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UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli-Corpuz Finds Inadequate Consultation Process in Honduras

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, says she has found an inadequate process of consultation with Indigenous communities on the part of the national government during her visit to Honduras, where she was recently invited for a working visit to comment on a draft of a law regulating Free, Prior and Informed Consent. Indigenous Hondurans do not feel that they were adequately consulted on the content of the law. Further, the law does not meet widely accepted international standards of F.P.I.C.

Indigenize The Prevention Movement Against HIV And AIDS

HIV advocate Marama Mullen (Ngatiawa Māori), Executive Director of INA, the Maori, Indigenous, and South Pacific HIV/AIDS Foundation, discusses the HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness network that her organization has fostered among Indigenous communities in the South Pacific.

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Song: "Atahualpa" by Yarina. Used with permission.
Introduction: "Burn Your Village to the Ground" by A Tribe Called Red. Used with permission.

UN Special Rapporteur Vicky Tauli-Corpuz on the Criminalization of Australian Aboriginal Peoples

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, discusses with IRR Producer Shaldon Ferris the high rate of imprisonment of Australian Aboriginal individuals that she observed in her official visit to Australia. Disproportionate criminalization of Aboriginal people is evidence of systemic, structural inequality in Australia.

 

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Song: "YAWLICHALLAY" by Luis Cisneros. Used with permission.

Ri Kich'ojib'al k'aslemal ri achamaq'i. Tanaj 23.

Guión: Ri kich’ojib’al k’aslemal ri achamaq’i’, jun atowab’äl xjuch’ kuma ri tinamital pa ri juna’ 2007. Re wuj re’ nusöl chi qawäch achike ri k’o chi nikib’än chuqa’ ri man ruk’amon ta nikib’än ri chanpomanela’ chi ruya’ik kiq’ij ri kich’ojib’al ri qawinaq.

Ri  mokaj tzij 23 richin re q’alajrisanem re’ ke re’ nub’ij:

Ri achamaq'i' k'o kich'ojib'al richin nkijikib'a' chuqa' runuk'ik jalajöj rub'eyal kisamaj richin ri kik'iyirisanem.  Achi'el ri achamaq'i' k'o kich'ojib'al richin nkinük' jalajöj taq samaj pa ruwi'

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