Articles related to "Native Title"

The Native Title Report 2007 finds that native title is undermining the exercise and enjoyment of human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Since 1999, the Australian Government has been on CERD's agenda of urgent business, but the government has categorically failed to acknowledge this.

Israel has the most successful and openly supported Native Title claim in the world. They get to be colonists and natives simultaneously!

Australian customary Aboriginal land rights have been reaffirmed in the courts, but the battle continues against extinguishment and watering down of Native Title.

Has the church, since playing an historical part in the loss of Aboriginal language and culture, now become an ally in the struggle for Aboriginal rights?

Eight years on from the 1998 Aboriginal delegation to Britain, and has anything changed? Sure! It's worse!

Participation in the market economy is on the global agenda as a solution for Indigenous community dysfunction. But we should examine the Alaskan experience, and beware..

The Kolla, whose sovereignty has never been broken, whose Native Title is part of Argentina's constitution, still only have provisional Aboriginal Land Rights.

Indigenous people the world over have a tough time reclaiming native lands, even through freehold title. Check out this story from Mongolia's aborigines.

The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda.

Persistant mining and pastoral lobby groups have eroded native title legislation, until Land Rights have become window dressing. But nothing can cover this mess.

The Canadian native title and land rights treaty process is the most complicated on the planet. And the ultimate loophole - only dead cultures are allowed to survive...

There is a rebirth of Indigenous identity in Aotearoa, grounded in native title, enabling a level of native autonomy unprecedented elsewhere in the colonial world.

Governments the world over seek to destroy Indigenous communal ownership by privatising Land Rights and carving up customary lands for individual ownership (and sale).

Guest writer Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News, keeps us up to date with the ongoing battle over native title on the Haldimand Tract.

Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.

The west doesn't hold the monopoly on colonisation of indigenous peoples. Taiwan's aborigines suffer the same ravages of invasion as other first nations around the world.

Has there been any improvement in Australian Aboriginal rights since the UN condemned Australia's racism and descrimination record nearly ten years ago?

"Good Guys" part two. In the complex domain of Aboriginal rights, conservationists often find themselves working for the enemy.

There are considerable barriers to Indonesian indigenous rights. But are these blocks natural, or merely paternalism in disguise?

Catch 22. The Malaysian government has refused to grant land rights to the Sarawak Penan until they agree to settle in sedentary colonies, renouncing a nomadic lifestyle.

In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia.

This collection of information, photographs, letter and document facsimiles and illustrations offers thought-provoking insights into Australia's past and present.

Sri Lankan indigenous people were evicted from their traditional lands in the name of "wilderness conservation".

Chagos Islanders have won the right to return to their native lands, from which they were once expelled by the British to make room for the American military.

Ever heard the word "Tundra"? An aboriginal language word of the Reindeer people of Scandinavia, the Indigenous Sami.

Aboriginal issues are perceived negatively by the wider public because of media portrayals, with talk-back radio hosts the most blatant culprits.

Examining the famous New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori and the British - the language of paternalism can be so amusing.

Leading Australian indigenous lawyer and activist releases his first book, a compelling collection of essays on native title and the ill effects of welfare dependency.

Assyrian Indigenous peoples in the Middle East have had half their population massacred or removed over the last century.

The Isle Of Man has been invaded by at least four different nations, but still retains its own indigenous customary rights.

"Macedonia" is the oldest surviving indigenous European nation by name, originating from 7000 BC. Today, they struggle for autonomy against Greek colonists.

Aborigines and Greens both have a strong environmental focus in activism. But are conservationists in reality serving a colonial agenda when it comes to land rights?

The Nukak people of the Amazon have managed to avoid colonisation for hundreds of years, ironically by conforming to colonial stereotypes.

How long have Aboriginal people lived in Australia And America? Well, that depends on your cultural and political point of view.

The Prusi indigenous people of former Prussia, thought to be extinct since the Crusades, are making a comeback. Young European pagans are reclaiming tribal identities.

Was Australia's first Governor, by empirical definition and his own admission, a terrorist? And how does our current government compare?