(iii) The rights of indigenous people

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Yuri Melini is known inside and outside Guatemala as a human rights and indigenous rights defender.

One expert raised the issue of applying IPR concepts to indigenous knowledge.

Recognizing that organizations of indigenous people have special knowledge and understanding of the current situation of the world's indigenous people and their human rights needs,

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Their mission is to protect the rights of indigenous peoples without states imposing their ideas of development .

The Indigenous Women's Development Programme forms an integral part of the Australian Government's reform agenda in indigenous affairs.

9. Decides that the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations should also be used to assist representatives of indigenous communities and organizations in attending, as observers, the sessions of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Based on the ethnic group, there has been a reduction of 55 per cent in the non indigenous population and 36 per cent in the indigenous population.

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They united and coalesced with the indigenous population.

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United Nations Indigenous peoples and their interests are represented in the United Nations primarily through the mechanisms of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP).

Poverty is also more concentrated in the indigenous population (29 per cent) compared to the non indigenous population (15 per cent).

The Committee is concerned about the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the main policymaking body in Aboriginal affairs consisting of elected indigenous representatives.

As defined, that issue concerns exclusively indigenous peoples and could be addressed by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people.

Portrait of Jedewanadi from the Ye'kwana indigenous community.

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He further recommends that indigenous universities be expanded and strengthened.

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A large number of indigenous organizations and citizens acknowledge that Evo Morales an indigenous and coca grower's leader himself has improved their situation.

The representative of the Indigenous World Association referred to Mr. Salama's references to the Commission's Working Group on the Right to Development, noting that States tended to dominate debate in that forum, making it difficult for civil society to have a say.

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Until now, indigenous students were registered as such only if they studied in schools located in Indigenous areas.

According to the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples, there were 10.1 million Mexicans who spoke an indigenous language and claimed indigenous heritage, representing 9.8 of the total population.

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We defend the creation of a center of reference for indigenous culture.

Read a joint response from indigenous groups about the talks.

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Recognizing also that the promotion of the rights of indigenous people and their cultures and traditions will contribute to the respect for and observance of cultural diversity among all people and nations,

For this reason many indigenous organizations describe the problem of education as one of the fundamental issues affecting the full exercise of their human rights.

A number of indigenous participants highlighted the need to create an effective mechanism to address violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples.

Mexico had also prepared a national programme on human rights further to the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, and was committed to continuous dialogue with indigenous people.

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Primary school completion rates are lower among indigenous populations than among non indigenous populations.

Image In 1492 the indigenous peoples were expelled from their lands.