International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
Saami Parliamentary Co-Operation: An Analysis
1st Edition
By John Henriksen
January 01, 1999
The goal of this book is to create a basis for initial concrete evaluations of the question of establishing a joint political body for the Saami Parliaments elected by the Saami people in the three Nordic countries. The first part of the report consists of general background material. These ...
Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation in Latin America
1st Edition
By Allejandro Parellada, Andrew Gray, Hellen Newing
January 01, 1998
In 1996 the UK-based Forest Peoples' Programme (FPP) and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Denmark decided to join forces with indigenous organisations and pool their experiences, in order to analyse different priorities of conservation and indigenous rights movements ...
Liberation through Land Rights in the Peruvian Amazon
1st Edition
By Pedro Garcia Hierro, Soren Hvalkof, Andrew Gray
January 01, 1998
Ucayalai is on of the provinces of the Peruvian Amazon whose economy is based on the extraction of natural resources. Indigenous peoples, in Ucayali as in other parts of the world, consider the demarcation and titling of their territories to be one of their principle demands. In the case of Ucayali...
Enslaved Peoples in the 1990s: Indigenous Peoples, Debt Bondage and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Anti-slavery International
December 01, 1997
The book describes and reveals how indigenous peoples suffer from slavery often in the shape of debt bondage and prostitution. The cases discussed cover indigenous peoples in India, Nepal, Taiwan/China, the Philippines and Indonesia in Asia. In South America cases from Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay ...
Honour Bound: Onion Lake and the Spirit of Treaty Six: The International Validity of Treaties with Indigenous Peoples
1st Edition
By Florencia Roulet
January 01, 1997
When the United Nations approved the Study on Treaties, Agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and Indigenous Peoples in May, 1989, Treaty Six Chiefs invited Special Rapporteur Miguel Alfonso-Martinez to attend an Elders and Treaty Six Chiefs' meeting. The Chiefs wanted ...
Indigenous Heritage and Self-determination
1st Edition
By Tony Simpson
January 01, 1997
The book aims to critically analyze the possible legal mechanisms and processes, which could be used by indigenous peoples in the protection and management of their cultural and intellectual property. The book studies the historic and legal context in which the debate on the rights of indigenous ...
Anxious North: Indigenous Peoples of Soviet and Post Soviet Russia
1st Edition
By Alexander Pika, Jens Dahl, Inge Larsen
January 01, 1996
Jens Dahl is a Danish anthropologist and former director and Board member of IWGIA who has followed the organization's development for the last 40 years. This book contains a compilation of texts about the Small Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North and Far East. The Selected documents, letters ...
Bushmen and the Politics of the Environment in Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Robert Hitchcock
January 01, 1996
The data and conclusions presented in this volume were drawn from a series of research and consultancy projects carried out in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe....
Indigenous Peoples, Forest, and Biodiversity
1st Edition
By International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal
January 01, 1996
Indigenous Peoples, Forest, and Biodiversity. International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest, and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. This volume brings together the main statements and interventions made by the International Alliance of Indigenous-Tribal ...
Vines That Won't Bind: Indigenous Peoples in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Erni
January 01, 1996
This book is a compilation of proceedings from a Conference on Indigenous Peoples in South and Southeast Asia. Contents feature chapters on: The Concept of Indigenous Peoples in Asia; Juridical Rights and the Relation with the State and the Non-Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Movements and Forms...
Indigenous Peoples, Environment and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Erni
January 01, 1995
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich....
The Explosion of Communities in Chiapas
1st Edition
Edited
By June Nash, George Collier
January 01, 1995
Concerning the transformations within Chiapas Mayan communities that make processes of change visible, the focus of this book is the period from 1974 when the first hemispheric congress of indigenous people took place in San Cristobal de las Casas, to the Zapatista uprising and the turbulent ...