM)--University of Toronto, 2010.

Discusses the environmental and economical consequences of global warming, deforestation, and the selling of communal land rights.

Summarizes issues discussed at Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 2009. Organized by IWGIA.

Adaptation through migration and application of traditional knowledge are some options open to Indigenous people to sustain and manage their environment.

Explains that Amnesty International Canada is requesting that police to treat calls about missing Aboriginal women as code red cases.

Analyzes historic origins of violence and examines economic, political and social effects on the living conditions of young people. To access this article, scroll down to page 10.

Gives a historical overview of the last ten years with links to present circumstances of the Indigenous people. To access this article, scroll down to page 36.

Argues that colonialism and state's actions are responsible for Aboriginal women's vulnerability to trafficking.

Examines the legal and political basis of sovereignty and ongoing colonial relations in Australia.

Presents perspective of a Greenlander.

The United Nations' Year of the Indigenous People sparks comments from Gary LaPlante on international, national and local First Nations viewpoints and divisions.

Results of qualitative survey conducted in response to amendments to the Youth Protection Act which gives courts the power to issue permanent placement orders outside of the immediate family.

Looks at the United Nations and other international initiatives designed to protect minorities and discusses how they may appear to be in conflict with other human rights efforts aimed at all individuals.

For materials relevant to Aboriginal women, see points 17-20 (matrimonial real property) and 29-32 (violence and missing or murdered).

Discusses how the government neglected cultural rights by illegally licensing an oil company to do business on traditional lands without community consent.

Indigenous women exchanged experiences on how the lack of consultation on mining, forestry, oil and natural gas extraction and hydroelectric projects have affected their communities.

Book review of: The 'Conquest' of Acadia by by John G. Reid, Maurice Basque, Elizabeth Mancke ... [et al.]

Outlines policy and legal issues that governments must address, in consultation and cooperation with Indigenous peoples, in order to develop a suitable framework and discusses international approaches that exist when dealing with similar circumstances. Appendix discusses terminology.

Includes discussion of context, policy options, history, definition, examples of appropriation and misappropriation, etc.

Committee structure is centred around four themes: country vision, structure of public power, land-territory and natural resources, and development model. To access this article, scroll down to page 50.

Federation of Saskatchewan Indians asked the British Court to provide protection of Treaty and Aboriginal rights before the repatriation of the Canada Act.

Analyzes the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples related to consultation with Indigenous groups and its formations of customary international law. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, 12-15 June 2012, Edmonton, Alberta.

Government's response to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women's recommendation about investigation of cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women.

Comprehensive overview of the Genocide Convention, the first human rights declaration adopted by the United Nations in 1948.

Order from the Appeal Court that John Graham be returned to the United States to face charges relating to the 1975 murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

Contends that the Australian Government has denied that genocide took place.

Interview focuses on issues with respect to mandate and scope of the Commission, and the history of genocide of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Duration: 18:35.

Comments on the inaction of the Canadian government and the international legal obligations that have repeatedly been neglected.

Focuses on over-incarceration and criminalization, new approachs to prostitution, murdered and missing women inquiry, inequalities in education, and sex discrimination in the Indian Act.

Discusses the launch of the adolescent-friendly version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Explores the problematic relationship between traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property law (particularly copyright), which fails to protect them and puts most of them in the public domain, and outlines some proposals for concrete policy, legal and practical solutions to end appropriation.

Several chapters focus on Sami people.