Indigenous peoples should be recognized as guardians of their lands.

Most recently there has been a demand from indigenous peoples for the establishment of indigenous universities in indigenous areas, with programmes designed specifically for indigenous peoples.

Aboriginal people

Indigenous group

Indigenous land rights

The Committee notes that the identity document issued to indigenous persons in accordance with the Regulations under the Organization Act on the Identification of Indigenous Persons includes the name of the ethnic group, the people and community to which such persons belong.

Aboriginal people

Indigenous population

Indigenous people

With regard to the element of self identification contained in article 8, indigenous peoples were indigenous peoples whether they identified themselves as such or were identified and or recognized by others.

One said that the forum should be a forum of indigenous peoples, on indigenous peoples, run by indigenous peoples.

3. States shall, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, take effective measures, in order for indigenous individuals, particularly children, including those living outside their communities, to have access, when possible, to an education in their own culture and provided in their own language.

c. Indigenous People

Indigenous peoples

Human rights and indigenous people

HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INDIGENOUS

HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

The aim of the project is to help strengthen Ecuador's alternative indigenous municipalities, which, since the 2000 general elections, have either an indigenous mayor, one who is not indigenous but is backed by some indigenous political movement or one who, whether indigenous or not, adheres to the principles and vision of local and national development which indigenous municipalities advocate and seek to put into practice.

According to the mandate, indigenous people were those who identified themselves and were recognized by others as such, whether or not a formal definition existed.

(b) Principal theme, Utilization of indigenous peoples' lands by non indigenous authorities, groups or individuals for military purposes

(iii) The rights of indigenous people

Indigenous peoples organizations

(e) Indigenous leaders

(a) Organizations of indigenous peoples

Indigenous Peoples Programme

IX. HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

24. Prepare awareness building programmes in indigenous communities to help eliminate discrimination against women within and outside the indigenous population.

The campaign's indigenous component consists of targeted advertising in indigenous press, with the use of indigenous ambassadors , including well known indigenous personalities (writers, actors, sports figures) who appear under the defined slogan Violence against Indigenous Women.

15. The colonization of indigenous territories has affected indigenous peoples in a number of ways.

Substantially higher rates of diagnosis of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis are recorded among indigenous peoples than non indigenous peoples.

(b) another 4,209,080 persons who, although they do not speak an indigenous language, are considered to be indigenous.

Besides, the Congress was to legislate on the lands to be granted and on indigenous participation in decisions concerning natural resources and other interests that might affect them.

It also acknowledges the provisions introduced by the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act regarding indigenous land use agreements, as well as the creation of the Indigenous Land Fund in 1995 to purchase land for indigenous Australians unable to benefit from recognition of native title (art. 5).

A number of indigenous organizations stated that conflicts involving indigenous peoples were most often related to issues of land and resources, to the exercise of the right to self determination, and to the undertaking of projects undertaken by non indigenous entities either closer to or within the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples.

Aboriginal land claims and agreements

Land rights and resources for indigenous peoples

PEOPLES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO LAND

The National Indigenous Development Corporation had also helped establish numerous indigenous associations and had supported various indigenous activities and events.

An indigenous representative from Canada reported that suicide rates among indigenous youth were four to six times higher than among non indigenous people.

INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF THE WORLD S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE VOLUNTARY FUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE OF THE WORLD S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Health of Aboriginal peoples

Technical cooperation in the field of human rights in Afghanistan

(c) Indigenous peoples organizations

Indigenous people and education