Universities and the academic community should support indigenous research and the promotion of indigenous traditional knowledge.

Regarding indigenous peoples, community empowerment and the strengthening of their community organizations and leaders was also important.

4. Indigenous community background and links should be regarded as favourable.

Indigenous organizations had in recent years requested the international community to provide effective protection of indigenous intellectual and cultural property.

Indigenous women have access to both indigenous specific and mainstream programmes and services, such as Job Network, the Indigenous Employment Policy and the Community Development Employment Project.

Testing indigenous community driven education approaches against child labour in the Philippines

The initiatives taken by his Government to advance the rights of indigenous people included the establishment of banks for indigenous women a census of indigenous households a programme to strengthen community management scholarships for indigenous students a programme to protect indigenous migrants and a programme to map indigenous lands.

Moreover, each indigenous community has distinct cultural expressions and approaches to its natural environment.

Community level radio stations were targeted in particular, with informative spots produced in indigenous languages.

Teach and transmit traditional community values and associated local and indigenous knowledge in basic education.

Many indigenous participants stated that the forum should be open and accessible to every community.

Indigenous people challenges facing the international community , backgrounder released in English and French in March

The Indigenous Women's Projects provide specialized legal services to indigenous women. Some of the projects funded by the Community Legal Services Programme are located in mainstream community or women's legal centres, while others are stand alone services.

Foster the training of indigenous women in order to gain leadership skills to become community advocates and defenders for indigenous women's rights to achieve gender equity.

Foster the training of indigenous women in order to gain leadership skills to become community advocates and defenders for indigenous women's rights to achieve gender equity.

Some indigenous representatives also said that the criteria in the Martínez Cobo report were adequate to determine whether a person or community was indigenous or not.

How can the indigenous media newspapers, radio and television be developed and strengthened? What is the role and responsibility of the indigenous media as an intermediary between the international community United Nations and indigenous communities?

An especially interesting initiative is the indigenous community consultation process for the integrated management of indigenous territories in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor which generated community based proposals for a Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded integrated environmental protection and community development programme, which is currently in the execution stage.

Despite these obstacles, they have organized themselves into the Community of Indigenous Peoples of Rwanda (CAURWA).

She said that the unique languages of indigenous peoples were a source of unity and community.

(b) Ensure the full participation of indigenous communities in any and all policy development and decision making that relates to any particular indigenous community, land or environment.

46. With regard to nuclear weapons testing as a threat to indigenous peoples, IITC cites Tahiti, Polynesia, in particular, as an indigenous community poisoned by such testing.

In addition, the Government provided general information regarding the Macuxi indigenous community and stated that the land that community occupied in Raposa Serra do Sol had not yet been recognized by the Minister of Justice as of permanent indigenous occupation.

In the cities, indigenous people experience extreme poverty, rampant discrimination and the loss of spiritual, community and family ties, as well as loss of indigenous culture and values.

80 indigenous men sharing their expertise, skills and knowledge, and forming networks to enhance their community work

The 2003 agreement provided AUS 4.75 billion for the provision of public, community, indigenous and crisis housing.

Therefore, it is important that the candidate is proposed and nominated by an indigenous organization or community.

To assist in this process, the Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Unit developed the Indigenous Legislation Database, which is a comparative databank of all legislation on indigenous issues, organized by subject matter, in all countries of Latin America.

Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.

20. At its first meeting the Advisory Group identified the project s goals and the need to set up an indigenous team for the project within the WHO structure and the possible implementation of six pilot projects in the following indigenous communities (i) Anka Hill Tribe, Thailand (ii) Masai community, Kenya (iii) Tonga community, Tonga (iv) Chechua community, Argentina (v) Chukotkan community, Siberia, Russian Federation and (vi) Miskito community, Nicaragua.

Corresponds to the former mining reducción (resettled community) on the Cañamomo and Lomaprieta indigenous resguardo in Caldas department.

As an example, an indigenous expert provided information on a project undertaken within the Subanen community in the south of the Philippines, aimed at documenting ethno botanical indigenous traditional knowledge.

Dialogue with indigenous communities and the assistance of the international community had helped to overcome hindrances that impeded the full participation of indigenous peoples in the affairs of Guyanese society.

(f) Creation of a regional network of indigenous women's organizations and local governments whose aim is to strengthen indigenous community participation in the local government and advocacy through access to information

In Kenya's Masai community indigenous girls occupy a transitional position between their parents' family and that of their husbands.

Support for 84 indigenous women leaders to increase their leadership skills, confidence and level of involvement in community development

The observer for Australia, said that indigenous people in Australia were generally poorer than the rest of the community.

(a) Training for the indigenous community development cadres and vocational training for the disabled, conducted at the village level

During the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, the international community had shown increased interest in indigenous people, and progress had been made regarding international and national legislation on the subject.

132. The representative of Brazil proposed that article 5 should read as follows Every indigenous individual has the right to the citizenship of the State to which he belongs. With regard to article 9, he proposed the following text Indigenous people have the right to belong to an indigenous community, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community concerned.

The Forum should appeal for increased resources to enhance the activities and programmes of relevant international agencies related to indigenous traditional knowledge and for inter agency cooperation on indigenous traditional knowledge, including the development of joint indigenous traditional knowledge projects, especially local or community projects.

As part of Partnerships Against Domestic Violence, AUS 6 million was allocated for the National Indigenous Family Violence Programme to support practical, grass roots projects to strengthen indigenous community efforts to address family violence.

Even without a general universal definition it should be relatively easy to identify the indigenous peoples by using these criteria, which are adequate to determine whether a person or community is indigenous or not.

The project fosters community led approaches, training, capacity building, interaction of landowners and farmers, and sustainable and dryland indigenous management practices.

The Commission stated that incarcerated indigenous women suffer particularly from the disruption to their responsibilities within their family and community life.