By Bobbie Chew Bigby (Cherokee)
By Bobbie Chew Bigby (Cherokee)
Les Malezer (Gubbi Gubbi and Butchulla) is a retired chairperson of the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) and a longtime advocate for the promotion of human rights of Indigenous Peoples. Malezer worked with the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus to advance the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through the final stages to the UN General Assembly in 2007.
By Laura Simpson Reeves
By Alex Glomset
The UN Committee Against Torture reviewed Australia on November 11, 2014 during which the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population was a larger topic for discussion.
The Australian delegation stated that the government was working towards constitutional recognition of Aborigines people and had allocated 4.8 billion Australian dollars to the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, whose priorities were to get children to school and adults to work.
Reposted from Intercontinental Cry
By Curtis Kline
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.
