(j) The abduction of women and children by tribal groups and other militias

It also encompasses a multitude of tribal conflicts inter tribal, as well as intra tribal and clan fights.

For example, while the Koran allows for a measure of female inheritance, tribal custom does not authorize it, which explains the popularity of tribal councils to resolve inheritance problems and cheat women out of their rights.

These leaders already know the tribal chiefs, spiritual leaders, and tribal customs and codes.

Indigenous and tribal women experience the same disadvantages facing their male peers, but often encounter additional barriers related to their gender and age.

Indigenous and tribal peoples are lagging behind other parts of the population in the achievement of the goals in most, if not all, the countries in which they live, and indigenous and tribal women commonly face additional gender based disadvantages and discrimination.

David Logan on tribal leadership

FATA Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Indigenous and tribal peoples often live in pockets of poverty as they, in particular indigenous women, are exposed to social exclusion and structural inequalities.

Tribal leaders have joined the protesters.

Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network

In one particularly notorious case, 40 maliks (tribal leaders) holding a jirga (tribal assembly) were burned in an indiscriminate attack.

Despite the positive elements of community and tribal cohesion and accessibility found in traditional mechanisms, there are serious concerns about how women and children are treated.

Devi's audacity in depicting the plight of a tribal woman not only highlighted the different treatment of women across the social caste system but also the treatment women receive in the world as a whole.

Yemen is a tribal society and tribal sheikhs have a special social status and have been given rights and protection by the government.

With US forces in Iraq now funding both Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in an effort to stabilize the country, conditions for women grow deadlier by the day.

Every tribal unit had its leader called Arifs.

The cattle provided food, currency, and tribal status.

Child labour, education and indigenous and tribal peoples

She was one of the founders of Denotified and Notified Tribal Rights Action Group, whose work among tribal communities spread from Bengal, Gujarat to Maharastra.

You see, now they've actually gone to tribal dynamics.

Indigenous and tribal peoples and poverty reduction strategy papers

(c) Encouraging tribal reconciliation and a culture of peace.

And in both the tribal and the non tribal groups, the bilinguals displayed greater integrative tendency and were less segregation oriented compared to the monolinguals (ibid.).

A number of ILO conventions other than Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries are of relevance to indigenous and tribal peoples.

In tribal societies, this is not easy to bring about.

Tribal emotions are embarrassing, and dangerous when given free reign.

A resurgent Taliban in its tribal areas has destabilized Pakistan.

About 10 senior tribal figures were also among the dead.

Project to Promote ILO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples

Preliminary conclusions concerning Goal 1 and indigenous and tribal peoples

Preliminary conclusions concerning Goal 2 and indigenous and tribal peoples

(xv) The measures taken by the leadership of the Sudan People's Liberation Army Movement to prevent tribal elders, women and youths from participating in civil society gatherings such as the Nuer conference

The methods are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces that have been unleashed by the occupation women strangled and beheaded, and their hands, arms and legs chopped off.

The Committees therefore seek to bring together all sections of the community including teachers, tribal leaders, religious leaders, women, police, soldiers, judges, and businesspeople to develop ways of resolving conflicts non violently.

India Unheard shows us two different festivities in different areas of the country where married women from tribal communities can, for one day only, play and dance in public without risking censure.

The Committee welcomes the State party's ratification in 2002 of International Labour Organization Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) concerning indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries.

Restoring security in Mali requires dialogues between village and tribal leaders.

INDISCO programme promotion of decent work for indigenous and tribal peoples

Almost the entire tribal belt along the Pakistan Afghanistan border is suffering.

He comes from a small tribe in the larger Hashid tribal confederation.

The !Kung medicine men effect a cure by performing a tribal dance.

There were 15 tribal countries out of 54 located in the region.

ILO Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries

The Taliban is spread throughout the NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.